Let me count the ways. He's ornery. He'll likely to kick you in the kneecaps if he gets riled. He has a tendency to stick his head in the sand when it comes to the fact that Social Security isn't viable in perpetuity the way it is currently structured. In his latest New York Times […]
If Krugman wrote columns like this one in Tuesday's New York Times I'd have to find another whipping boy. It's not that it's 100 percent accurate, or that there aren't some points that I disagree with, but, uncharacteristic of Krugman, it's reasonably fair. A few minor points of note about the latest column: Realistically, we […]
I've said before that Social Security is broken. It's a simple issue of demographics -- in coming years there won't be nearly enough workers to support the growing number retirees. Many officials have set the date that Social Security stops being able to pay its obligations at sometime in the 2040s or 2050s, depending on […]
One of the advantages of living on the West Coast is that you can start reading the next day's Washington Post and New York Times at 9 p.m. It's not quite an afternoon paper, but it's close enough. In tomorrow's New York Times, columnist and former Enron hack Paul "Line 47" Krugman assails any move […]