Social Security

Andrew Biggs has an interesting piece out at the American Enterprise Institute that has been generating some attention (see Ezra Klein’s comments here...

The Bottom Line continues its blog series highlighting our Ten Questions to Ask the Candidates ahead of the mid-term elections. 5. Strengthening...

Nine months since the creation of the Fiscal Commission, we are now just one month away from the scheduled release of its report/recommendations. For...

With the November elections just two weeks, demagoguing has reached a fever pitch. So, predictably, when the SSA sent a letter to Rep. Earl Pomeroy...

Following Friday's announcement by the Social Security Trustees that there would be no automatic increase for Social Security benefits in 2011 and the...

Loads of BCS – The first edition of this season’s rankings from the much-maligned BCS is now out. The system uses computer algorithms and polls to...

Today, the Social Security Trustees announced that for the second year in a row, there will be no additional cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for...

For most, the world of inflation statistics can be mind-numbing. Economists have developed a variety of indices. And there are three different ones...

They Did It! Kudos to the Esquire Budget Commission for releasing a budget plan this morning! Former Senators Gary Hart, Bill Bradley, Bob Packwood...

All of us here at CRFB would like to congratulate Peter Diamond, an MIT economist, on winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year. Diamond, along...

Social Security is getting a lot of attention these days. However, much of the discussion is centered on what not to do: don’t cut benefits; don’t...