Category: Economics
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Busting the Medicare “Crisis” Myth – Again
I’ll be presenting to the Senior Coordinating Aging Network (SCAN) – Wayne County Thursday, January 23, 2014. It’s a slightly shorter version of the the Busting the Medicare Myths I gave last fall. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering…
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Busting the Medicare Myths
I’ll be presenting to the Michigan Intergenerational Network again Wednesday, November 13. This time the talk is about Busting the Medicare Myths. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering intended to cut benefits for seniors. The reality is more complex and…
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Reprise: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
Today, I reprised my presentation from last July to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. This time the setting and audience was a guest lecture to the Madonna University Gerontology Dept.’s Policy The…
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Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
I gave a presentation today to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. The Powerpoint file, MIN-IntergenerationalTransferPrograms-30jul2013 is available here. An overview of the talk below the fold:
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Canadian Economics Conference
Attended the Canadian Economics Associaton annual Conference at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CND, on May 28-31, 2009. Info here.
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Econproph quoted
woohoo. my post on GM at my blog econproph.com has been quoted/linked on Angry Bear, 1 of 10 top econ/finance blogs in world