By Menzie Chinn and Mark Copelovitch
A Harris administration is far less likely to disrupt the ongoing and unprecedented American economic recovery of the last three years with stark policy reversals. This is an expanded version of an op-ed published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
At least for today. From CNN:
Today we present a guest post written by Lindsay Jacobs, Assistant Professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Americans are living longer and retiring earlier. But how, as an individual or as a country, can you finance a 30-year retirement with a 40-year career? Stanford Professor John Shoven recently visited UCSD and presented some interesting policy suggestions.
Just how much has the U.S. government promised to pay?
I would like to join Felix Salmon [1],
[2]
in suggesting that Dean Baker has mischaracterized both Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s remarks to the Congress as well as the substantive policy questions on the table.
Precisely because several of the initiatives on Social Security seem to have stalled, the
time may be ripe for some real progress to be made.
Having raised public awareness about the longer term challenges of funding Social Security, the Republicans now ride boldly to the rescue with– a new accounting gimmick. To the extent that it amounts to anything more than that, I’m a little worried.