Can most pension funds last?

Can most pension funds last?

by tonytran2015 (Melbourne, Australia).

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(Blog No.38).

When a pension fund with legislated rates of pay out operates in a negative interest environment, its fund is bound to be depleted.

You have to ask how can it have money to pay out at the legislated (high positive) rates. It can only do that if it is injected with government printed fiat money or if it has an ever-expanding number of subscribers (a type of Ponzi scheme).

The stop on payouts by Dallas police fire pension board is no surprise. It is only the tip of the iceberg.

In general, negative interest rates have revealed the unsustainability of many pension plans with legislated rates of payout.

References (augmented after 09 April 2017)

[1]. Dallas police fire pension board ends run, bank stops 154m withdrawals. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2016/12/08/dallas-police-fire-pension-board-ends-run-bank-stops-154m-withdrawals, 18 Dec 2016.
[2]. Wkchild, Warning: US ponzi-retirement-market in big trouble, protect with precious metals – SRSRocco Report by Steve St. Angelo, sentinelblog.com, https://sentinelblog.com/2017/03/30/warning-u-s-ponzi-retirement-market-in-big-trouble-protect-with-precious-metals/, 30 March 2017.
[3]. SRSRocco, Warning: US ponzi-retirement-market in big trouble, protect with precious metals – SRSRocco Report by Steve St. Angelo, Economy, Precious Metals, https://srsroccoreport.com/warning-u-s-ponzi-retirement-market-in-big-trouble-protect-with-precious-metals/, 28 Mar 2017.
[4]. The next crisis is the mother of all counter party risks part1, US issues, https://us-issues.com/2017/04/09/the-next-crisis-is-the-mother-of-all-counter-party-risks-part-1/, 09 April 2017.

Augmented after 2017 June 11:

[5]. https://us-issues.com/2017/06/11/how-gold-can-rescue-pensions/.

[6]. https://news.sky.com/story/revealed-carillion-collapsed-with-5bn-of-financial-liabilities-11213303

[7]. https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/01/20/another-ponzi-exposed-as-long-term-care-insurers-double-premiums-to-stave-off-losses-by-tyler-durden/

[8]. http://us-issues.com/2018/02/05/illinois-debt-crisis-foreshadows-americas-financial-future/

[9]. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/an-obscure-court-decision-against-a-rhode-island-towns-police-officers-and-firefighters-could-be-a-warning-sign-for-social-security/ar-BBIQf5o?li=BBnb7Kz

[10]. https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/04/21/the-war-between-public-pensioners-and-tax-donkeys-is-heating-up-by-charles-hugh-smith/

[11]. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr18/pensioners-tax-donkeys4-18.html

[12]. https://www.silver-phoenix500.com/article/social-security-deterioration

Added after 2018 July 07:

[13]. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/britain/collapse-of-socialism-end-of-pensions/

[14]. http://www.wirepoints.com/illinois-state-pensions-overpromised-not-underfunded-wirepoints-special-report/

[15]. https://www.silver-phoenix500.com/article/another-way-looking-pension-crisis-%E2%80%9C-stealth-mortgage-your-house%E2%80%9D

[16]. https://us-issues.com/2018/08/13/bankruptcy-soars-as-the-country-grapples-with-an-unprecedented-debt-problem/

[17]. https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/10/08/with-corruption-like-this-its-no-wonder-so-many-pension-funds-are-insolvent-by-simon-black/

[18]. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/superannuation-rosy-picture-not-full-story/10495692

[19]. https://us-issues.com/2019/01/20/pension-fund-problem-just-got-much-worse/

[20]. Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail, https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704

[21]. https://nationandstate.com/2020/04/28/why-illinois-is-broke-109881-public-employees-with-100000-paychecks-cost-taxpayers-14b/

 

Our auditors discovered 110,000 public employees and retirees who earned more than $100,000 last year.
We found tree trimmers in Chicago making $106,663; nurses at state corrections earning up to $277,100; junior college presidents making $491,095; university doctors earning up to $2 million; and 111 small town managers who out-earned every governor of the 50 states ($202,000).

…

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker wants to hike the income tax during a recession. The proposal would change the state constitution to allow for a progressive income tax…

Last week, Illinois State Senate President Don Harmon wrote a letter to Congress asking for a $40 billion bailout. $10 billion in bailout would be used for pension plan solvency.

This week, U.S. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell suggested another path, “I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the
bankruptcy route.” McConnell specifically mentioned Illinois along with Connecticut, California, and New York.

[22]. https://survivaltricks.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/gary-shilling-the-social-securitys-funding-crisis-has-arrived/

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Cashless and negative interest go hand in hand.

Cashless and negative interest go hand in hand

by tonytran2015 (Melbourne, Australia).

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(Blog No.37).

#cash, #cashless, #globalist, #money, #negative interest,

There seems to be a synchronized wars against cash: India, France, Spain…

At the same time there is also a trend to have negative interest rates in many countries.

The two seem to depend on each other: Without cash, you have to park your money in banks to suffer negative interests.

People should wonder that the war on cash is actually just a way to recapitalize banks by people’s money and force people to accept negative interest rates.

This will also open the floodgate to exorbitant bank fees and government duties on money movement.

People may also suspect that this is part of a plot by Globalists. They may plan a three pronged attack on the free American people:

1. They take the guns from free Americans.

2. They silence them.

3. They take their wealth and cash from them to control their activities.

The end result is free Americans will become their slaves.

Update 2016Dec12: Venezuela also demonetize its highest denomination bills. People have 72 hours to change to the new bills.

Euro stop printing 500Euro notes from 2018. Japan and Singapore have been orderly withdrawing their highest denomination notes.

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References

[1]. tonytran2015, Preparing for cashless trading

Preparing for cashless trading.

[2]. tonytran2015, Negative interest rate is not new

Negative interest rate is not new.

[3]. reclaimourrepublic, The secret meeting that accelerated the war on cash

https://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/the-secret-meeting-that-accelerated-the-war-on-cash/

Added after 2018 Mar 20:

[5]. https://riggedgame.blog/2018/03/27/even-the-worlds-most-cashless-nation-doesnt-want-to-go-fully-cashless/

[6]. https://riggedgame.blog/2018/10/21/backlash-against-war-on-cash-reaches-the-bank-of-canada/

[7]. https://wolfstreet.com/2018/10/26/nirp-fades-swedens-central-bank-makes-u-turn-on-cashless-society/

[8]. https://riggedgame.blog/2018/10/28/swedish-central-bank-makes-u-turn-on-cash-as-nirp-is-ending/

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Negative interest rate is not new.

Negative interest rate is not new

by tonytran2015 (Melbourne, Australia).

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(Blog No.34).

#negative interest, #cash, #cashless, #hard time survival.

People are surprised that central banks now charge them for keeping their money. They should not if they look back into the past and they should know how to live with negative interest rate.

1. Negative interest is not new

In agricultural economies, workers had been paid by fruits and food, which have expiry dates. The wisdom in those times was and still IS “use it up and don’t let it perish”.

Then came the concept of lending for an interest, for example “You can borrow my hammer for a week but at the end you should give me a box of nails”.

So, the concept of negative interest is not an upside down idea from central bankers, it only means that the people around you cannot use your capital for any worthwhile productive venture or are not prepared to share the benefit from that venture with you.

In my own observation, when people around you run out of business opportunities the (much hyped) share markets will have to come down to reconnect to reality. So negative interest rate may be a warning sign of a possible share market tumbling. (Form your own judgement, the opinion expressed here is NOT ANY FINANCIAL ADVICE).

2. Living with negative interest rates and regain POSITIVE INCOMES.

Our fore-parents already knew how to live with perishable goods without touching any cash. Their method is:

1. Barter one type of perishable goods for another type that perishes more slowly. If possible, aim to go to step 3.

2. Use surplus perishable food to farm animals (chicken, pigs) and barter the grown animals (after some months) for other non-perishable goodies.

3. If possible barter the animals and non-perishable goodies for low maintenance, consistently desirable goodies such as gold, cloth making materials, household tools, house furnitures, house construction materials, and store them for gradual consumption or for future bartering.
It is your job to apply their ideas to your tough time in this modern economy.

4. Set up the household tools in a room like a workshop and let your neighbours use them for payment in desirable goodies: You can use my tools to repair your chairs but I must be paid with some of your home produced chicken eggs.

Following this strategy, you can REGAIN earning positive incomes from your capital in the NATURAL WAY !
Good luck.

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