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2018 Year in Review
2018 Year in Review The year everything changed Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual […]
The Fate of All Municipal Governments – Look to Peoria, Illinois
The Fate of All Municipal Governments – Look to Peoria, Illinois The system we have is totally corrupt and it outright UNSUSTAINABLE!!!! In Illinois, the city of Peoria has been forced to eliminate 22 firefighter and 16 police positions even after they made 27 layoffs earlier this year. Besides eliminating employees, they are now looking at adding […]
Bundesbank warns of Coming Pension Crisis
Bundesbank warns of Coming Pension Crisis The Bundesbank has come out warning that there is a German pension crisis. They have proposed that states raise the pension tax and that they should gradually increase the retirement age because the life expectancy in the future has risen. Central Bank President, Jens Weidmann, has stated that he is generally in […]
Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity?
Will Your Retirement Efforts Achieve Escape Velocity? Sadly, most of us will outlive our savings The concept of ‘retirement’, of enjoying decades of work-free leisure in your golden years, is a relatively new construct. It’s only been around for a few generations. In fact, the current version of the relaxed, golfing/RV-touring/country club retirement lifestyle only […]
Here’s Why the Market Must Continue to Rip Higher — Everything Depends On It
Here’s Why the Market Must Continue to Rip Higher — Everything Depends On It Rarely discussed, corporate and government pensions, are barreling towards disaster. For some reason, there is an assumption that what ails the government, with their $20 trillion in debt, isn’t something that ordinary folk need to worry about. After all, times are good […]
JP Morgan Expert: True Debt, Pension, Healthcare Payments Would Consume Half of Illinois Revenue, Bankruptcy Option Needed
JP Morgan Expert: True Debt, Pension, Healthcare Payments Would Consume Half of Illinois Revenue, Bankruptcy Option Needed Michael Cembalest is Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. His report released yesterday, The ARC and the Covenants, updates his earlier research comparing the percentage of state revenues needed to pay interest on […]
Pensions Now Depend on Bubbles Never Popping (But All Bubbles Pop)
Pensions Now Depend on Bubbles Never Popping (But All Bubbles Pop) We’re living in a fantasy, folks. Bubbles pop, period. The nice thing about the “wealth” generated by bubbles is it’s so easy: no need to earn wealth the hard way, by scrimping and saving capital and investing it wisely. Just sit back and let central […]
Government Are Just Going Broke
Governments Are Just Going Broke The events in the Senate concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh’s illustrates that career politicians are destroying our way of life because they are so intent on just beating the opposite party that nobody is paying attention to the real problems we are staring at straight in its eyes. We face a […]
How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck
How the Crisis Caused a Pension Train Wreck We’ve been writing for some time that one of the consequences of the protracted super-low interest rate regime of the post crisis era was to create a world of hurt for savers, particularly long-term savers like pension funds, life insurers and retirees. Even though the widespread underfunding […]
Another Way Of Looking At The Pension Crisis, As “A Stealth Mortgage on Your House”
Another Way Of Looking At The Pension Crisis, As “A Stealth Mortgage on Your House” Money manager Rob Arnott and finance professor Lisa Meulbroek have run the numbers on underfunded pension plans and come up with an interesting – and highly concerning – new angle: That they impose a “stealth mortgage” on homeowners. Here’s how […]
Spotlight Danville, Illinois, My Home Town: Bankrupt
Spotlight Danville, Illinois, My Home Town: Bankrupt Danville Illinois is bankrupt. That’s not an official announcement yet, but it will be. Pensions are at the heart of it. I have talked about my relationship with Danvile before, but here is a brief recap. I grew up in Danville, Illinois, the home of Chuckles (the candy), […]
America The Insolvent
Satansgoalie America The Insolvent A reckoning is due. One the elites are already readying for. Watching the world these days, I’m experiencing the same fury that rises up from my gut when the driver in the car ahead me is weaving drunkenly, endangering everyone on the road. Fury is a normal and rational human response […]
The latest casualty in the global pension catastrophe is…
The latest casualty in the global pension catastrophe is… In the year 6 AD, the Roman emperor Augustus set up a special trust fund known as the aerarium militare, or military treasury, to fund retirement pensions for Rome’s legionnaires. Now, these military pensions had already existed for several centuries in Rome. But the money to […]
The Pension Train Has No Seat Belts
The Pension Train Has No Seat Belts In describing various economic train wrecks these last few weeks, I may have given the wrong impression about trains. I love riding the train on the East Coast or in Europe. They’re usually a safe and efficient way to travel. And I can sit and read and work, […]
The Pension Crisis Will Break Up the EU
The Pension Crisis Will Break Up the EU The German public broadcast agency ARD is proposing structural changes. Due to the low-interest rates, the ECB has placed the agency in hard times with its pensions. Karola Wille, the director, has called for structural reform to reduce costs. The proposal centers on technological change to increase efficiency […]
