Tag: retirement savings
Simple model suggests more saving, but real world frictions likely to produce less saving. For the record, we would not be discussing shifting from traditional to Roth 401(k)s except that Congress is looking for additional revenue to offset its proposed tax cuts over the next 10 years, the timeframe used for considering legislation. As background,…
The Federal Reserve recently released the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), a triennial survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, which collects detailed data on their assets, liabilities, and demographic characteristics. It is considered the gold standard of information on income and wealth. Overall, this year’s report, unlike those in 2013 and…
