The Sharks Are Circling Around America's Private Pension Funds
Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 23, Number 47, November 22, 1996 The sharks are circling around America's private pension funds by John Hoefle Underneath all the propaganda about the need to "reform" raiders would not be after it. The Social Security trust fund Social Security, lies a nasty hidden agenda, the intent to use currently contains some $562 billion in assets, and is expected public funds to prop up the internationalfinancial bubble long to collect some $10 trillionbetween 1997 and 2010, according enough for the so-called "smart money" to cash out. As EIR to projections based upon figures from the Social Security has repeatedly warned, the Club of the Isles international Administration. What is broke, is the global financialsystem; financial oligarchy has, over the past several years, been that's why they want the money. quietly pulling out of financial paper of all sorts, and putting Throwing Social Security to the sharks will not save it, that money into physical goods such as metals, minerals, food, but destroy it, and destroy the lives of people who depend and energy. To keep their pullout from itself triggering a upon Social Security for food, shelter, and other essentials. collapse, the oligarchs have moved carefully, luring new By way of showing what the sharks have in mind for the funds into the bubble to replace what they withdraw. Among public pensions, we shall take a look at what they have done the pools of funds they have targetted, are public and private to the private pension system. It is the method the oligarchs pension funds.
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