Retirement on the Rocks Why Americans Can’t Get Ahead and How New Savings Policies Can Help /

• Main Author: Weller, Christian E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Finance, Public.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.; Popular Science in Finance.; Public Finance.; Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning.

Jobs and wages have become less secure over the past thirty years, while stock and housing markets have gone through greater booms and busts at the same time. These factors alone make saving for retirement difficult, but a number of policy changes have also increasingly exposed household to these ri...