Das Wallstreet Journal sieht die primäre Ursache für die katastrophale Lage der britischen Pension Funds nicht bei der Politik von PM Liz Truss, sondern bei jener der Bank of England und der meisten anderen Zentralbanken. Das Blatt schreibt:
What isn’t responsible for this panic, by the way, is tax policy. Conventional wisdom now blames Prime Minister Liz Truss’s tax-cutting plan, announced on Sept. 23, for the pension blowup. That announcement may have lit a match near the pension bomb’s fuse if it momentarily spooked investors, but plenty of other sparks were in the air. A pension crisis was all but inevitable as interest-rate increases created new stresses for hedging strategies.