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I’ve not had a good “How Not To Be A Dumbass” post in a while.
I was going to put this in the next Taxing Tuesday, but this is so stupid, I can’t let it wait.
ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IS IMPORTANT
For those who don’t want to listen to the...
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In November 2019, I looked at a press release announcing a proposed reform/bailout for multiemployer pensions. It addresses multiple problems with MEPs, some of which have been entirely ignored in the other major MEP bailout proposal out there, specifically, the Butch-Lewis Act.
Well, Congress seemed to...
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Well, supposedly.
I guess all the docile French just fall in line because, ya know, process.
About that “falling in line”….
Baton-wielding police...
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I last updated this in 2019. So why not do a new calculation, now that we’ve got a slate of old, white men (and an old, white woman, and some younger folks who we don’t really care about survivability for).
Prior posts of similar type:
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From Teresa Ghilarducci: Working Longer Is A Lame Answer For Failing Pensions
Today, I am going to be fisking this piece. If you want to understand my motivation, skip to the bottom of my post. Or check out this video in which I explain my highest value.
Here we...
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Elizabeth Warren has a plan for reining in private equity companies... and a lot of their money comes from institutional investors like public pensions.by meep
While I have generally been against divestment policies for public pensions (especially when they come from outside parties with no fiduciary duties), there are some sectors where divestment makes a lot of sense.
Let me start with private prisons because this is actually one of the strongest divestment cases for government...
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Yesterday, Truth in Accounting released their tenth annual State of the States report. The full PDF of the report can be found here.
Using the data in the report, I’ve made some visualizations – first everybody, and then, some key states.
SURPLUS AND DEFICIT
Using the...
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A headline about Trump tweets being a risk factor to be considered for Calstrs investing sets me off...by meep
I will be getting to my regular depressing content on U.S. pensions another day, but let’s take a look at a political fracas in Japan, regarding a report on retirement.
Let’s start with the controversy, and move on from there:
NUMBERS, NUMBERS, WHO’S GOT THE NUMBERS?
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