As reported in a new article for the Wall Street Journal, “Pension Gaps Loom Larger,” David Reilly notes that based on unrealistic return assumptions, the nation’s largest public employee pensions could face big shortfalls: “Many of America’s largest pension funds are sticking to expectations of fat returns on their investments even after a decade…
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It must be a condition of employment that a journalist who writes about the current recession include in his article the statement, “consumption makes up more than two-thirds of the economy” or “consumption spending accounts for 70 percent of GDP.” This seemingly simple, factual statement, however, is nearly always intended to carry some explanatory…
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