Brad DeLong suggests that now might be a good time to take the Social Security Trust Fund balance out of treasuries and put it into equity. I agree. In general, this is a policy that’s never gotten the level of consideration that it deserves. And as Brad says, right now is a great buy low, sell high opportunity for the government.
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