The fact that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme isn’t necessarily fatal.

Why should we try to be like Europe?

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.

Is all hope lost?

Only some of these are really rights.

A parody of Keynesian 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 […]