miércoles, 1 de noviembre de 2017

OCT 31 17 SIT EC y POL



OCT 31  17 SIT EC y POL
ND denuncia debacle d Globaliz neoliberal y propone State-Social + Capit-compet in Econ


ZERO HEDGE  ECONOMICS
Neoliberal globalization is over. Financiers know it, they documented with graphics



"...it's substitution, stupid... not addition..."
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Earlier today, Milliman released their 2017 Public Pension Funding Study which explores the funded status of the 100 largest U.S. public pension plans...here's a look at what they found.
Meanwhile, 32% of the top 100 plans were less than 60% funded.


As our readers are well aware, we've long argued that public pension funds essentially hide their true funding status by simply choosing artificially high discount rates for future liabilities thus making their present values appear lower than they actually are It's a clever scam but one that can only persist until the ponzi runs out of cash.

As Milliman notes, the median expected return of the 100 largest public pension funds in the U.S. is somewhere around 5.9% based on the asset allocations of those funds.


That said, you can imagine our shock to learn that 83 of the top 100 funds used discount rates in excess of 7%.


So, what does that mean?  Well, Milliman figures that overstating a fund's discount rate by just 1% artificially reduces it's benefit liability by up to 15%.  Therefore, given that the aggregate liabilities of the top 100 funds are roughly $5 trillion, each 1% adds about $750 billion in liabilities.

A relatively small change in the discount rate can have a significant impact on the Total Pension Liability. How big that impact is depends on the makeup of the plan's membership: a less "mature" plan with more active members than retirees typically has a higher sensitivity to interest rate changes than a more mature plan with a bigger retiree population. Other factors, such as automatic cost of living features, also come into play in determining a plan's sensitivity. Using a discount rate that is loo basis points higher or lower than the independently determined investment return assumption moves the aggregate recalibrated Total Pension Liability by anywhere from 8% to 15% SEE FIGURE 13 AT:.

Adding insult to injury, Milliman notes that the ratio of retired pensioners (those taking money out of the system) to active pensioners (those still funding the ponzi) has surged 16% over the past couple of years. 

See more charts at:
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"Why do we live in a world in which the offended people get to make the rules when they deliberately propel themselves into places that are certain to offend them? It’s so blatant of late that I am positive they’re doing it on purpose. We no longer live in the United States of America. We live in the Offended States of America."
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"The Deep State is winning... Get ready.... We’re just a few short years away from the dystopian future depicted in the film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all."
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"So, a faster rate of global capex growth is the good news... The bad news is that some traditional sectors are investing to survive and will dilute their return on invested capital in the coming years."
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"Precious metals like gold are neither a historic accident nor a relic...bitcoin remains untested in market turndowns..."
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POLITICS
La seudo democ y sist  duopolico es obsoleto por fraudulento y corrupto. Urge cambiarlo


Republicans rushing to finish a far-reaching tax cut package by Thanksgiving conceded late Tuesday that they would have to delay the release of their legislation by a day.
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"...it appears we’re once again on the cusp of momentous paradigm level change regarding how the world functions..."
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Graves County Superintendent Kim Dublin in Kentucky is apparently concerned that forcing her teachers to accept the same retirement plans offered to almost every private sector employee in the country would literally "dismantle public education" as we know it.
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WORLD ISSUES and M-East
Global depression is on…China, RU, Iran search for State socialis+K- compet. D rest in limbo

Good news?:


Having made no friends this week with his McCarthyite 'blacklist' of potential Russia-sympathizers, and facing bans and probes throughout eastern Europe (for his 'Open Society' actions), bilionaire investor George Soros has a new enemy - Isarel!

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DEMOCRACY NOW
US politics crisis: Trump captured by Deep state to reproduce old cronyism without alter-plan


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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Global Econ-Pol crisis leads to more business-wars:  profiteers US-NATO under screen


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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Deep on the US political crisis, their internal conflicts n chances of WW3


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How To End The Endless War   By Stephen Kinzer
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The War On "Drugs"  Is a war on US  By Ross Kemp
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COUNTER PUNCH 


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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
The nasty business of US-NATO-Global-wars uncovered ..


“perpetrated by a 29-year-old man” described as a "lone wolf."
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RT SHOWS
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Keiser Report  Episode 1143  Max and Stacy discuss the political operatives in ‘study’ the voter in flyover America, n draw conclusions confirming their own profitable positions. Then Max interview  author and banker, Chris Whalen
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Latino America fight to break with collapsing Empire:  leftist view on alternatives


Origen de conflicto palestino: Centenario de Declaración Balfour Paul Delmotte
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Econ      Costes verdaderos (y falsos) de la desigualdad KateP and Richard W
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ALC        Reconocer la plurinacionalidad no es suficiente   Hugo Salinas
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USA       TLCAN: el lobby automotriz vs. Trump  Alejandro Nadal
                - El Partido Pantera Negra en pantalla  Mumia Abu-Jamal
                - Los 11 frentes después del 11-S   Gastón Pardo
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                - Cristina Morales: "Los 'terroristas modernos' son los Estados"  Xavier V
                - La independencia de Andalucía como acto revolucionario  Iñaki Gil 
                - Miles se manifiestan en Valencia contra las agresiones fascistas Enric LL
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ARG       triunfo de Cambiemos:  Nada empieza, todo está en marcha Fdo E
                - La mujer como sujeto empoderado del capitalismo Diana Carolina
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Cuba      -EL CHE y el actual modelo económico  Humberto Pérez
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BRA        “Tenemos la esperanza de que vuelva Lula”  Ent a Maria Nunes
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UE          Los Balcanes de España   Allende Marina
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PRESS TV
Global situation described by Iranian observers.. Titles distorted n incomplete sentences


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