by Bruce Webb A curious feature of the battle over Social Security is that it is almost always a battle of adjectives and adverbs and not numbers, In particular almost…

…to both. Well the kindest answer is that after all those numbers were not in fact in the bag and that we should just defer to the professional judgement of…

…to be a really great economic year but the respective numbers turned out to be: 4.6%, 1.8%, 1.0%, 2.9%, that is while productivity lagged the other numbers came in pretty…

…to bring, CBO and OMB numbers start diverging broadly after that, if we were using CBO numbers for the Northwest Plan the cost of the fix would be roughly half…

…in inflation adjusted terms they never approach typical Bush II level unified deficits: all these numbers represent transfers from the General Fund. Numbers are in billions. Year:::::Current:::::Constant 2008 dollars 2017:::$24:::::::::::$19…

…something I [Kotlikoff] didn’t really say.” He has a point. I based my speculations about where he obtained his misleading numbers on an NPR summary of their interview with him….

…begin to, requires some tedious plodding through the numbers and concepts, but for those that do I hope you will understand with I used the descriptor and made the claim…

…the claims they receive. Aggregate numbers, however, shed no light on how denial rates may vary from plan to plan or across types of medical services. Some advocates say insurers…

…why are you doubling down based on that? As I say it all starts with the numbers, and in particular the numbers as seen in Table V.B1: Principal Economic Assumptions,…

…believe he is dead wrong. Very well informed and educated on the numbers, perhaps nobody better. But still wrong. He left the following in comments on Soc Sec XXII, and…