by confoundedinterest17 As Congress debates their $3.5 trillion spend-a-thon and their human infrastructure bills, we need to bear in mind that while US Treasury debt is at $28.863 trillion (and growing really fast), the US has promised $157.738 TRILLION in unfunded benefits …
BY JOHN RUBINO Jim Rickards: In the next financial panic, “gold will be going up $100 a day, $1,000 a week” … Noam Chomsky on the Russiagate “farce” … Glenn Greenwald is vindicated by Mueller Report … Rick Rule: In …
by Michael Snyder The United States is on a path to financial ruin, and everyone can see what is happening, but nobody can seem to come up with a way to stop it. According to the U.S. Treasury, the federal …
via alec.org: Unfunded liabilities in public pension plans continue to loom over state governments nationwide. If net pension assets are determined using more realistic investment return assumptions, pension funding gaps are significantly wider than even the large sums reported …
by Jim Quinn This will surely end well 4th quarter market meltdown was enough to increase the total pension funding deficit by $700 BILLION can you imagine what a real market downturn would do?? pic.twitter.com/WYtJDJSG2e — steph pomboy (@spomboy) March …
via fullmeasure: – It has between 3 to 5 million illegal immigrants. – 1/3 of the nation’s welfare recipients. – 1 in 4 of America’s homeless population. – 1 in 5 Californians lives in poverty. – Its public schools rank in …
via confoundedinterest: Chicago IL (should be ILL) is the poster child for an insane pension program (mostly to municipal workers and public school teachers). But not only in the city of Chicago, but the state of ILLinois as well. Consider that …
by John Rubino Yesterday an entire California town burned down. Paridise, CA has (had) 27,000 residents and over 1,000 buildings, and now it’s pretty much gone. A fire started nearby on a windy day and within hours everything was ash and cinders. …
by SpontaneousDisorder https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/fed-accounting-change-boosts-unfunded-pension-obligations-chart In case you missed it, the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Financial Accounts report last week included a change to accounting for state and local pension-fund programs. The central bank revised its data for unfunded liabilities, applying a “projected benefit …
by Anthony B Sanders (Bloomberg) Global debt rose to a record $233 trillion in the third quarter of 2017, more than $16 trillion higher from end-2016, according to an analysis by the Institute of International Finance. Private non-financial sector debt hit all-time highs …
Larry Lindsay, 5/19/15: “Unfunded entitlemt liabilities take US Federal debt oblig’s closer to 300%, not 100%, which is > Greece’s debt.” A. Greenspan: “We’re not getting like Greece, we’re getting like Illinois.” Richard Fisher: “[Laughs] Which is worse – Illinois …