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Mark Perry, FEE
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Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Strong Euro Is a Headache for the ECB
Daniel Lacalle, Mises Institute
Charles Blahous, E21
The recently-enacted federal government spending law established a select congressional committee to craft a federal response to the escalating crisis of multiemployer pension underfunding. The committee has its work cut out for it with a particularly thorny policy challenge. The failure of too many multiemployer plan trustees to fund their pension promises adequately threatens both the retirement income security of millions of workers and the solvency of the nation’s pension insurance system. Read more here....