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CBO: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security

Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security Andrew Biggs in Treatment of uncertainty in new CBO Social Security projections directs our attention to the new release from the Congressional Budget Office….

Prognostications January to August

…here laughing maniacally and feeling good about all the emotional and economic suffering in the US while millionaire financial analysts continue to get it wrong. Update: The latest inflation release

Should Congress make the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent?

from ataxingmatter Should Congress make the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent? Back in April, the Joint Economic Committee put out a press release and report on the Bush Tax cuts. We…

Medicare Reform Working Group

…to meetings. In the end, we’ll issue a report, and then we’ll get together and host a conference with keynote speakers and panels. (See our Press Release below for more…

Soc Sec XXXVI: $17 trillion backward transfer

…not particularly concerned with the text quoted which actually amounts to some AP guy’s take on an advance copy of what the Academy will actually release. ‘Bankrupt’ is as likely…

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

…state, and metropolitan areas, as well as in publications using IC data and interactive data tools. IC data files are not available for public release. Other MEPS Components MEPS also…

Renegotiating NAFTA: It’s not just for the US any more

…Canada could reduce exports for the sake of conservation or environmental policy, or whether we could prioritize our dwindling natural gas reserves for domestic value-added production, or even for household…

Running on air

…that run on air. The idea sounds simple: compress air and release it to operate a piston engine. But the execution is difficult, and in one form or another it…