The single employer defined benefit pension system and the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation is in crisis and in urgent need of fundamental reforms.

The PBGC should have greater flexibility to charge higher premiums to firms generating more risk to the system.

The federal government has taken over large swaths of consumer lending, most notably the $10 trillion home mortgage and $1 trillion student lending markets. The government's share of new loans for each now approaches 100%.Government monopolies in financial services pose risks to taxpayers as well as borrowers

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The 2005 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) annual report shows that its liabilities are $23 billion greater than its assets. With bad luck, experts believe that this could grow to $100 billion and a taxpayer bail...

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An analysis of why current public sector pension accounting standards understate liabilities and encourage excessive risk-taking

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