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Oh, wondering one. You perhaps did not realize that abortion is legal in the United States. You are therefore forgiven.

OK. I think it was the wording that seemed not right. So what they are saying is that when those who are now under 62 1/2 reach retirement age they will have a maximum ROI of 2 %. This is odd. What is the age at which the ROI is 2 % , probably at life expectancy I would assume, and for what...

What are Trumps ideas, anyway? And which day are we talking about. Oh, I think I remember now. "Build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it." Or how about rebuild our "depleted military", I mean "really, really, badly depleted"! Now there's an Idea #**##*!! Boing Bing Boom. Or how 'bout "lock...

Yah right, Trump just told the plain the truth, and the media had the balls to suggest he was lying. Yah , right. the media started it.

Very much so! And he is even fucking that up. :D

I stand corrected. You are quite correct. You brought protection that, as it turned out, you couldn't use. It is the same for example if you were to buy disability insurance, but never had the ill fortune to become disabled.

What does this mean, exactly. Do you know???

It is a popular exercise to look at the total return for of S.S. compared to total contributions for those dying at a specified age, usually their life expectancy. These kinds of comparisons are not particularly useful however because returns on social security are based on ones earning history...

Well we will know for sure next year. Why not just wait until then to decide if our resident is popular or not? I hope you're as pleased about the "really great" health care plan that Trump will replace Obamacare with. That should be something that will firmly "cement" his popularity!;)

Thank you attempting a balanced look at the arguments. We must recognize that their is a serious conflict of interest behind the calls for privatizing social security. Yet we should not dismiss the idea out of hand. Although I have dismissed it myself, it is only after many many hours of study...

Two important points I would like to make. One is that the viewpoint that the only group that makes out in regards to Social Security would be the lower middle class is true only if one considers only the material aspects, which will sadly be true of most of us. I will also add that even if...

When Herman Mark left Austria in 1938, after the Nazi invasion, he drew platinum into wire in his lab, made coat hangers, and he and his family put their clothes on the hangers and marched themselves right out of Nazi controlled Austria. Eventually he made it to Brooklyn. Interestingly, when...

Sorry, I forgot to mention this. Please pay attention to the dates at the bottom of the bars in the graphs above. What you are looking at is a graphical depiction of the effect of ignoring the S.S. actuaries. (I like to describe it as what happens if Wall Street gets its way.) Look at other...

The Wall Street campaign against S.S. has been amazingly successful. For those that want accurate information on ROI, the information and studies are out there. Studies that include segment of the income spectrum not included in the above studies. Do a search and you will find them. In the...

I think you nailed it!

I see no reason that Lady Gaga can't fill in, and do an even better job of representing what it was that O'Reilly represented, whatever that was. Does anyone know? Has an offer gone out yet to Lady Gaga? Why not just hire her?

Thanks for your comments. Always instructive, useful, and appreciated.

Which do you prefer, statements I pull out of thin air, or statements Trump pulls out of his ass? :D

In is my none too humble opinion that a good working knowledge of basic macroeconomic principles is one of the keys to successful trading and investing except perhaps short term trading, where it is not so important, but still helpful. But I would caution you regarding using anything from...

I have often wondered about this. I am not a bond trader. I'm guessing you are, as you seem knowledgeable re bond markets. Here is what I have wondered about. Is it that Japanese savers can't find the bonds to buy or is it that they don't want them with interest rates so low. During QE...