The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2009 4:36 am by HL
The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells
What are we to make of yesterday’s report from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that Social Security will run out of assets in 2037, four years sooner than previously forecast, and Medicare’s hospital fund will…
What Part of Illegal Don’t Conservatives Understand — or Why do They Ignore Wage Theft
Wage theft is illegal. Yet rightwing politicians largely dismiss the problem and most systematically oppose laws to increase enforcement of wage laws. Yet at the same time in recent years, those conservative politicians have been attacking undocumented immigrants as…
Is there life after the crisis?
A lunch time talk by Niall Ferguson suggests a grim picture. Even if the world economy is not headed towards a 1930s-style catastrophe, it will remain mired in a “depression” like that experience in the 1870s, argues Ferguson, with long-term…