Trump nominated E.J. Antoni two weeks after firing Erika McEntarfer, accusing her of rigging job report numbers to make him ...

On its 90th anniversary, Social Security faces the possible arrival in a key position of an economist who proposes its ...

Frequent right-wing media guest and Project 2025 contributor E.J. Antoni — President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Bureau ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) also publishes updates on the program’s finances and how long its funds are expected to last — transparency you won’t get from a Ponzi scheme.

The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it's a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But these dividends don't come ...

There isn't a social program in this country that improves the financial well-being of Americans quite like Social Security. According to an analysis conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy ...

That fact, combined with the reality that Social Security operates largely on a model whereby today's workers pay the costs of today's retirees, leads many people to call it a Ponzi scheme.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) also publishes updates on the program’s finances and how long its funds are expected to last — transparency you won’t get from a Ponzi scheme.

Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme? That entirely depends upon your meaning of the phrase. If you use the term loosely to describe current investors relying on more future investors, it is.

Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme? That entirely depends upon your meaning of the phrase. If you use the term loosely to describe current investors relying on more future investors, it is.

A Ponzi scheme, on the other hand, will lie through its teeth in its accounting and projections to try to encourage you to "invest" more in it. Third, Social Security is a mandatory program for ...