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Soc Sec XIX: Narratology of ‘Crisis’

…over 30’ (until of course we started turning 30 in 1976). Did we deserve being called self-absorbed, I daresay we did. But did we deserve the label of ‘selfish’. Well…

Stealth

…return signal will be Doppler shifted. The Doppler problem is a frequency pass filter problem which is has been solved for about a century and such that modern electronic equipment…

The Fed didn’t announce QE2

…current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities. The Fed announcement is NOT a second version of quantitative easing (QE2). Quantitative…

Is Social Security too big to NOT fail?

…http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r49_nOHQG4QdHuwcbMGmP0Q The column fourth from the Right is labeled Trust Fund Ratio and if graphed would show a perfect shape, a Trust Fund topping out with a ratio of 375…