The Federal Government is Bankrupt




Words & Numbers show

Summary:  It's a well-established fact that Social Security and Medicare are in serious trouble and have been for a while. It seemed so easy to just take that money from the Social Security and Medicare trusts at the time, but with federal spending now higher than it's ever been. It seems very unlikely that that money will—or even can—ever be paid back. Join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they talk about this and more on this week's special live-from-FEEcon episode of Words and Numbers.