Perhaps there is a better approach to solving the Social Security instability problem. As the current Ponzi scheme relies on a dwindling number of payors to ...
Major program with Moyers- Ellen Schultz and a few others - http://www.pbs.org/now/science/heal...ts.html#schultz Retiree Health Benefits For many of America's...
From: donshuper [mailto:no_reply@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:09 AM Mr. Hubbard is assistant to the president for Economic Policy and ...
I guess it depepnds on how one parses the pubnlished statement about 4 percent OF HIS/HER PAYRLL TAXES. Keep in mind that the individual pays 6.2 percent and...
... Document Don, But you should be. :-) Being an unmoderated board (for the most part), we get into some very open and frank discussions. It isn't for...
From the Summary of the 2005 Annual Reports http://ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/trsummary.html ... Social Security could be brought into actuarial balance over the next ...
Well how about investing say 60 percent of the real $$ income in say 60 percent bonds / bond index funds and 40 percent " stock index funds " with the...
That is correct - I just met with Goss of SSA today = and while there is nothing in writing from anyone that goes beyond contribution in 2015 limit, he says he...
SSA Actuary Goss said today that he had put up (at that web site you linked to below) the SSA's Feb letter response of 18 possible changes to the system and...
True - Goss said the Bush folks are using a 50% equity, 50% not equity asset class split in their projections. The Dems have an interesting set of possible...
... out a ... House ... certain ... agreement with ... Will that private account plan include some type of government match? If so, I don't know how we can...
... And if he actually said that, did anyone challenge him on whether the resulting increase in American unemployment would decrease the amount of payroll...
He really said that !!!!! - He had two justifications for the 9.2% assumption One was the ability of US Corps to maintain the cost controls needed for ...
The Dem plan has variations - and I do not know which variation will be announced - or if the media/GOP will sign on. One variation is a first 20 years of life...
No challenges - the consulting actuary leading this cut off the Q&A after the one question challenging the assumption as to equity rate of return of 9.2%...
... the ... amount ... According to Willam's post #3413, the recently released 2005 trustee report used lower wage growth assumption (among others) that caused...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32732-2005Apr6.html ... By either the CBO or the Social Security trustees' estimates, the hit to the economy...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38725-2005Apr8.htm ... The difficulty is that this seemingly comfortable pattern can't go on indefinitely. I...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/opinion/12tue3.html ... A loophole in the law lets non-actuaries serve as chief actuaries at Medicare, Social Security and...
I find this interesting. One of the best managers I ever had was a people person, and knew very little of the job itself. Management has to due with business...
The ABCD committee "kicks out" perhaps 2 to 10 folks - sometimes a few more - a year where the kick can vary from a nasty letter that you must acknowledge and...
The head of the Social Security Administration - the Director - is political and never a techie. The Chief Actuary must assign, review, and pass up the line...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45305-2005Apr11.html ... The same people who insist that critics of Social Security privatization should offer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7528520/site/newsweek/ ... When the president argues for privatizing Social Security, he hammers home a single point: it's a better...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/politics/21memo.htm ... Markets go up and markets go down. But the slide over the last month on Wall Street is hardly good...
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/transcript29.html ... I know some Americans have reservations about investing in the stock market, so I propose that one...
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