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April 2015

April 07, 2015

So what about the Trust Fund, anyway?

Just wanted to highlight something from my write-up yesterday on Falling Short: the Social Security...

April 06, 2015

From the library: Falling Short, by Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth

This book, subtitled "The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It," was published...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

From the library: Social Security Works! by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson

The subtitle to the book pretty much says it all, "Why Social Security Isn't Going...

March 05, 2015

Some links on retirement and related issues

Too many open browser windows, so it's time so share some of the links that...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Data exploring: the Census Explorer

Did you know that you can look at household income by census data, mapped? It's...

February 02, 2015

Parking a link: on Social Security pay replacement rates

For your reading pleasure, the outcome of a google search, and I've only skimmed, not...

February 01, 2015

When should you begin collecting Social Security? (plus a hypothetical)

One of the pieces of advice that's floating around at the moment, with respect to...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

How did I miss this? A new pension plan in Canada

Just a link, for now: on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. And it's a proposal,...

January 12, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part Three

So yesterday I told you all about a couple things I'd read on the question...

January 11, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part Two

OK, "Part One" was just an invitation for comments. And I spent most of my...

January 10, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part One

So this weekend's project is to write about a book I've been reading and to...

January 06, 2015

December 2014

December 20, 2014

A new “three-legged stool” for retirement

Yes, so it's a bit presumptuous of me to announce this, but it's something I've...

December 08, 2014

The Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program

which was passed by the legislature last week, looks, on balance, to be a good...

December 01, 2014

Is “work, save, move” the solution to America’s pension crisis?

So says the "Buttonwood" columnist at the Economist, which everyone is now tweeting. This is...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Why should employers provide retirement benefits? (A semi-rhetorical question)

A little bit ago, I observed that in the same way as there's a tax...

August 19, 2014

From the Library: Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis, by James J. Russell

This one falls into the category of, "if this book can get published, why can't I...

August 09, 2014

Are Americans’ retirement plans doomed, or is this survey a bunch of baloney?

This is where Twitter works reasonably well: Virginia Postrel linked to a blog post in...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

We should get employers out of the [fill in the blank] business

Those of us who have not gone into an apocalyptic panic at the Hobby Lobby...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Marco Rubio’s Big Social Security reform plan: meh

(I'm currently reading The Anguish of the Jews, and will augment my prior post on...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

Should retirement savings be mandatory? It’s complicated

Megan McArdle has an article out discussing an opinion piece in the New York Times...

February 2014

February 23, 2014

“USA Retirement Fund” nomenclature

Third post in three days on these plans, as I try to figure out how...

February 22, 2014

January 2014

January 05, 2014

Parking a link: on Social Security

Here's a piece by Andrew Biggs, reacting to a piece by Elizabeth Warren, on Social...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Social Security as a human right?

That's what Mexico is proposing, as reported in various news reports and here, on the...