Quote from morganist:
Read this.
http://morganisteconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/where-next-with-financial-crisis.html
Admittedly UK, which is worse than the US.
Not good.
heck, dollar devaluation - if US loses world reserve currency status - can kill off pensions, 401K, IRA wealth all by itself.Quote from Scataphagos:
I was just kidding... I'm one of them.
Beyond losing their expected pensions, what happens when the government starts confiscating part/all of our IRAs and 401Ks?
Quote from morganist:
State pensions are paid by the current work force who are diminishing in number. Private pensions are about to collapse because money that was lent will not be paid back.