A fiscal disaster is going to explode in the not-too-distant future.

Do you want the bad news or the worse news?

Bureaucrats are making out like bandits

Lawmakers took a real step in the right direction.

Social Security deficits are going to explode in coming decades.

Jaw-dropping numbers European Commission’s Ageing Report.

One of the challenges of good entitlement reform (or even bad entitlement reform) is that recipients think they’ve “earned” benefits. If you tell them that programs such as Medicare are unsustainable and need to be changed, some of them suspect you’re trying to somehow cheat them. After all, they were forced to cough up payroll […]

Everyone has a cross to bear in life, some sort of burden or obligation, often self-imposed. For some inexplicable reason, I’ve decided that one of my responsibilities is to educate a backwards and primitive people who seem impervious to common sense, simple logic, and strong principles. As you’ve probably guessed already, I’m talking about Republicans. […]

I don’t give the issue much attention on this blog, but I’m very interested in Social Security reform. I wrote my dissertation on Australia’s very successful system of personal retirement accounts, for instance, and I narrated this video on Social Security reform in the United States. So I was very interested to see that the […]