Stealing Retirement Security
Imagine waking up one day and discovering that your private pension or 401(k) account (which has earned an average double-digit rate of return for 18 years) has been confiscated by the government. This...
View ArticleA Retirement to Come Home To
It looks as if pensions aren’t going to be enough to secure a good retirement for most Americans. According to a study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), less than half of men (42.6...
View ArticleFixing Your Retirement Account
I came across an informative in article in the Wall Street Journal this week, “How to Fix Your Life in 2009,” (read article here), The premise is that frugality is now in; spending less and saving more...
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free advice how to get your ex boyfriend back and what to say ex girlfriend to get her back or can i really get my ex boyfriend back if he is dating someone else. signs wife wants back together can i...
View ArticleState “Hybrid” Pension Plans are Compassionate, Progressive and Good for the...
I figured by the time I read an article about government employers taking a page from the private sector, I would be too old to read the small print and too senile to care. But low and behold, the...
View ArticlePension Funds: What Not to Do
A word to the states and the people: ignore what the federal government is doing in terms of how to manage a budget. Among the dire predictions about the solvency of state and local employee pension...
View ArticleScaring Seniors…Again
Okay, let me get this straight: President Obama announced today that if a deal on the deb buy priligy without a prescription t ceiling is not reached he cannot guarantee that seniors’ Social Security...
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Interest Rates…the Good, the Bad, and the Ineffective
win men order viagra width=”240″ height=”159″ />If Dr. Phil were an economist, he might ask the question, “How are those interest rates working for ya?” It seems that low interest rates are quite...
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Chicago Plays Politics with Retirement Pensions
If Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Ca.) assault weapons bill is not enough of a kneejerk reaction to the Newtown shooting, Chicago is playing its part in contributing to the lack of common sense measures as...
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Worse than I Imagined (Part II): Medicare
When I retired, Medicare became my primary health insurance, fully covered by American taxpayers (and federal debt-holders), while Anthem/Blue Cross became my secondary health insurance, fully covered...
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EPI States the Obvious in a New Report About Retirement Savings
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute rehashes what many already know about retirement savers. This is no surprise coming from an organization that has opposed self-savings initiatives and has...
View ArticleThe High Marginal Cost of the Social Security Benefits Tax
In yesterday’s Dallas Morning News, financial columnist Scott Burns discussed the hard-hitting Social Security benefits tax. Using Turbo-Tax, he demonstrates how middle-income seniors (those earning...
View ArticleA Quick Guide to the Public Pension Crisis
The NCPA has written numerous publications on the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and possible reforms. We have also addressed unfunded liabilities of state and local public pensions. But...
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