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Looting Social Security: (the Basics Revisited, Again)

…its costs by looting the Social Security system. They are also targeting Medicare and Medicaid. The pitch sounds preposterous to millions of ordinary working people anxious about their economic security…

Cato Disinformation

…1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million to 4.9 million. If there had been another 20th century recession nearly as severe as…

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION vs REAL GDP

…computers and other office equipment, communication equipment and semiconductors. Over the last quarter century production of these high technology products has averaged about a 21% growth rate while all other…