While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis

Roger Lowenstein turns his intelligent eye toward the American private pension system, and the expensive promises made to workers and labor unions. I loved his earlier books on Warren Buffett and Long-Term Capital Management, but in this case his subject is too broad, his conclusions are unsupported, and most of his dire predictions have not (yet) come pass.