I Think That’s Called “Burying the Lead” (Of a Sort)
It’s not for nothing that economics is known as “the dismal science.”
In the same vein, The Wall Street Journal can have a decidedly “glass half-empty” perspective on things.
Take, for example, its slant on this objectively happy news:
“In its first revision of mortality assumptions since 2000, the Society of Actuaries estimated the average 65-year-old man today will live 86.6 years, up from the 84.6 it estimated a decade and a half ago. The average 65-year-old woman will live 88.8 years, up from 86.4.”
—The Wall Street Journal (2/24/2015)
What do you suppose is the headline of the accompanying WSJ article?
Answer: “Longer Lives Hit Pension Plans Hard” (true).
I belive that that’s what’s called, “a high-quality problem to have . . .”
