1/2/2015 – A Sobering Perspective on a Looming Retirement Crisis

Feeling pleased that I had survived another year and the annual predictions of the apocalypse, I made the mistake of picking up “Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It” (Oxford University Press).

Written by Alicia H. Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, with Andrew D. Eschtruth, a colleague there, and Charles D. Ellis, a widely respected consultant and author, “Falling Short” does a fine job of clearly laying out the whats and whys of the impending crisis. It also provides a number of reasonable sounding alternative paths to avoiding financial Armageddon for the coming generations of seniors.

Read the full article at The New York Times.