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On Unemployment: Why would some compare dissimilar calculations of economic statistics?

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.

The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people
from the political, economic and/or military consequences.

Joseph Goebbels

Statistics mask real economic pain

The jobless rate improved this week. It’s now [...]

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Have we reached the point of Diminishing returns?

…The Diminishing Productivity of Debt Chart
comes from the U.S. Treasury’s latest Z1 data…

…the most important chart of your lifetime.

It relegates almost all modern economists and economic theory
to the dustbin of history.

Any economic theory, formula, or relationship
that does not consider this non-linear relationship of DEBT and phase transition
is [...]

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Sobering Thoughts on the Demographics of the Baby Boom, Savings, Entitlement Benefits and Monetary Policy

If workers earn, pay taxes, spend, save and invest,
while retirees divest, downsize, budget
and draw income and healthcare benefits,
what’s going to happen when more retirees want
what fewer workers may not be able to deliver?

It is incumbent on government to convey to future retirees
that the real resources currently promised to be available on retirement,
will not [...]

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Has Globalization Peaked?

 …If historians look back on today’s severe downturn
with its crumbling markets, rising unemployment and massive government interventions
 they could well be busy analyzing how globalization,
 the spread of trade, finance, technology
and the movement of people around the world went into reverse…

…For generations, the deficits that we have run this past decade
and the trillions [...]

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If the Social Security Trust Fund was spent, was it stolen?

The most reprehensible fraud…
is the systematic and total ransacking of the Social Security trust fund…
the Social Security payroll tax has become a money machine
for the US  Treasury
generating fantastic revenue surpluses
in excess of the costs of the Social Security program…

The public fully supported enactment
of hefty new Social Security taxes in 1983
to ensure the retirement program’s long-term [...]

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Social Security II

  

Should US entitlement costs exceed incoming revenues
sooner than anticipated
if millions of Boomers involuntarily retire early
as national, state and local debt levels spike
coincident with evaporating income? 

If workers earn, pay taxes, spend, save and invest
while retirees divest, downsize, budget
and draw income [...]

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On the Graduating Class of 2010

A Lament for the Class of 2010: New college graduates face a labor force that neither wants or needs them; a plum job interning at a street fair

…hundreds of thousands of Millennials graduate from institutions of higher learning…Then they will enter a labor force that neither wants nor needs them.

They will enter an economy where roughly [...]

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If borrowing to pay for tax cutshelps an economy in the short rundo unpaid for tax cutsretard growth in the long run?

The Laffer Curve, anyone know what this says?

 

It says that at this point on the revenue curve

you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at [...]

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Ross Douthat on Class and Generational Conflict

The Class War We Need

The rich are different from you and me. They know how to game the system.

…Americans with million-dollar mortgages are defaulting at almost twice the rate of the typical homeowner.

It suggests an infuriating scenario in which the average American slaves away…while fat cats and high fliers cut their losses and [...]

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