<http://www.cfo.com/printarticle/0,5317,7507|,00.html> Honey, I Shrunk The 401(k) The bear market has clobbered 401(k) accounts--and could spark a revival of...
http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/244/editorials/In_the_red_again+.shtm l ... The Congressional Budget Office forecast of federal deficits for the next five...
1. September 1, 2002 Week In Review: Update on Capitalism: What Do You Mean 'Us,' Boss? NYT By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Not long ago, before the accounting scandals...
Mercer, unlike virtually all of the other major management/actuarial/ employee benefit firms, has for quite a few years now, been actively and publically...
UK joins the numerous surveys and studies that show the same thing in the US. We are headed for a cliff and our leaders are clueless. The World At Large Nearly...
IBM May Cut About 4,000 Jobs In Wake of Pricewaterhouse Deal By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL About 4,000 people are likely to...
Goodbye, Surplus. Hello, Train Wreck Bush's tax cuts brought the budget deficit back, making it make much tougher to pay health and retirement benefits for...
As a pension actuary with some 40 years experience in how pensions and other post-retirment benefits work, I alerady know the solution-- but you can help bny...
New Polls Show Huge Public Shift on Management/Labor Prosecutors Squeeze Fastow's Wife For the first time in nearly 50 years Americans are reassessing the ...
As Republicans quickly remove the word "privatization" from their vocabularly, while still talking about "individual accounts", it is becoming more and more...
Excellent. Diamond and Orzag are two of the good guys. Diamond is a professor at MIT and also works with Prof. Modigliani-- one of several Nobel Prize winners...
This administartion has an utter contempt for the law and for the American people--working people who do not make their living from ripping off small...
Judge From Enron Defeated for Fed Court Seat Halliburton Update - Where's Harvey? While Republicans bitterly complain that the defeat of one of President...
The same tired and proven wrong economics policies that enriched political hacks and friends of Reagan and Bush and are now hard at work again with Bush...
<http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/06/0906topnews.html> Health Coverage Down As Costs Rise Dan Ackman, 09.06.02, 9:16 AM ET NEW YORK - Health insurance premiums...
COLI DOGGED. Wal-Mart has sued several insurance companies for more than $150 million in restitution for losses related to corporate-owned life insurance...
The kinder and gentler SEC of Harvey Pitt--it'S BACK! Dunlop gets off with a mere pittance of a fine. The man is worth hundreds of millions and absolutely...
One of the major strategies of all dictators through time, including (maybe especially) Hitler and Stalin, was to take advantage of and then exaggerate...
NY TIMES: September 10, 2002 Shriveling of Pensions After Halliburton Deal By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH In June, puzzling letters began appearing in the mailboxes of...
Is there anything as hypocrital as a President charging off to one war, before he has finished the first one and who himself used his daddy to push ahead of...
2 Top Tyco Executives Charged With $600 Million Fraud Scheme The former chief executive and the former chief financial officer of Tyco were indicted on charges...
12-Sep-02 "Conservatives, when they talk about rights, mean their rights to keep their unjust privileges. When they talk about justice, they mean the justice...
__Honor Them By Taking Back The Voice of Democracy Simon Schama writes: "That the Bush administration would always prefer prayers to politics, avoiding at all...
TIRE FLAP? A group of Goodyear Tire & Rubber workers have sued their employer, claiming the firm's employee evaluation system discriminates against older...
FITCH "HITCH". The combination of underfunded pension obligations and low (or negative) returns is pulling resources away from more productive investments,...
Ex-CEOs Get Lush Perks, Fees for 'Consulting' Work Guess which management consulting firm had more to do with this kind of self-enrichment AND the simultaneous...
From one of the many activists who have gotten robbed on their pension (who wishes to be anonymous) comes this interesting Letter to the Editor on Napanews.com...
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/09/15/Columns/Bush_s_religious_pres.shtml "It appears we are entering a new era in Washington, one where the wall separating church...