… its balance sheet, and maintaining a relatively large balance … a number of options for dealing
with short-term increases in … the $2.9 trillion it owes the OASDI trust funds, all of which the …

… /Miliband Trust for a grant towards research into … funds, if not all of it, goes to these
intermediaries, rather than to the holders of the pension plans who face a bemusing array of choices …

… for many agents to make rational choices even when they have the … buffer fund value at
December 31, a three-year average of the buffer fund should be used for calculating the balance …

… It would bring Social Security into longrun fiscal balance by … , go into dedicated trust funds
that finance specific programs—… from policy choices and economic events over a long period. …

… The OASDI 75-year long-range actuarial balance was –1.89 percent in 2000 and –… funding
or by Social Security actuaries for determining Social Security’s long-range actuarial balance. …

… Bringing the Social Security and HI trust funds into financial balance through tax increases,
benefit reductions, or some combination of the two would avoid that assumed borrowing and …

… As policymakers consider restoring financial balance to Social … short time horizon with a
larger tax increase or over a longer … Within these two broad approaches, alternatives exist for …

… —are slated to exhaust their balances within the next 15 years… of the economy and policy
makers’ choices. The question is, … For Medicare and OASDI, I project all elements of spending …

… recent US monetary-fiscal choices in light of precedents set by … that have borrowed short
term to finance long-term loans have … 15As we can see in figure 4, the Fed’s balance sheet is a …

… -Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI), we project all … Budget balances (rainy day
funds plus general fund surpluses) … analysis built on alternatives for the near-term recovery. …