by Bruce Webb From Newsweek’s The Stumper (h/t slinkerwink’s diary at dKos) Okay nobody expected Sarah Palin to be the sharpest political crayon in the box, but surely someone on…

…interesting in learning about the true state of Social Security’s financial health can find out by looking at the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s website. Angry Bear Bruce Webb and reader…

By Bruce Andrew Biggs directs our attention to a new detailed PRA plan by Mark Warshawsky, a member of the Social Security Advisory Board: Notes on SS Reform: Actuaries Score…

bruce is wrong i think about the drumbeat to fix entitlements as well. Ornstein yesterday in the Oregonian was saying that entitlements were the big problem facing the new administration,…

…I may play a poor man’s Bruce Webb, let me wonder about the following… Say that the president and the cheerleaders, the folks who gave us this bail-out, had succeeded…

…However, such these labels do not accurately describe either candidate. And it does not fully portray the candidate, Mr Obama, who has the more optimistic vision of trade. The conventional…

…hilzoy, and Paul Krugman in posts, and of course the gang in comments. Update 4: Bruce Webb on Social Security is the best you can find anywhere for accurate thinking…

…to interpret what it even means. Which I can only interpret as ‘Bruce is a dummy’. Well lets try saying that in numbers. If we look at the Bush years…

18 expert panelists on GAO report on cap and trade versus carbon taxes. Joseph Aldy, Resources for the Future James Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richard Howarth, Dartmouth College Bruce…

by Bruce Webb Andrew Biggs at his site Notes on Social Security Reform spotted and copied a remarkable article from the WSJ under the title Obama’s Social Security Plan Draws…