…lower than the 0.70 shortfall estimated in the 2022 report. Under the Medicare Actuary’s illustrative alternative projections, the HI shortfall would be 1.46 percent of payroll.” me: note again 0.62%…

…the article was there any questioning of the idea that the Fed should be at the helm of inflation-fighting—that perhaps there’s an alternative, one less painful for the majority of…

…to boost an alternative market of ACA-noncompliant plans. As each part keeps ballooning as I write it, we’ll leave other administrative changes, loosening requirements on insurers and tightening them on…

…of price controls Scare tactics:  Claim that proposals for price controls signal the impending end of civilization Present a constructive alternative:  Come up with an alternative proposal that is responsive…

– by New Deal democrat As we all know by now, there is no US jobs report today due to the government shutdown. But there are a number of alternative…

If nothing is done, the Social Security Trust Fund will be depleted by ca. 2035 and projected retirement benefits will drop by ca. 20%. What are the alternatives? The favorite…

…newly-issued government bond, you’re not funding/financing/incentivizing real private-sector investment in productive/useful capacity. (Though in one accounting view, you could argue that you’re “funding” government investment.) So in a very real…

…today in his bid to succeed Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. See, e.g., Rubin & Klimasinska, Lew Says He Didn’t Know Money-Losing Investment Was in Caymans, Bloomberg.com (Feb. 13, 2013)…

…extent that information about them is publicly available. Romney is now likening overseas bank accounts and shell/money-laundering corporations to investing in real overseas companies—as if investments in overseas companies guarantee…

…almost-ubiquitous notion that more saving increases the supply of “loanable funds” — hence that more saving causes or at least allows more investment. (The absolute classic fallacy of the S=I…