POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

A Meepie Blogsgiving

Wherein I acknowledge all the people who have helped me with respect to public pension blogging.

First, Jeremy Gold, a pension actuary, who has written quite a bit on the theoretical (and practical) issues with regards to actuarial work in the pensions field, whether private or public. Once I read through his stuff, I became a Jeremy Gold acolyte, and spread his gospel at The Actuarial Outpost.

Another pension actuary, John Bury, who I first read at nj.com but is now blogging on his own at BuryPensions. He has mainly covered NJ pensions [which will implode first.... NJ or Illinois? It's thrilling! ...if you're not a pensioner or taxpayer for NJ or IL], but has also looked more broadly.

Jack Dean at Pension Tsunami - the go-to source for news stories on pension issues. He and Marcia Fritz head Californians for Pension Reform.

Ed Mendel at Calpensions, who does original reporting on California pension issues, and really gets into the nitpicking number-crunching details.

Frank Keegan at the Franklin Center, who posts on public finance and pensions.

Leo Kolivakis at Pension Pulse, who gives a more international perspective on pension issues.

E.J. McMahon at the Empire Center, which covers NY public policy issues.

The good people at Illinois Is Broke, who will supply all sorts of interesting Chicago stories, amongst others, over the next couple years... I can just feel it.

Mish of Global Economic Trend Analysis, who covers economic issues in general, but has often looked at the state of public pensions and public finance.

Steven Greenhut, who writes columns all over the place and most recently the author of Plunder! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, etc. who covers all sorts of public union shenanigans.

Not named -- my mystery supporter who has been feeding me bucketloads of stories, many of which don't get sucked up in my daily news alerts and twitter searches. He knows who he is, and I thank him muchly.

And of course Dan and our merry POWIPping crew.

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

Meep

Meep is a member of the Irish Catholic mafia, having a suspiciously high number of green-eyed, red-haired friends. While she doesn’t have red hair herself [except when she goes into the sun (rare for any vampire)], she does have green eyes. She’s a raving Papist and is a life actuary on the side [i.e., she counts dead people]. An amateur pain-in-the-ass [willing to go pro!], she likes covering retirement, mortality, math, and education issues.