January 27, 2005

THE NY TIMES continues its full court press against social security reform. Here, for example, is a scare piece on pension reform in Chile.

UPDATE: Fellow Bear Flagger Kevin Murphy emails:

The NY Times buries the lede on the Chilean pension privatization of 25 years ago, hiding the fact that it was a wild success except for those that evaded the system. To hear the Times spin it, it was a Pinochet plot to impoverish the masses or somesuch. I fisk in detail.
Find the fisking here. Posted by Greg Ransom