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How Obama's Plan For Chained CPI Is Both A Stealth Tax On The Middle Class And A Cut In Benefits For Grandma
Switching to the Chained CPI immediately would have a more significant impact on the retirement inc…
Walter Hickey
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The Reason Chained CPI Hits Seniors So Hard Is The Same Reason It's So Good At Deficit Reduction
According to the Congressional Budget Office, on average the rate of chained CPI growth is 0.25% le…
Walter Hickey
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AARP Blasts Obama's Historic Plan To Cut Social Security
The AARP is also a major player on Capitol Hill. Last year, they spent $10 million lobbying Congres…
Walter Hickey
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Obama's New Budget Is Actually Giving Republicans Exactly What They Asked For In December
Republicans would push back on Sargent's argument with a common refrain — they already agreed to ne…
Brett LoGiurato
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Obama's Sneaky Way Of Cutting Veteran Benefits
No one’s ever going to come out and say "Hey, times are tough, we’re going to cut veterans benefits…
Walter Hickey
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Obama's Sneaky Way Of Cutting Veteran Benefits
No one's ever going to come out and say "Hey, times are tough, we're going to cut veterans benefits…
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Michele Bachmann Demonstrates Why We Can't Have A Real Conversation About Entitlements
Using Bachmann to characterize the entire party may not be fair, but it's not only her. Regarding h…
Danny Vinik
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One Of Obama's Major Allies Is Tearing Into His Plan To Change Social Security
The "chained" CPI is based on a fraudulent premise - that the CPI is rising faster than the actual …
Brett LoGiurato
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Conservative Group Slams GOP Congressman For Attacking Obama On Social Security
“Greg Walden doesn’t seriously oppose even the most modest of reforms to social security, right?” C…
Brett LoGiurato
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Obama Once Swore He'd Never Support The Social Security Cut He's Now Proposing
Beginning in 2015 the Budget would change the measure of inflation used by the Federal Government f…
Walter Hickey
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Obama Is Dropping A Controversial Provision From His Budget That Threatened A Liberal Revolt
"House Democrats have stood behind President Obama's honest efforts in recent years to forge a bipa…
Brett LoGiurato
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Liberals Are Already Freaking Out Over The Obama Budget's Social Security Cuts
"Millions of MoveOn members did not work night and day to put President Obama into office so that h…
Brett LoGiurato
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One Of Liberals' Worst Fears About Obama Came True
Eric Kingson, co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition and a professor at Syracuse Univ…
Brett LoGiurato
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Obama Calls For Social Security Cut - And Buries It At The Very Bottom Of The Announcement
The most controversial item in the budget is a new measure of indexing growth of Social Security pa…
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The Fed's favored inflation gauge is at its highest since 1992, but Goldman Sachs says this 'one-off inflationary boost' will soon flip to a 'one-off disinflationary drag'
The discrepancy between supply and demand in sectors like cars and chips pushed up inflation, but i…
Sophie Kiderlin
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Marco Rubio wants to make a huge change to the GOP tax bill - and Trump won't like it
The pair released their amendment on Wednesday, saying the change was "a chance to do better by wor…
Bob Bryan
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Liberals Furious Over Obama's Budget - Krugman Predicts Plan Will Blow Up In His Face
I am quite concerned by reports that the forthcoming White House budget proposal might include cha…
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Higher inflation is an underpriced risk and investors should hedge with these 5 assets, BlackRock says
"While we don't expect runaway inflation of the 1970s because of the impact of technology and demog…
Emily Graffeo
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Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is About To Screw Over The Very People Who Got Him Elected
MoveOn, PCCC, and Democracy for America are also threatening Democratic lawmakers against supportin…