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Social Security For The Young

…we balancing the budget on the backs of the aged and sick, leaving behind society’s most vulnerable?” Arguing for the motion will be Fox “News” commentator Margaret Hoover and U.S….

Deficit Nonsense in the WSJ

…Steps to Reduce Budget Deficit.” It isn’t that unusual for headlines to contradict the stories they head, but usually the evidence quoted in the article supports the article and not…

hundreds of billions = 0 ?

…improve the nation’s budget outlook, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday. So “little” has become none. The abstract contradicts the actual story. Finally well down in the story we get to…

FEDERAL DEFICIT

In Linda’s post on the budget deficit in the comments it was claimed that the budget deficit was Obama’s fault and a chart was cited that showed the deficit in…

Greenspan Commission Staff Alumni on Bi-Partisan Commissions

…as an linkable online Doc: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc36qc9g_1crqqnpdt ) STATEMENT OF STAFF TO THE 1981-83 NATIONAL COMMISSION ON SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM HEARING ON BIPARTISAN PROCESS PROPOSALS FOR LONG-TERM FISCAL STABILITY THE BUDGET

Marginal Cost

budget. A condition for profit maximization is that one gets the same ticket sales X by cutting the price of a ticket by Y and cutting the advertising budget by…

Medical Innovation in the USA

…the combined R&D budgets of all pharmaceutical companies in the USA. The US public sector spends huge amounts of money funding medical research. The NIH budget is just gigantic compared…

In Defense of Sarah Palin

…any more debt than what is assumed in the Administration’s Budget over the next 10 years—the President achieves ‘‘maximum possible debt retirement’’ in his budget. And the longer he stuck…