Taxes and transfer programs cut the spending to the top 1 percent in half, but they double the consumption of those in the bottom fifth of the income distribution. From a forthcoming NBER study by Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler
By Larry Kotlikoff Originally posted at nextavenue, April 2017 Fidelity Investments recently released a survey about when Americans say they plan to start claiming Social Security and how much they kn
By John C. Goodman Originally posted at Forbes, September 2016 The room at the National Press Club in Washington DC was packed as Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff prepared to a
By John C. Goodman Originally posted at Forbes, July 2016 Here is something I bet you don’t know. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law a bill that wiped out more than $50 trillion in Med
