Has the effort to create a “Family Friendly Hungary” been successful?

How to take advantage of Russia’s grim demographics.

A recipe for long-run fiscal crisis in almost all developed nations.

We don’t want to “catch up” to nations that have lower levels of prosperity.

Good news is that awareness of the problem is growing.

There is a solution to both Europe’s and America’s woes.

This issue is global.

The challenge when people are having fewer children and living longer.

There’s no political party in Italy that wants to solve the problem of excessive spending.

Before our depressing discussion today about the fiscal impact of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, Food Stamps, welfare, and Obamacare, etc), here’s a video of how it all began. I think this is a great introduction to the issue, particularly since you learn how “public choice” (i.e., politicians engaging in self-serving behavior) played a key role in the development […]