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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Once upon a time CAT and John Deere were Peoria…..
John Deere is in Moline. Peoria was all CAT, all the time.
Illinois home prices would be crashing but for the biggest Everything Bubble 2.0 in the history of civilization. All that funny money floating around finds a home somewhere, including Illinois. Reluctantly it seems, given the low home growth.