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While America aged : how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.Description: 274 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781594201677
  • 1594201676
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.25/240973
LOC classification:
  • HD 7125 L917w 2008
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Contents:
Introduction -- Who owns General Motors? -- Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit -- The anti-Reuther -- The public freight -- An entitled class -- On strike! -- Debacle in San Diego -- Finest city -- Pension plot -- The bill comes due -- Conclusion : the way out -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: From the bestselling author of "Buffett" and "Origins of the Crash" comes a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-266) and index.

Introduction -- Who owns General Motors? -- Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit -- The anti-Reuther -- The public freight -- An entitled class -- On strike! -- Debacle in San Diego -- Finest city -- Pension plot -- The bill comes due -- Conclusion : the way out -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

From the bestselling author of "Buffett" and "Origins of the Crash" comes a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out.

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