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Why do we retire at 65? (Slate, August 23, 2010)
Social Security's Disability Insurance...is a budget buster. (Slate, September 13, 2010)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, in defense of America’s Social Security system: “a growing nation is the greatest Ponzi scheme ever contrived. And that is a fact, not a paradox.” (1967)
Social Security is incredibly important for the elderly poor. (New York Times, June 7, 2010)
For interest:
Nice data source from the Social Security Administration
US population age districtution, 1950-2050
Where is human life expectancy headed? (Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Fogel, Bloomberg, July 21, 2011)
How women saved Social Security (Casey Mulligan, New York Times, March 3, 2010)
Pensions are just killing state budgets. (Roger Lowenstein, New York Times, June 21, 2010)
State and local governments are thinking of changing to offering defined contribution plans (New York Times, February 28, 2011)
Standard & Poors on "Global Aging: An Irreversible Truth" (October 7, 2010)
Pensions and the US Postal System (New Republic, July 11, 2010)
Old people are overpaid anyway. (Tim Harford, Slate, March 18, 2006)
Being 65 isn't old anymore anyway. (Slate, Feb. 22, 2005)
Glenn Hubbard writes about working on Social Security reform with President George W. Bush (New York Times, August 30, 2009)
How much did crashing equity markets trash pensions around the world? (New York Times, June 29, 2009)
More on the effect of the recession on retirement decisions (New Republic, October 5, 2009)
Raising the retirement age is really tough on people with physical jobs (New York Times, September 13, 2010)
"How to Cheat a Retirement Fund" (New York Times, September 11, 2010)
For fun:
Dilbert: "Retirement planning is all about timing."
Some of the oldest Japanese...have been dead for a long time...but their pension checks keep coming. More on this. (New York Times, August 15, 2010, Slate, August 13, 2010)
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