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Massive Taxpayer Backlash Over Pension Crisis Is Coming

Pension plans are a bubble that is now bursting wide open ... $64.5 billion to pension plans in fiscal 2005-06, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:03:00

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Worried About Getting Soaked on a Rainy Day? Try Umbrella Liability Insurance

With the slow death of company pension plans and the paltry compensations offered by the US government’s social security program, ... of turning your real estate into liquid assets? Second mortgages, reverse mortgages, and home equity ... in exchange for a percentage of however much their home increases in value over the years. To qualify [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 14:54:09

ERE Keynoter Says Economy Offers Recruiters “Seat At The Table”

Did you catch former CNN anchor and business reporter Jan Hopkins this morning giving her keynote live from the ERE Expo, here in Hollywood Beach, ... workers whose options and 401(k) plans have taken a big hit; Compensation plans need to be rethought ... who have stable jobs; Growing interest in unions, fueled in part by the security of pension plans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 16:24:28

PS: Tell me I'm not the only bitter one in this crap economy!!!

Oh how i love me some reader mail! This one comes from a fellow budgets lover who just wanted to know that she's not the only crazy out ... then what they where asking, it is a 1500 sqft home, hardwood floors, built in 06, beautiful kitchen ... , and he invests in the states pension plan. We have nice cars that we can afford and both [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:04:27

Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice

(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... insurance, no Canada Pension Plan, no job-accident coverage. The Ontario government views them as self [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36

Personal Finance For Freelancers, a Four Part Series

This series was written by a friend of mine, Sara Freitas Maltaverne, and originally published on April 7, 2008 ... with a team of translators to provide the same service in the major European languages. You can find ... t what it used to be! Gone are the days of 40-year careers with a single employer—and the generous pension plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:00:18

Friday morning links

TOP STORIES Single-Family Home Starts in U.S. Fall to 26-Year Low - Bloomberg Buffett says he's buying U.S ... ? - Reuters Home Builder Confidence Sets Record Low in October - HousingWire FED/TREASURY/BANKING Rate ... Tight to Bailout Money - NY Times INTERNATIONAL Pension plans show worst quarterly drop in decade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:51:00

Announcement: Notes on Social Security to become part of NewMajority.com

Over the next week or so this blog will transition to become part of a new group blog – NewMajority.com – founded by my AEI colleague David Frum ... . In one sense, this may seem rather narrow – after all, there a many more issues than entitlements ... government will become – in Paul Krugman's phrase – a pension plan with an army. Until we can't even [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:31:00

Canada elections 2008, Part II

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Part I of the p2pnet party platforms feature outlines Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green and Bloc Quebecois policies ... they pay. Overhaul the broken Canada Pension Plan with a new Personal Income Security Account ... Family-friendly Childcare Allowance—$1,000 a month for families where one parent stays home to raise [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 13:19:49

Bail Out Entrepreneurs, Not Big Auto

So, the Auto Bailout bombed in the Senate. Good. (Never thought I’d be writing about it in Venture Files . . ... clean — all stockholders, creditors, pension plans, and — most important of all, the unions ... s time to clean house, start over. I feel for the folks who will lose jobs, but sorry — [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 16:48:45

Necessary Lessons for Motor City

In his second-to-last State of the Union Address, President Ronald Reagan spoke about how Washington, D.C ... are so encumbered by big labor that they are no longer automobile companies with benefit and pension plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 07:09:30

Everything new is old again

Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker explains how and why they screwed us: ... , the pension plan should be regional, spread across the many small auto-parts makers, electrical ... . "They organized a trade association to stop the plan. In the business press, they actually said [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 16:12:18

A worthless apology to Equitable annuity holders

This is a report from the Guardian newspaper about the fall in value of the pension annuity of Mrs ... her £110,000 pension fund into an Equitable Life plan when she retired in 1998 aged 60. She tied ... get by 2010. She has had to buy a cheaper home, moving from a comfortable home to a tiny bungalow because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:08:52

Sharing The Pain In California

In San Diego, Mayor Jerry Sanders is seeking cuts in services, fee hikes, and water rationing ... wholeheartedly. Jobs should be privatized and pension plans modified for starters. In addition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:47:07

Business News AOL Canada

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Date: 2009-01-09 21:25:01

Open Letter To Congress On Sharing The Pain

President Obama has called for sacrifice and sharing. I wholeheartedly agree ... is a basket case. States believed the housing party would last forever and failed to fund pension plans while [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:37:46

USA or United Socialist States of America (USSA)?

Date: 2008-10-27 23:53:07

No Exits on this Super-Highway!

No Exits on this Super-Highway! ZahirEbrahim Project Humanbeingsfirst September 30, 2008 | Revised October 01, 2008 Addendum Why Bluff Martial Law? ... assault by Wall Street on the meager savings in 401K and pension plans of whatever remains of middle [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 22:25:00

Good News

There's a change, but it didn't come as a complete surprise considering how packed the Keys have been with cars and gasoline around $1.80 a gallon ... plans for new hires, like offering no more plan and giving people 401(k) fake pensions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:00:00

Parking pays for pensions?

By Fester: Pittsburgh has several large financial problems ... would allow the city not to worry about the pension plans for a while. That at least would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:29:25

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The ticking time bomb of overpromised, underfunded public pension plans has finally exploded. Here are a few headlines to consider: SAN DIEGO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The pension fund of San Diego [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 20:05:55

Open Letter To Congress On Sharing The Pain

President Obama has called for sacrifice and sharing. I wholeheartedly agree ... the housing party would last forever and failed to fund pension plans while squandering money [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 10:28:00

Which is costliest O.C. city for businesses?

Seal Beach is the most expensive Orange County city for businesses, ... Valley 18 $ La Habra 16 $ Tustin 20 $ Uninc. Orange Co. 25 $ Lake Forest 26 $ Laguna ... , health care and overly robust pension plans, local cities Larry Kosmont Larry Kosmont are … [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 13:30:04

Post Divorce Finances: 7 Steps to Rebuilding Your Financial House

By Nora Dunn My, how life changes when you close one chapter of your life and open a new one ... credit card insurance pension funds through work health care plans through work If you are required [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 04:06:55

Davao Itinerary

Yeay, I will be in Davao on Friday for a short vacation with my family. We’ll stay in a pension house for 4 days, 3 nights. We actually wanted to stay in the Pearl Farm Beach Resort except that we have a very tight budget ... . No plans on the first day yet, we’ll probably visit Eden park to try their zipline ride or try wildriver [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:12:42

Dante's Hell is Alive and Well in Gaza

~ Dante Alighieri could never have imagined circles as hellish as the wards of the damned in Jabalia's hospitals ... Aviv hasn't even granted him a pension, only a series of missiles from land and air onto his house. He suffers from shrapnel wounds all over his body. I ask him where he plans to go after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:20:00

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