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Social Security 101: Arming for Battle

…starting with Social Security: Simple Story vs. Myth Busting but I would suggest making a first stop at Lee A. Arnold’s animation Social Security: a Polemic (in Ecolanguage) At this…

Minimum Wage: the Jimmy the Stock Boy Fallacy

…don’t understand that minimum wages are net negative for workers are irrational to the extent that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote (as advocated in Myth of the Rational Voter)…

Big Three

the banking system and seeing very little results, is now besieged with requests to help Detroit. Does this make sense? First, a myth: The Big 3 have made no changes…

Soc Sec XV: Why do they care?

…Marek’s mothership mises.org). The question of ‘Why now?’ is itself explained by this 1998 article from our friends at Cato The Myth of the 2.2% Solution. On my reading they

Social Security again and again

Adding to the pile on with PGL, that the so called demographic bulge is a myth for social security, and perhaps Medicare and Medicaid. CBO reports clearly Rising health care…

FDR and CAPITAL SPENDING IN THE DEPRESSION

the argument that FDR scared businessmen and capitalist into not investing is strictly a myth that is not at all supported by the data. Compared to post WW II cycles…