Update: By Dale Coberly (was inadvertently omitted as author, although regulars know and the label names him) SOCIAL SECURITY: IT’S JUST MATH or how to lie with numbers “Math doesn’t…

…label,” said one official familiar with the talks, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations were private. Check the quotes. A Obama administration source linked the words “stimulus”…

…really can’t know until we look systematically: 1. Do Democrats and Republicans in the different branches deliver systematically different results in spending, revenues, and deficits (and more tenuously, second-order effects…

…budget deficit, are we comforted by what the presidential candidates are proposing? Few track this and those who do, such as The Nielsen Co., are tight-lipped about the data except…

…income… Barro and Prescott might fire back that rational individuals can hold risk-free assets – and in fact would. So why does David label my proposition “highly dubious”? Brad himself…

…want to end the deficit spending that’s ballooned since Ronald Reagan – though Conservatives want to do it typically by cutting spending, and Liberals want to do it typically by…

…2025 and creating deficits. There is a solution to all of this. Passed under Reconciliation, Trumps Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was to pay for itself with increased productivity…