cooking SS numbers

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Tue Jan 4 16:29:23 PST 2000


Brad DeLong wrote:


> Well, we got mostly bad news about economic growth from 1980 to 1994.
> I think that the Social Security actuaries' estimates of productivity
> growth, immigration, and life expectancy are all too low. But I do
> not believe that the trustees alter the assumptions: when I was in
> Washington the assumptions that came out of the trustees' meeting
> were the assumptions that went in...
>
>

Then why are the actuaries' recommendations kept secret?

Seth



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