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Actuaries are among the few people in this confusing world who actually relish confusion. They want to make sense of trends, reversals, discontinuities, and the like. But will the mother of all discontinuities, looming in a recess just over the horizon, cause past trends to be irrelevant, the reversals to be minor blips, and the discontinuities to become the new norm?
by Jeffrey C. Harper
Dennis C. Martin
Ben H. Wolzenski
The author of Robinson Crusoe was neither a mathematician nor a scholar, but his own firsthand experience with risk and loss encouraged him to venture an opinion on the brave new world of insurance and pensions.
by Daniel D. Skwire
The original prediction in 2000 was that the soaring government costs that characterized much of the 20th century would continue increasing but at a much slower rate. It’s been eight years. How do the numbers hold up?
by Fred Kilbourne
Health care reform is shaping up to be a major issue in the presidential election. The Canadians have had some time to work out the bugs in their system. Could it, or something like it, work south of the 49th parallel?
by Donald M. Armstrong
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