Jose Piñera

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What has been said?

"The costs of global aging will be far beyond the means of even the world's wealthiest nations—unless retirement benefit systems are radically reformed. Failure to do so, to prepare early and boldly enough, will spark economic crises that will dwarf the recent meltdowns in Asia and Russia. For this and other reasons, global aging will become not just the transcendent economic issue of the 21st century, but the transcendent political issue as well."

Pete Peterson, former U.S. secretary of commerce and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York