The World Economic Forum predicts a USD 400 trillion pensions shortfall by 2050
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#3I get how an excess of pensioners (not enough workers) in an economy can be a problem.
I get how an excess of unemployed people (people without a job) can be a problem.
What I don't get is how both can be a problem at the same time.
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#4How can a shortfall happen, technically? I mean, why not just print enough money to inflate it, to cut real values of pensions to make ends of the system meet? After all pensioners aren't likely to riot.
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#5On a related note, Illinois debt was just downgraded partially because of their pension debt.
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#6How can a shortfall happen, technically? I mean, why not just print enough money to inflate it, to cut real values of pensions to make ends of the system meet? After all pensioners aren't likely to riot.
Pensions don't riot, they vote.
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#7How can a shortfall happen, technically? I mean, why not just print enough money to inflate it, to cut real values of pensions to make ends of the system meet? After all pensioners aren't likely to riot.
They won't riot but they will vote.
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#8How can a shortfall happen, technically? I mean, why not just print enough money to inflate it, to cut real values of pensions to make ends of the system meet? After all pensioners aren't likely to riot.
Because that solution doesn't give money to manage now, to the bosses of "Jacques Goulet, President, Health & Wealth at Mercer, the lead collaborator for this initiative".
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#9I don't get something: if the point is to assure pensioners a pretty similar life quality to the one they have today, with shouldn't be that by 2050 it would be easy and cheap ?
How does that go into the calculations , if att all ?
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#10In the US, one initiative that should help tremendously is increasing the limit to all tax advantaged retirement contributions, and future periodic adjustments to inflation.