We looked at a paper Hoshi & ItoNote that argues Japan’s budget deficits are not sustainable, indeed that without adjustment bond issues will exceed total…
Month: March 2017
Social Security is at the center of many current debates, with many politicians and citizens arguing that the program will become unsustainable in the near…
Real estate usually makes up 15%-18% of America’s GDP. This number is broken down into 3%-5% from “Residential Investment” and 12%-13% from “Consumption Spending on…
In 2015, 65.1 million people received benefits from the Social Security Administration and this number is constantly increasing. As we’ve talked about in class, the…
As I stated in my comment in the previous blog post, I was surprised that healthcare was not among the top two expenditures on the…
One of the things that intrigued me in class this week was thinking about the spending habits of those in retirement age. During a person’s…