Andrew Samwick on pension reform

by on March 20, 2006 at 12:34 pm in Economics | Permalink

Here are the gory details.  Best excerpt:

"It takes a better economist than me to understand how reducing contributions by that much is going to protect benefits and put the system on a sounder footing," said Jeremy I. Bulow, an economist at Stanford University.

That’s actually funny, since there are no demonstrably better economists than Jeremy Bulow.

Robert Schwartz March 20, 2006 at 2:41 pm

On the other hand, pension reform is a deck chairs on the Titanic exercise.

Marvin Stephanson April 6, 2006 at 3:25 pm

It is very obvious the business lobbyists have had their way with Congress regarding pension reform. This bill is loaded with pork for business. This sausage making process has a very rotten odor to it.

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