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We’re Reaching the Beginning of the End of the Pension Fund Crisis
We’re Reaching the Beginning of the End of the Pension Fund Crisis Photo by Bank of England | CC BY | Photoshopped from original The pension crisis has been escalating for quite some time, and accounting for pension shortfalls seems next to impossible for state governments. The shortfall between pension assets and liabilities is a major […]
Outlaw Government Pensions? The Hunt for Endless Taxes
Outlaw Government Pensions? The Hunt for Endless Taxes The commentary that has appeared in Forbes calls for the only solution is to outlaw pensions. This is actually what will happen. Because there is no resolution, the government pensions will demand to raise taxes and then there is never any reform in government so the end […]
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 […]
Pension / Retirement Crisis Is Becoming An Underfunded ‘Tsunami’ According to The SEC
Pension / Retirement Crisis Is Becoming An Underfunded ‘Tsunami’ According to The SEC We have detailed this problem over the past 3-4 years warning people about how bad the pensions around the nation have become nothing more than another ponzi scheme. Most, if not all, state, local and federal pension programs are underfunded by 40% […]
Beware of the Real Debt Crisis on the Horizon – not the BS on TV
Beware of the Real Debt Crisis on the Horizon – not the BS on TV We have to come to the reality that from 2019 onward, we are headed into a Pension Crisis that will be serious. Many are starting to yell about the debt crisis. They lump on private debt and yell its a […]
Chicago Hopes To “Solve” Record Pension Deficit With Creative Solution: More Debt
Chicago Hopes To “Solve” Record Pension Deficit With Creative Solution: More Debt John Maynard Keynes would be thrilled to hear about the brilliant solution Chicago has come up with to help solve its pension deficit: issue a $10 billion bond and take on more debt. Chicago’s pension deficit has been a problem that we’ve been covering […]
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 […]
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 […]
Illinois to Impose 1% Property Tax on Top of Everything Annually for 30 Years
Illinois to Impose 1% Property Tax on Top of Everything Annually for 30 Years In Illinois is a State that should just commit suicide and be emerged into surrounding states. It is following the EXACT pattern as the fall of the city of Rome itself. Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital from Rome to […]
The Fed is Raising Rates Because of the Pension Crisis
The Fed is Raising Rates Because of the Pension Crisis QUESTION: The Fed says it will raise rates two or three times more this year. My question is this: If the stock market is crashing, why are they still raising rates? HW ANSWER: The Fed is raising rates because they must be NORMALIZED given the […]
The Pension Crisis Coming to a Boil
The Pension Crisis Coming to a Boil The BBC has come out and reported that three million savers in Britain in what is known as final-salary pension schemes only have a 50/50 chance of receiving the payouts they were promised, a study has concluded. We issued a special report on the rising Pension Crisis and […]
Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable
Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable There is a really big crisis coming. Think about it this way. After 8 years and a 230% stock market advance the pension funds of Dallas, Chicago, and Houston are in severe trouble. But it isn’t just these municipalities […]
The Ticking Time Bomb That Will Wipe Out Virtually Every Pension Fund In America
The Ticking Time Bomb That Will Wipe Out Virtually Every Pension Fund In America Are millions of Americans about to see the big, juicy pensions that they were counting on to fund their golden years go up in flames in the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history? When Bloomberg published an editorial entitled “Pension Crisis […]
The Pension Crisis is Global
The Pension Crisis is Global The worldwide pension crisis is the next great notch in the belt of the collapse of socialism. If anyone in the private sector promised workers pensions and did not fund them, they would go to jail and be labelled as a fraud. Yet, this is standard operating procedure for government. […]
Asset Recycling – Robbing Pensions to Cover Govt. Costs
Asset Recycling – Robbing Pensions to Cover Govt. Costs We are facing a pension crisis, thanks to negative interest rates that have destroyed pension funds. Pension funds are a tempting pot of money that government cannot keep its hands out of. The federal government of Canada, for example, is looking to reduce the cost of […]
