Tag Archives | Retirement

  • Zooming in on the Loop

    Scott Ferguson and Tyler Suksawat

    In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we propose, Seattle can not only expand public investment through municipal lending and provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also purchase its own bonds and “loop” the interest back to the […]

  • The Seattle Loop: Reclaiming the Public Interest

    Scott Ferguson and Tyler Suksawat

    A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let alone finance. Despite the proliferation of sticky notes with compelling schemes, as Amanda Manitach describes in The Stranger, the arts roundtable lacked a cohesive strategy for gathering its aspirational potpourri […]

  • The Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) reports with evident alarm that “France has one of the lowest rates of retirees at risk of poverty in Europe.”

    U.S. media cheer as France forces old people to work

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 6, 2023 by Conor Smyth (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Apr 10, 2023)

    “The Party Is Ending for French Retirees.” That’s the headline the Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) went with just days before French President Emmanuel Macron invoked a special article of the constitution to bypass the National Assembly and enshrine an increase in the retirement age in national law.