Bolivia Quote by Carlos Mesa

One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults…

— Michael Hudson

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in…

— Jerry Brown

Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.

— Hedrick Smith

People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.

— Angela Rayner

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they…

— Michael Spence

“Pensions are aimed at the dead. Work hard for retirement! It never comes for many due to fatal illnesses and diseases.”

— Steven Magee

I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an…

— Martin Gilbert

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the…

— Peter Blair Henry

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

— Chris Sacca

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians;…

— Leo Varadkar

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

— John W. Gardner