Via Jean-Luc:
“When you let the free market take over, the little people get screwed and bankers get rich. Chile tried privatizing retirement plans and surprise, surprise, fund manager ate the profits… Pretty sure the results would be the same here…” ~ Jean-Luc
Here’s a Cautionary Tale of Pension Privatization From Chile
Among free-market fans, Chile’s privatized pension plan has long been held up as a model for us to follow. The problem, as the Financial Times notes today, is that it’s performed pretty dismally. Daniel Gross suggests that it was all well-intentioned, but for some reason just didn’t work out:
underplayed story. It wasn’t corrupt — just turned out to be something of a disaster. https://t.co/n20qXlv5Qs
— Daniel Gross (@grossdm) September 12, 2016
Chile’s experiment in privatizing pensions, 35 years later https://t.co/qlrB72KkGz pic.twitter.com/wvgxOgwrsL
— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) September 12, 2016