Keyword: Social Security
Can Social Security Be Saved? (6/29/1999)
Social Security cannot be saved because ballooning Baby Boomer retirees will inevitably increase the financial burden on future workers
Keywords: baby boom, capital gains, demography, equity market, flow, privatizing, retirees, saving, Social Security, stock, trust fund
Eat Your Cake Now (11/2/2011)
Who doesn't like to eat their cake and have it at the same time?
Keywords: budget deficit, IOU, Social Security, Trust Fund
Eat Your Cake Now - cartoon transcript (6/22/2012)
Who doesn't like to eat their cake and have it at the same time?
Keywords: budget deficit, IOU, Social Security, Trust Fund
Ponzi Schemes (1/22/2010)
Medicare and Social Security are Ponzi schemes whose long-term financial viability depends on an ever larger body of later contributors paying off a much smaller body of earlier contributors.
Keywords: budget deficits, Medicare, Social Security, Treasury Bond, trust fund