Privatizing Social Security, Part II

Comparing Returns

Usually, any opposition to Social Security privatization will use some kind of emotional argument about the risks of stock investing versus the absolute certainty of the safety net embodied by Social Security. They never seem to produce numbers to back up the claims, unless they cite specific days when the stock market performed especially poorly (i.e., any market crash day). You can just as easily pick days when the government performs poorly (e.g., missed someone’s paychec...