Health Care Spending
…data looks like when I add drugs into the data. It does not change my problem much. This chart implies that despite the aging of the baby boomer generation that…
…data looks like when I add drugs into the data. It does not change my problem much. This chart implies that despite the aging of the baby boomer generation that…
…achieve rising family incomes then it was for the previous generation. Obviously, the dominant long term factor driving this trend is the sharp slowing of productivity growth since the 1970s….
…be because stress disorders are much better understood now than they were a generation ago, advocates say. “There’s something about going back, and a third and a fourth time, that…
…the industry’s output, as measured by the government, is probably overstated. Sign 2: Products are rapidly replaced by new and improved models. For consumers, having the latest generation of cell…
…As I read this paper it made me think about the European economies who have been focusing on alternative energy development, wind in Denmark, solar in Germany, (Japan), wave generation…
…troops than admitted by the powers that be. Fourth generation warfare demands re-thinking some of our priorities, especially by proponents of global conflict and defense who demand sacrifice. Especially before…
…are masking the General Fund deficits. These Social Security surpluses, however, are only pre-funding the retirement benefits for the baby boom generation. The other part of what is going on…
…households have incomes level below $25,000 per year. The poor may be better off today than they were a generation ago but they are not better off than they were…
…Richard Musgrave in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that made the same essential point – governments share in risk-taking through taxation. While Domar & Musgrave made their argument a generation…
…has been incorrect, what’s unsustainable is not the deficit itself, but the causes of it. Actually, we should be praising Martin Feldstein for his wisdom a generation ago – as…