By Tyler Durden Over half a million people are expected to protest across France on Tuesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s widely unpopular pension overhaul, according…
By Tyler Durden French President Emmanuel Macron used special constitutional powers to pass a controversial pension bill through the National Assembly (the lower house) without…
By Tyler Durden As of Tuesday, a nationwide strike in France caused significant disruptions, such as halted trains, closed ports, empty schools, canceled and delayed…
By Tyler Durden President Macron’s retirement and pension reform program has unleashed the expected mass demonstrations, strikes, and likely soon to be riots on the streets…
By Tyler Durden It’s remarkable to think that it was just 6 weeks ago when the UK revealed its biggest spending spree in decades –…
By Aden Tate As the American debt reaches record levels on a daily basis, currently being in the trillions of dollars and literally impossible for…
By Amy Korte of Illinois Policy Patricia Hill grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood dreaming of one day owning a home. She and her…
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man In the year 1348, after more than a decade of war with France, King Edward III of England noticed that…
By Mary Malone Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, although rooted in an older concept known as “socially responsible investing,” has been more and more…
By Stefan Gleason Public and private pension plans face a dual crisis. The first and most obvious threat to pensioners is that defined-benefit vehicles are…
By Tyler Durden France is bracing for major transportation disruptions throughout the country starting Thursday, as trade unions launch a strike in response to changes…
By Tyler Durden When one thinks of pensions crisis, the state of Illinois – with its woefully underfunded retirement system which issues bonds just to…
By Tyler Durden In what looks like a dry run of the looming pension crisis facing corporate America, GE said on Monday that it would…
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man On Friday evening, the government here in Puerto Rico made an announcement to local retirees that many of them would…