Are politics putting your pension, your financial future, and the stability of the country at risk?
On this episode of The Finest Unfiltered, we sit down with Dr. Mike ter Maat former White House Office of Management and Budget financial economist, former police officer, and the Libertarian Party’s 2024 nominee for Vice President of the United States.
Mike Ter Maat brings a rare perspective to the conversation. He has worked inside the federal government as an economist, spent more than two decades working in economics and public policy, taught economics, and later served more than 11 years as a police officer in Broward County, Florida.
We discuss how politics is increasingly intersecting with economics, policing, public pensions and financial markets and whether those political decisions are contributing to civil unrest and long-term financial instability.
We get into:
- Public pensions and retirement security
- Political influence over pension investments
- Government spending, debt and inflation
- How economic policy affects cops, retirees and working families
- The relationship between economic instability and civil unrest
- What happens when investment decisions become political decisions
- Whether America's political system is creating risks that most people aren't paying attention to
- Mike's experience running on the 2024 Libertarian presidential ticket
- His perspective as both an economist and former police officer
For cops, firefighters, teachers, municipal workers and retirees, this isn't simply an economics debate. Billions of dollars in retirement assets and the financial security people spent their careers earning can be affected by decisions being made today.
Is your pension really safe? And what happens when politics becomes more important than economics?
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