…all Americans will “bear the burden”, since their favorite singer, surgeon, orthodontist or others will provide fewer services. He assumes a tax rate of 39.5% (highest federal rate) plus 1.2%…

…ostensible purpose of insurance. Disease prevention and health promotion over the life cycle should and would be the objective of any health insurer likely to bear the costs of all…

by Bruce Webb Regular readers of Angry Bear will be familiar with bond trader turned blogger Bruce Krasting and his, can we say non-standard conclusions about Social Security solvency. Well…

…the Angry Bear blog. In fact, the graph above by itself answers one of the objections – I was told many times that FDR only produced faster growth because the…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter What caused the Budget Deficit (Before the Financial Crisis)? Kash on Angry Bear put together a really good graph in 2006 comparing where we…

…Bear posts, but I think I’m starting to manage to put it into a more coherent narrative. And as I’m able to do that, I’m able to move slowly to…

…of Republican administrations. Two notable exceptions are Truman and Obama, but for the latter only one year of data is available at this time. Bear in mind that FDR also…

…(For some earlier takes on this you might want to consult the first series of: http://bruceweb.blogspot.com/2008/05/social-security-posts-on-angry-bear.html, particularly VI, VII, and XII and then maybe follow up with selected posts from…

I mentioned I would be going into the archives to re-post some of Angry Bear’s explanatory writing in the 2004/05 time period. The first was written by Kash in early…

…imagine from the fact that I occasionally post at Angry Bear, are generally slightly left of center. And when this project started some years ago, I hewed closely to what…