…increasingly concentrated in the hands of a relatively small, elite group. Recent research by Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon of Northwestern University has found that income in the top one…

…Gary Becker – that rational individuals who have private retirement savings already select an optimal mix of expected return and portfolio risk. On the other extreme, the Cato free lunch…

…reformed by giving workers the option of shifting all or part of their payroll taxes into privately invested accounts. I don’t see Gary Becker or Robert Barro on this list,…

…criticized. We have noted that conservative economist Robert Barro rejected this free lunch claim in July 2000, and that Gary Becker rejected it in February 2005. It was the Cato…

…Barro’s 7/3/2000 Business Week op-ed as well as Gary Becker’s 2/22/2005 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Yet, the Cato-Club for Growth crowd continues to argue for a free lunch without ever…

…why should we assume that rational individuals would wish to have their overall retirement portfolio risk rise in this way. We have noted repeatedly the Barro-Becker position that individuals would…

…really agreeing with the Barro-Becker no free lunch proposition (as I do), then his real complaint should be with the Cato crowd that convinced George W. Bush there is some…

…lunch positions put forth by Robert Barro and Gary Becker. And even if he shares the DeLong-Smetters view that there is risk arbitrage benefit, he is aware of Clinton’s proposals…

…own your Social Security retirement funds. I’ll skip my usual Barro-Becker sermon of why this is funny finance and just go to this story highlighted by the same blogger: “Add-on…

…her top critic” David Dayen, “Salon” 2. “At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda” Tom Hamburger and Alexander Becker, “The Washington Post” 3. “Obama’s Student-Debt Fix…