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Roger Lowenstein - While America Aged

Kepler's Bookstore

May 6, 2008

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America now faces a crisis of epidemic proportions: the fabric of the nation’s pension system is collapsing at the very moment when the population is rapidly aging. Author Roger Lowenstein delivers a timely and hard-hitting investigation of how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers?promises that are now coming due and that could have disastrous effects on our economy if nothing is done.

Showing how and why corporations and public institutions made assurances of high benefits that they could or would not keep?and how these broken pledges will affect us all? While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis unravels the truth about how pensions work in America, and illuminates the impending crisis. With the narrative flair and talent for decoding financial ambiguities that readers have come to rely on, Lowenstein examines the pension issues at the heart of the collapse of General Motors, the subway strike that effectively halted New York City, and the scandalous bankrupting of the affluent corner of Southern California, the city of San Diego. Not only compelling historical sagas, each case study is an object lesson. Warning that these pension wars are only the beginning if we don’t find ways to address the problem, Lowenstein explains how we came to this crisis and suggests possible solutions.

Roger Lowenstein, author of three bestselling books, reported for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade and wrote the Journal’s stock market column, “Heard on the Street,” and also its “Intrinsic Value” column. He is now a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, SmartMoney, and Portfolio, among other publications

Masterfully written and convincingly argued, While America Aged is a wake-up call to a pension damaged America, and the roadmap for a way out.

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