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Do Carve-out Returns Exceed Add-on Returns?

The Club for Growth Social Security blog has some funny finance. Andrew Roth pushes Cato’s Daily Debunker, which wants you to believe that you get a better return if you…

Privatization: Becker v. Snow & A Dead Parrot

…the fact that the bonds in the Trust Fund earn interest. And in case, the Cato crowd wishes to claim that returns on private accounts are higher than returns in…

DeMint’s Social Security Proposal

…an old Archer-Shaw proposal that was strongly criticized by Andrew Biggs in this Cato publication: The Archer-Shaw plan would let individuals make investment decisions, thereby reducing the likelihood of political…

Lies, Direct from the President’s Mouth From Bush’s MTP appearance this morning: RUSSERT: But your base conservatives, and listen to Rush Limbaugh, the Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, they’re all saying…

…unrelated to 9/11 will total roughly $1.6 trillion by the end of the decade. As noted by the Cato Institute, President Bush must share the blame for this. He has…

…essay (titled “‘Conservative’ Bush Spends More than ‘Liberal’ Presidents Clinton, Carter”) from the libertarian Cato Institute falls into the category of man and dog doing something that keeps Ricky S….

…respect the need to curb long term deficit spending and come down on the side of the CATO institute as much as the ACLU when it comes to civil liberties…are…