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The SCOTUS Tariff Ruling, a Housing Crunch, and the Public Pension Time Bomb

The Economist Next Door

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How States Account for and Discount Pension Costs

Tom explains discount rate choices, accounting tricks, and why present-value calculations vary widely across reports.

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