Preface -- The coming financial crisis : it's worse than you think -- Is the United States becoming Greece? -- The debt deniers -- It's about entitlements, stupid -- Social security : facing up to ponzi -- Medicare: the 800/pound gorilla -- Medicaid : strike two for government health care --...

The U.S. government is about to exceed its statutory debt limit of $14.3 trillion. But that actually underestimates the size of the fiscal time bomb that this country is facing. If one considers the unfunded liabilities of programs such as Medicare and Social Security, the true national debt...

Opponents of allowing younger workers to privately invest a portion of their Social Security taxes through personal accounts have long pointed to the supposed riskiness of private investment. The volatility of private capital markets over the past several years, and especially recent declines in...

Recently there has been much debate over whether Social Security is or is not a Ponzi scheme.Clearly Social Security has many structural characteristics that resemble those of the classic Ponzi or pyramid scheme. For example, like a Ponzi scheme, Social Security does not actually save or invest...