What is it about banking executives that have become mega wealthy thanks to crony capitalism and their annual pompous ‘Letter to Shareholders’?
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I’ve got another plan, this time it will work
Less than a fortnight after releasing his first plan, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced another plan.
Continue readingActuaries, doctors, demographers, politicians, drug approval agencies – are you curious about this?
It’s a bit odd, don’t you think? Australia vs World experience. Why would higher rates of covid19 vaccination in Australia coincide with higher rates of mortality? Curious.
Continue readingWalls, windows, amplitudes and newspapers
The wall opposite my favourite corner chair, the chair in which I sit to read the morning newspaper, has one of those long windows in the shape of a letterbox. Shallow, but wide, it traverses the wall and provides a wide angle view of the eastern horizon. It is a rough measuring guide to the passing of the summer.
Continue readingDay D
In June 1944, the allied forces of UK, US, Canada, NZ and Australia launched what what was then, and remains, the largest most grave and probably most risky seaborne invasion of a foreign continent. D day.
Continue readingThe deafening silence
Excess mortality. An actuarial phrase, if ever you wanted one. It means the number of people dying in excess of what would have happened if prior mortality trends had continued.
Continue readingBasement software coder tries to extrapolate knowledge of computer code to saving humanity. Not entirely successful.
A co-founder of a behemoth software business, Mike Cannon-Brookes, is in the media now after a spectacular collapse of his dream extension cord business.
Continue reading‘Scientists say’ losing effectiveness, scientists say
For decades, newspaper editors have loved to append ‘, scientists say’ to the headline of any story that they felt could do with a credibility boost. It was code to their readers: you must not argue with this story’s conclusions. The same applied to documentaries on pay TV.
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Australian Actuary 