Just Like Trump and Obama, Biden s Making This Social Security Mistake
07/12/21 AT 1:02 AM
Few things in Washington are truly bipartisan, and when it comes to Social Security, the two major parties have very different positions. But there s one thing that the White House consistently does regardless of which party its resident belongs to: failing to require the trustees they appoint to oversee the Social Security Trust Fund issue their annual Trustees Report before the deadline the law requires.
The 2021 version of the trustees report is now more than three months late. President Joe Biden s administration is getting off to the same start that former presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama did, and retirees can only hope things will get better in future years.
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The U.S. economy is at a fork in the road.
One route leads to the return of market fundamentals and sane stock valuations, at the cost of a historic market correction.
The other route leads to runaway hyperinflation that eats up the debt almost as fast as it devours the dollar’s buying power. That would likely cause the dollar to lose its hegemony as global reserve currency
and bring about a simultaneous market collapse.
Here’s where we are, and where we might be going…
How did we get here?
For the most part, through Fed interventions that suppressed interest rates for the last 13 years, creating artificial demand for U.S. IOUs in the form of bonds, and generally maintaining an “easy money” policy. (And let’s not forget the hundreds of millions of stimulus checks, unemployment extensions, fraud-riddled Payroll Protection Program and the other boondoggles associated with the pandemic lockdown.)