Halloween has come early this year for Wall Street Democrats who are busy disguising their plans to gut Social Security as "progressive"--and smearing Social Security while they're at it.
Ezra Klein has a prominently displayed piece in the Washington Post this morning, entitled The Pro-Social Security case for Social Security reform. He takes to task liberals most committed to Social Security for being unwilling to “reform” Social Security out of fear that reform would turn out to harm the system. more »
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moslereconomics.com — Critical commentary by Warren Mosler on the recent statement by 11 former Chairpersons of the Council of Economic Advisers on the need for austerity policies such as those recommended in the Bowles - Simpson Report.
moslereconomics.com — This is a commentary on Greg Mankiw's fictional 2026 Presidential Address on catastrophic austerity. Warren Mosler gives us a paragraph-by-paragraph critique from the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) point of view.
I'm writing a series of posts as a blogging fellow for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of more than 270 national and state organizations. more »
Over the last couple of weeks there's been an exchange between Charles Krauthammer writing in one of the austerity mongers' favorite newspapers and Jack Lew, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), writing at the OMB blog. This exchange illustrates a kerfuffle, that ignores the real issue surrounding entitlements and fiscal responsibility. more »
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