Description: While some people proclaim the imminent triumph of renewable energy, this article argues that fossil fuels will continue to be part of the energy mix.

Description: In this article the author argues that a falling currency is a symptom of a country’s economic problems and discusses Canada’s experience through late 1997, and concludes that the government’s fiscal and monetary policies were not the long term answer to the problem.

Description: This is a discussion from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting on economic issues and inflation and the decay of the American financial system including debt, the crash in house prices and implications for the insurance industry. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No.1.

Description: A comprehensive literature review on demographics and asset returns plus model specifications relating to housing prices.

Description: Three consultants offer their views on a pandemic and post-pandemic economic future that awaits Mexico. COVID-19 deepened the contraction of the Mexican economy. As manufacturing and consumption bounce back, sustaineddemand for services can help recovery. But a policy push is needed. The global pandemic came at a time when the Mexican economy had contracted for five straight quarters due to avariety of factors such as deceleration in investment and private consumption and uncertainty around the free tradeagreement with the United States and Canada. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated this trend, resulting in the largest contraction since the Great Depression of 1929.

Description: This article discusses how pension accounting has an impact on the personal savings rate.

Description: This paper examines the development of inflation and the dilemma the life insurance business faces. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This session presented at the SOA's April 1976 Washington D.C. Meeting provides information on the impact of inflation on Life Insurer Income Tax and Tax Liability and the impact that the U.S. tax policy on investments, jobs and inflation.

Description: This session from the 1984 Toronto Meeting discusses the pressures generated by the U.S. deficit on the U.S. and other countries, the trade scene and U.S. policies such as deregulation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: This session is about the methods of projecting long-run stock returns using inflation rates from bond yield curves with incremental returns for risk taking based on historical data and the relationship between concurrent, expected and unexpected inflation rates and the rates of return on common stocks and U.S. government bonds and notes. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.