ANDREW BIGGS FROM THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO TESTIFY AT PENSION COMMISSION THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH (State Office Bldg Room 5, Click Here for the Agenda and Schedule).
CONTACT: KIM CROCKETT [email protected] OR 612.388.2820 FOR INFORMATION.
Keith Brainard, research director of the National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA), and an aggressive and talented defender of the status quo, is scheduled to testify about hybrid plans adopted throughout the country (and maybe other topics). Brainard and Prof. Josh Rauh from Northwestern’s Kellogg School have been carrying on a public (virtual debate).
The Minnesota Free Market Institute invited Andrew Biggs from the American Enterprise Institute (“AEI), a DC based think tank to testify on November 10th, as well.
Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to joining AEI he was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he oversaw SSA’s policy research efforts and led the agency’s participation in the Social Security Trustees working group. His impressive qualifications can be viewed here. You can view his publications here.
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On a day when Nobel-prize winner and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is on the hot seat on Capitol Hill, answering questions about the Solyndra scandal, details are coming out about an even larger, potential scandal.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports about a $1.4 billion bailout for a firm tied to environmental lawyer and Presidential nephew Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The Mail reports,
“The revelation was made in an explosive new book, Throw Them All Out, which exposes the secret financial deals of an inner circle of businessmen and politicians in the White House (read more….)