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Massacre of the Innocents (by Springheel Jack)
What strange times these are. I saw a story this morning in the UK's Daily Express about the meltdown in private pensions in the UK. You can see that here. There's not much to say about this really, regulations (by the government) force pension funds to hold long dated bonds, the yield on those bonds has been pushed down to less than inflation (by the government), and UK pensioners are forced to buy annuities at retirement (by the government).