Read the intro to my new book, The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity, over at the WaPo PostEverything. Or better yet, download the whole damn book at let me know what you think. You can buy a hard copy–you know, with paper pages, here. [Here’s the cover, which I think is great, by Anthony… Read more
Archive for the ‘Social Security’ Category
Chris Christie dangles the keys
As I stressed on CNBC this AM, Chris Christie’s entitlement plan is not a good plan. It is instead a classic “key dangle” (“look over here, not over there!”), as the folks at Vox nailed yesterday, –While all the attention has been on benefit cuts for wealthier recipients, that part by itself does very little… Read more
A few different articles that caught the eye in recent days…
–Teresa Tritch, with characteristic efficiency, nails the essentials of the building Greek/German showdown, emphasizing the critical point that this isn’t a simple story of virtuous lenders and profligate borrowers. Both sides swam in de-Nile since Greece entered the eurozone, and now that the implosion has occurred, the Greeks cannot be the only ones to shoulder… Read more
Did you know that yesterday was Social Security’s b’day?
Happy belated b’day to the highly efficient and effective social insurance program, with deets over at PostEverything. Source: Ruffing
Do not…I repeat, do not…be afraid of big numbers!
I was just about to ding Larry Kotlikoff for some serious malpractice re his NYT oped this morning when I recalled that Dean Baker has built a cottage industry around the point I wanted to make. And sure enough, here it is from Dean’s blog [my bold]: [Kotlikoff writes re Social Security:] “you’ll find that the program’s… Read more