As the Financial Times has reported: [US] Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has insisted the US would never default on its debt as he sought to
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Uncertainty, risk and misplaced assumptions on data and rationality
There has been discussion on pension fund management here over the last day or two. My suggestions when making my comments were threefold: Risk is
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Do you know where your pension is?
This video was actually recorded about three or four days ago, before the furore about pensions that has erupted here over the last couple of
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A note to trolling actuaries
Whenever I write about defined benefit pension schemes, as I do on occasion, there are a persistent group of trolls who turn up here to
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The failure of Musk is not by chance
Musk came, he saw, and he left, having wrecked the place. There were no victories. There was no gain. It is estimated that 1,500 babies
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Why are interest rates so high?
Interest rates in the UK and the USA are way too high, as a comparison with the Eurozone proves. That’s because of their incompetent economic
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It’s horrible to watch a health crisis in the making
This comes from a journal called Pulse, which is a weekly publication aimed at medics, and GPs in particular: Weight-loss drugs cannot be seen as
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Neoliberal education is failing around the world
The OECD has published a new report on the state of global teenage career preparation. As they say on their website: This report sets out
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Ending the two-child benefit will pay for itself
The Labour government claims that it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple
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