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View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Latest municipal, state pension data show crash continues
Even as actuaries argued at their annual meeting here about the exact speed of our public pension crash, how to slow it with the least economic damage and who is going to take the hit, U.S. Census...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Fed screams softly in warning about public pension crisis
This is what it sounds like when the Federal Reserve Bank screams: “Much has been written about the various headwinds restraining economic activity over the near term. The post COMMENTARY: Fed screams...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: This plan could save municipal, state workers’ pension checks
Hey, young public employees, what are you going to do when your pension checks bounce after you paid in for decades? That is what will happen in many — maybe all — states and municipalities sooner or...
View ArticleCOMMENTARY: Study Calls For ‘Drastic Reform’ of Public Pension Regulation
Politicians are forcing public pensions to take more risks with taxpayer money and public workers’ retirements. Recent accounting reforms actually will make the crisis worse, according to a study just...
View ArticleThe People Shouldn’t Get to Vote on Public Pensions?
Reality is closing in on public pension liars and deniers trying to keep docile government workers and taxpayers in the dark about how catastrophic our public pension crisis actually is. The post The...
View ArticleCities and States Bleed Out While Politicians Dither
If our states and municipalities were trauma victims, they would be bleeding out while doctors argued about injuries. The post Cities and States Bleed Out While Politicians Dither appeared first on...
View ArticleSEC Report Reveals House of Bonds Turned Into Den of Thieves
The word “taxpayer” appears only 14 times in 165 pages of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Report on the Municipal Securities Market released Tuesday. Only two of those mentions refer to...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Get Warning About Muni Bond Bind
National Conference of State Legislatures members meeting here ended their first day with even more bad news about municipal bonds, debt interest that takes more than 20 cents of every dollar they...
View ArticleRyan, Christie should check Dutch public pension cuts
Vice presidential candidate Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put on cheery faces for the faithful this week at the Republic National convention, but both know the...
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