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Should The Social Security Trust Fund Be Allowed to Invest In Stocks?

TedTed
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FYI: There isn’t a lot of common ground between the detractors and proponents of investing some of the Social Security trust fund’s assets in stocks.

On the one side are those who can’t believe anyone would even consider such an idea; on the other side are those who say the detractors are overreacting. After all, no one is proposing that 100% of the Social Security kitty be plowed into stocks, or used for day trading, they say.
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Ted
https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-the-social-security-trust-fund-be-allowed-to-invest-in-stocks-1491790740

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  • LewisBraham
    edited April 2017
    Why are these Social Security proposals always floated right when markets are peaking instead of at their bottoms like in 2009? Also, if you are a regulator looking to investigate Microsoft, Exxon or Bank of America for dirty dealing, what sort of political pressure would be applied to you to not pursue your investigation if the entire nation's retirement benefit will be negatively affected by your investigation? Aren't there enough conflicts of interest tying Washington to the private sector as it is? it's funny how the author of the Cato Institute is worried about the government's potentially undue influence on the stock market. I am worried about the reverse--the stock market's undue influence on our government. They should stay separate.
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