How the French pensions débâcle is a warning to us all

法国养老金崩溃为何成为我们的警示

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-11-10

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France has one of the most generous pension systems in the world. But several governments there have collapsed over questions about how the government will fund it. All over the world, aging populations are forcing governments to rethink their assumptions.  Today on the show, what France’s political fiascos teach all of us about the economics of an aging population, and what a retirement expert’s ideal retirement system might look like. Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index 2025 Related episodes:  What would it take to fix retirement?  What does the next era of Social Security look like?  When Retirement Advice Goes Viral  For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR.

  • This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Darian Woods.

  • And I'm Waylon Wong.

  • French politics recently can only be described by one word.

  • Omni shambles.

  • On the shambles, that's what you are.

  • You're like that coffee machine.

  • Yeah, On the Shambles, a gay, complete and utter mismanagement, flailing about,

  • made famous in the British comedy show The Thick of It,

  • the political satire from The Guy Who Brought Us Veep.

  • Well, this word moved across the English Channel to Paris.

  • Over the past two years, France has had five prime ministers ousted or resigned.

  • The latest, Sebastian Le Corneux, was reinstated by President Emmanuel Macron in October,

  • and that was just four days after Le Corneux's resignation.

  • People embarrassed of what they did best about this whole situation.

  • They protested loudly.

  • Sounds like a good old-fashioned omnishambles.

  • Indeed.

  • Vintage.