The above is an extract from a 2012 National Academy of Social Insurance publication entitled Social Security: What do Americans Want. There is much to see and read in this publication and I urge people to take a look at this longish PDF of 57 pages and many Tables, of which this is just one. […]

Paul Krugman wrote today about Life Without Cars. This subject strikes home for me. I have lived without a car since 2005. I lived 5 of the past 9 years in Chile and used the bus system there. I came back to the United States and have used a combination of walking, a bike and […]

The video presents safe voyages to space. “people… first-hand viscerally get that we live on a planet suspended in space … and this planet is all that we have.” Yet we could assume that only rich people from around the world will take the ride. How many of them will get a vision that the […]

2014 Long Term Budget Outlook (pdf 64pp) While we are still waiting on the 2014 Social Security Report we do have today the release of CBO’s annual Budget Outlook which among other parts does include a chapter on Social Security. I plan to extract and post some Tables from it but in the meantime people […]

Yup. Definitely the way to go.  No doubt about it.  Rep. Ellmers has found the key. Out of the mouths of babes.  (One babe, anyway.) Good grace. —- PS: Thanks, Ms. Schow.  Good job.  And thanks, David Weigel.  Excellent job.  

David Kay Johnston re-frames the story of what happens to your money in this age of tax cuts as the road to prosperity: Why are so many Americans feeling squeezed economically even as the economy expands at an accelerating pace? Last month set a new record for sustained job creation: 52 straight months of added […]

by Dale Coberly REALITY 101 ANOTHER LOOK AT CBO REPORT FOR THOSE FOREVER YOUNG I wrote a post the other day trying to explain what the CBO’s number meant when they said it might be necessary to raise the payroll tax an extra 3.5% to pay for Social Security for the next seventy five years. […]

The New York Times has a wonderful graphic miss-urled How the Year You Were Born Influences Your Politics. Jon Chait points out that this URL (and a tweet) are accurate only if you are white (he doesn’t add that it only works if you are also a US citizen). I think you will enjoy clicking […]