This paper uses the Auerbach-Kotlikoff Dynamic Life-Cycle Model (AK Model) to examine the macroeconomic and efficiency effects of privatizing social security, and a simple privatization proposal, the ...
This paper uses a large-scale overlapping generations model that features intragenerational heterogeneity to show that privatizing the U.S. Social Security System could be done on a progressive basis.
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, has accused her Republican rival, Tom Watson, of supporting the privatization of Social Security. “Mr. Watson has stated on more than one occasion the past few ...
The one consistent fact I’ve seen over the years is that many, though not all, Republicans in Congress have proposed cutting or privatizing Social Security and Medicare. That’s not my opinion.
Social Security Advisory Board nominee Andrew Biggs ... funds to a private savings account – in other words you advocated privatizing Social Security.” Profit and prosper with the best of ...
Too bad Sen. Mary Landrieu and three-term State Treasurer John Kennedy didn’t get that memo. Landrieu’s latest round of attack ads claims Kennedy has “flip-flopped” his position on Social Security ...