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Because lower rates reduce savers’ income, they spend less, especially if they have a savings target for their retirement.
Raising the retirement age for future pension benefits qualifies as such a mechanism.
The first baby boomers have reached retirement age, and the labor force will soon be shrinking in most parts of Europe.
Its elements were clear: dry, free-market economics (but in our case with low-paid workers benefiting enormously from “social wage” increases in medical care and retirement income); compassionate social policy; and a liberal internationalist foreign policy.
We met, along with our mutual friend Adam Gopnik, in Roth’s book-lined Manhattan apartment, where he has moved after announcing his retirement from writing.
Popular anger at budget cuts imposed at the behest of speculators and bankers has toppled leaders in Ireland and Portugal, and is forcing the Spanish prime minister into retirement.
But it was not missed by people in their fifties or sixties who lost a $30-per-hour job with health care and retirement benefits, and had to settle for employment at half the previous wage and few, if any, benefits.
The old notion that large companies are responsible for their employees' welfare from cradle to grave - providing not only wages and bonuses, but sports facilities, cheap holidays, and generous retirement benefits - fell into desuetude.
A solution is to provide in-kind rewards – such as a down payment on a house, a contribution to a retirement fund, or lifetime health insurance – so that the program would not be attractive to people who might otherwise rush to donate on the promise of a large sum of instant cash.
So we need to start talking about the options – raising the retirement age, increasing immigration from developing nations, and reforming labor markets.
The challenge is to balance our obligations to all of our stakeholders, both customers and shareholders, including the pension funds that help millions of people around the world save for retirement.
The middle-aged, preparing for retirement, are likely to be the economy’s savers.
In the wake of the death of the utopian - and often bloody - certainties of the 19th and 20th centuries (Communism's collapse was but the latest spectacular example), and with fading belief in the liberal welfare state, traditional views about work, retirement, education, the Church, solidarity, and other social institutions are changing rapidly.
So, from Deng’s retirement in 1992 until Xi’s selection for the top job two years ago, China’s leadership was collective and consensual.
Yet as soon as her successor as party leader is chosen, the drums will begin beating for her immediate retirement – especially if the victor turns out to be her old rival, Friedrich Merz.
With American households saving more in order to rebuild their retirement accounts, the country has to export more.
At the height of the crisis, Ireland’s government cut public-sector salaries and pensions, raised the retirement age (to 68 by 2028), slashed welfare benefits, and increased the value-added tax.
Whereas M5S has pledged a form of “citizens’ income” for the poor and the League is committed to tax cuts, both want to repeal the 2011 pension reform that, among other things, raised the retirement age.
In Europe, for example, raising the retirement age for public pensions and shrinking government employment would curtail welfare-state excesses.
The Bachelet administration moved to curtail voucher-financed private schools, ended for-profit education, refused to build new hospitals via public-private partnerships, and would not allow private firms to manage additional retirement savings.
Increasing the retirement age, for example, improves the perspective for public finances, but it does not weigh on short-term demand.
Second, with more children to support them in their old age, parents feel less pressure to save for retirement.
As a result, they are finding it hard to “pay for” the tax cuts with any reduction in tax expenditures (incentives for various activities such as corporate borrowing, mortgage financing, or retirement saving).
Last autumn, for example, many French students joined protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to raise the retirement age ever so slightly.
To avoid such a scenario, the majority could implement tough reforms, such as raising the retirement age, or appease young people by redistributing resources through greater inter-vivos transfers (downward altruism).
At its inception, people were compelled to work 17 hours a day without a day off or retirement.
Bernanke also pointed to increased retirement saving by aging populations in Germany and Japan, as well as to saving by oil-exporting countries, with their rapidly growing populations and concerns about oil revenues in the long term.
Eventually, even the almighty American consumer will be shaken and realize that he is poorer today than three years ago and that he better start putting money away for his retirement, especially given Bush's proposed risky experiments with the social security system.
In retirement, President Dwight Eisenhower said that he should have taken money out of the defense budget to strengthen the US Information Agency.
The 2010 book Better Living through Economics, edited by John Siegfried, emphasizes the real-world impact of such innovations: emissions trading, the earned-income tax credit, low trade tariffs, welfare-to-work programs, more effective monetary policy, auctions of spectrum licenses, transport-sector deregulation, deferred-acceptance algorithms, enlightened antitrust policy, an all-volunteer military, and clever use of default options to promote saving for retirement.
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