Description: Spreadsheet with documentation for exhibits to the May 2007 report: The Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life insurance Industry

Description: This session will demonstrate the advantages of approaches to duration matching and cash flow matching. Plan examples and sponsor’s objectives will be presented. An overview of when to choose one approach versus a blend of the two approaches will also be covered.

Description: Argues that by shifting the risk from the insureds - financial institutions - to the insurer - the federal government, we affect the behavior of the insureds. Once the consequences of the risk are absorbed by someone else, the insureds can assume more risk. This must be changed.

Description: Analyzes whether or not it is a legitimate function of government to regulate financial institutions.

Description: Argues that the suppression or mitigation of small and intermediate economic collapses means that much bigger collapses will occur instead.

Description: Successful healthcare reform: First, it must help that must keep healthy people healthy. Second, it must help people mitigate or eliminate the health-risks associated with unhealthy lifestyle behavior choices, and Third, it must ensure the provision of evidence-based care to those who are ill.

Description: This essay highlights a view that many have for meeting these goals is one of a two-tiered system. The first tier in this system is a universal one controlled by the federal government, while the second tier is a private sector supplementing the first tier. The remainder of this paper will examine this two-tiered system and how various stakeholders in today’s system will be affected.

Description: Investment Fallacies: The Best Model Doesn't Win

Description: Investment Fallacies: The "Dollar Bill" Fallacy

Description: Summary of House of Representatives Tri-Committee Bill – H.R. 3200.