• Postal Service launches new TV ad campaign

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:36:45
    “Americans watching college football games and news broadcasts in the next week may notice new ads from the agency — long known for its campy messages promoting Priority Mail shipping services. Now, the “If it fits, it ships” campaign will share airtime with two 30-second spots designed to remind customers that paper mail, unlike e-mail, [...]

  • Senator Sanders Plans Legislation to Save USPS Jobs, Strengthen Service

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:36:45
    BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 27 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today told a rally of Postal Service workers that he is crafting legislation to maintain mail service to communities throughout Vermont and avert cuts that could cost thousands of workers their jobs. As the financially-troubled Postal Service considers cutbacks across the country, 15 Vermont post [...]

  • APWU President On C-SPAN: Save America’s Postal Service

    Updated: 2011-09-30 17:36:45
    APWU President Cliff Guffey appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal cable TV program this morning. The union president spoke at length about the real cause of the USPS financial crisis and why Congress must pass legislation to provide financial stability for the nation’s mail system.

  • PA pension downplays shift from costly private investments

    Updated: 2011-09-30 16:23:25
    SERS' billions in high-fee private investments haven't been enough to stop a growing deficit

  • Things worth reading: 30th September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-30 06:58:18

  • Anatomy of a Deflationary Debt Collapse

    Updated: 2011-09-29 20:42:51

  • Why 50pc tax row misses the point: what about the squeezed middle?

    Updated: 2011-09-29 07:11:44
    New analysis which shows that the United Kingdom has the fourth highest top rate of income tax in the European Union will add to calls for the 50pc band to be scrapped – but I beg to disagree. Global analysis by accountants KPMG found that out of 96 countries surveyed, only five had tax rates [...]

  • Things worth reading: 29th September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-29 06:30:54

  • PA pension fund fires consultants, seeks 'fresh look'

    Updated: 2011-09-28 21:36:48
    Rocaton and Cambridge out, Kuhns and StepStone in

  • Postal Supervisor Indicted for Faking a Mugging To Collect Workers Comp

    Updated: 2011-09-28 20:20:26
    A federal grand jury today indicted a Jeanette post office supervisor for faking a mugging to collect workers compensation for medical treatment and 32 days of lost wages. Jeffrey Gogets, 50, of Hempfield carried an empty bottle to the Bullitt Avenue entrance of the post office shortly before 6 a.m. on April 18, waited several [...]

  • The Real Cause of the Postal Crisis: Ed Breaks It Down On MSNBC

    Updated: 2011-09-28 20:20:25
    When APWU President Cliff Guffey appeared on “The Ed Show” on MSNBC on Sept. 27, he got an enthusiastic introduction from the host, Ed Schultz. “Politicians have been on a mission to get rid of the Postal Service since the year 2006 when they passed an unbelievable lame duck session law,” Schultz told viewers, referring [...]

  • OPM Announces 2012 FEHBP Premium Rates

    Updated: 2011-09-28 20:20:24
    Washington, DC - The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that the average premium for the 8 million people enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program (FEHBP) will increase by 3.8 percent for non-postal employees and all annuitants in 2012, which is approximately half of last year’s increase of 7.3 percent. On [...]

  • Eurozone's dangerous lurch towards protectionism

    Updated: 2011-09-28 18:12:11
    José Manuel Barroso's proposal for a financial transaction tax to help repair public balance sheets has raised anew the prospect of a two speed Europe. With the economic powerhouse of the City to defend, Britain has repeatedly sworn to use its veto to block any such notion, so in the past it has always been [...]

  • Things worth reading: 28th September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-28 08:57:20

  • Inflation steals £2,500 from typical savers in slow motion bank robbery

    Updated: 2011-09-28 06:51:53
    The average easy access savings account has lost nearly £2,500 of its real value or purchasing power during the last decade, according to calculations by Yorskhire Building Society. Inflation is the insidious enemy of savers because it stealthily reduces what their money will buy. But with the Government’s favoured yardstick, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) [...]

  • Things worth reading: 27th September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-27 09:07:40

  • Things worth reading: 26th September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-26 12:10:43

  • Debt Ceiling Watch

    Updated: 2011-09-24 00:06:51
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Debt Ceiling Watch In Case You Missed It . IMF Highlights Need For a Fiscal Plan Event Re-Cap : Urging the Super Committee to Go Big Time is Running Out On the FY 2012 Budget The Federal Reserve Does The Twist' Event 9 21 : Urging the Super Committee to Go Big Senate Appropriators Attempt to Avoid BCA Cap By month September 2011 37 August 2011 52 July 2011 61 June 2011 54 May 2011 48 April 2011 55 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 All Archives By Keyword Budget Process and Rules 180 Budget Projections 121 CBO 152 Economic Recovery Measures 254 Economy 176

  • Fed’s “Operation Twist” Another Reason For Pension Plan LDI

    Updated: 2011-09-23 14:14:35
    The Federal Reserve’s “Operation Twist” is intended to boost consumer spending, but it could cause lots of problems for defined benefit pension plans who haven’t adopted a liability-driven investment (LDI) strategy. Here’s what plan sponsors need to consider: 1. If long-term interest rates drop due to “Operation Twist”, then pension liabilities will likely increase and [...]

  • Things worth reading: 23rd September 2011

    Updated: 2011-09-23 12:48:56

  • How Does President Obama's Plan Stack Up?

    Updated: 2011-09-19 18:17:55
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Glen Hubbard Joins the Anouncement Effect Club Line’ Items : Game On Edition How Does President Obama's Plan Stack Up MY VIEW : Paul Volcker CRFB on President Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan Obama Leaves Social Security Out A Few Submissions to the Super Committee 36 Senators Call for Super Committee to Go Big By month September 2011 29 August 2011 53 July 2011 61 June 2011 54 May 2011 48 April 2011 55 March 2011 68 February 2011 55 January 2011 59 December 2010 46 November 2010 60 October 2010 53 All Archives By Keyword Budget Process and Rules 180 Budget Projections 121 CBO 152 Economic Recovery Measures 254 Economy

  • What’s New with PBGC Premium Relief

    Updated: 2011-09-16 15:43:50
    In this post we highlight three new PBGC premium relief items: 1. Seven Day Rule – for waiver of late premium penalties in 2011 and later. 2. “Alternative” premium method election relief – for 2010 and later years. 3. Waiver of certain “alternative” method penalties – for 2008 and 2009. Below is a detailed summary [...]

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