Ron’s 2025 Reading List
I’ve been following the topics of politics and climate change for over forty years, and I’ve wondered how people come to the opposite conclusions when looking at the same data.

A Walk Down Memory Lane
In 1965 I was studying for a degree in Engineering. In order to broaden my horizons, I took a course in economics; the textbook was Paul Samuelson’s “Economics.” Samuelson was a proponent of Keynesian theories, many of which John Maynard Keynes developed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Basic Financial Maxims
I often see people in their sixties and seventies making basic financial mistakes, even though they may know better. We all need to be reminded of the basics, even if we already know them.

Employment Costs: 1996, 2006, 2019
What it costs an employer to pay a salary.

Social Security Revisited
Let’s review Social Security in the aggregate—that is, what does the whole program look like?

U.S. Workers are Owners
The data … ranks the top 100 U.S. privately managed retirement funds and their sponsors, along with the assets (in millions) in the fund.

U.S. Personal Consumption
Pie charts of U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Per Capita: 1950, 1980, and 2010.