Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System

by Sylvester J. Schieber

Book Overview

Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise , Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement crisis have been apparent for decades, but we have never mustered the political will to address the problem. This book explains how we have gotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199890951
• ISBN13: 9780199890958
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"