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John Arnold
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A side project we @LJA_Foundation have worked on is to bring greater transparency, oversight, & accountability to organ donation system. The orgs that procure organs have geographic monopolies of highly varying quality. Frankly, we think some are poorly managed & could do better.
The report we commissioned was picked up by WaPo this week in a 3 part series. After reading it, @ToddYoungIN pledged to introduce legislation to expand oversight of the industry: “nation’s organ donation system operat(es) in darkness, it’s time to get a look behind the curtain”
Report is here: bridgespan.org/bridgespan/Ima…
Primary WaPo article here: washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/…
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1/ A short rant on the deficit & Modern Monetary Theory. MMT states that since the US can print as much $ as it wants, it can never go bankrupt and deficits are generally not important. Thus, the US should run significant deficits to maximize productive capacity. All good so far.
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John Arnold
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I worry about global warming bc the downside scenario is, though not certain, catastrophic & the impacts extraordinarily hard to reverse.
I worry about the federal debt bc the downside scenario is, though not certain, catastrophic & the impacts extraordinarily hard to reverse.
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Illinois pensions have entered the death spiral, as they fall further behind in FY 18 even with strong investment returns. The funds have $223 bln of liabilities growing at assumed rate of 7% a year ($15 bln). But with assets of only $90 bln, must earn 17% just to stay even.
For Illinois' FY '18 which ended in June, the S&P rose 14.2% including dividends. The 5 largest pension funds in Illinois earned 6.9-8.3%. Even after a larger cash contribution from the state, the funds fell $4 bln further behind. What happens in a year when the market is down??
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