Interest Rates

Inflation and Economic Security of the Older Population

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Financial well-being, Interest Rates

Following a long period when inflation was about 2.5% per year, the year-to-year increase in the consumer price index was recently reported to be about 8%. The older population, being net lenders, is economically vulnerable to high and increasing inflation…

2019 Key Findings

• May 26, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Disparities, Financial well-being, Interest Rates, International, Labor Supply, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Occupational Requirements Survey, pensions, Totalization

Winter 2020 Newsletter: MRDRC releases key findings from 2019 papers

• March 9, 2020
• Susan Barnes
• Interest Rates, IRA withdrawals, Labor force participation, Mortality trends, News, pensions, Retirement, Totalization

MRDRC published eight working papers in 2019 on topics such as totalization agreements, global interest rate trends, and retirement inequality. Informing projections Interest Rate Trends in a Global Context Dmitriy Stolyarov and Linda Tesar WP 2019-402; UM19-05 Two methodologies are…

Interest Rate Trends in a Global Context

• December 11, 2019
• CMT_Admin
• Interest Rates, International, OASDI trust funds

Interest Rate Trends in a Global Context

• December 4, 2019
• CMT_Admin
• Interest Rates, International, OASDI trust funds

Long-term interest rates have been falling globally since the early 1980s and have reached historically low levels. Past forecasts largely missed this secular decline. This paper reviews methodologies for making long-term interest rate projections. We synthesize results from studies that…