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What's to blame for the problems at Sears? Amazon? Bad management? CEO and primary shareholder Eddie Lampert has another idea: It's the company's own retirees.
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If your retirement plans consist entirely of that pension you've been promised, it's time to start looking elsewhere.
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If your retirement plans consist entirely of that pension you've been promised, it's time to start looking elsewhere.
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Chicagoans have no idea how much pension debt Illinois politicians have placed upon them, a staggering total of $130,000 billion, which leaves each household on the hook for $125,000.
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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
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied throughout Russia to protest plans to substantially hike the age at which Russian men and women can receive their state retirement pensions.
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I've been talking a lot about the looming pension crisis… My short thesis is, if you're depending on a pension for your retirement, it's time to start looking elsewhere.
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The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a better method of analysing the impact of public sector pensions on state and local budgets.
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A pension crisis looms as shown by excellent charts from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
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In describing various economic train wrecks these last few weeks, I may have given the wrong impression about trains.
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A pension crisis looms as shown by excellent charts from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
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Brexit, Quitaly and Grexit. Debt Defaults, Stock Shocks, Bond Bubbles, Properties Popping, Derivative Defaults and Banks Busting.
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Let's take a momentary reprieve from Italian insolvency to discuss the sorry state of affairs in Illinois.
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An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last month's pension event cosponsored by The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
