By Bob Rietz
My father turned on his television one night 30 years ago and watched the fall of the Berlin Wall.
End Paper
By Bob Rietz
Suppose you lived in Sacramento or some other city in California and the state legislature decided that people who lived there could only fly on one specific airline?
By Sam Gutterman
What’s going on with fertility and mortality, the fundamental building blocks of demography, the endpoints of life?
By Bob Reitz
My father was a photoengraver. That process produced the pictures and advertisements that appeared in newspapers and magazines during the first 75 years of the 20th century.
By Sam Gutterman
After seeing Coco, an animated movie about Mexico’s Day of the Dead and about the importance of family ties stretching back generations, and reading Bob Reitz’s “End Paper” column on legacy and family history, some snippets about my past might shed some light on how I view the past, both professionally and personally.
By Bob Rietz
We recently (finally?) sold our mountain cabin and moved to a condo within walking distance of downtown Asheville, N.C.
By Sam Gutterman
I have often thought about the proper role of judgment in actuarial work.
