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What are the savings rates of America compared to other industrialized countries?

There is nothing better at focusing the mind than when you realize that you are facing a situation.

Let me just take a pure hypothetical: a person who is retiring at age 65 who has a salary in the range of $150,000.

Thank you very much. You directly answered what I wanted to find out.

Several of us are sponsoring the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act, and it is a way of showing people what their savings would look like in retirement.

The system we have now does not work well for hardly anybody.

I think that there is based on a view that we can better educate and help people prepare and help an industry respond.