The 2025 Social Security COLA increase is a sick joke.
If you’re unfamiliar, COLA stands for “cost of living adjustment,” and it’s designed to keep up with inflation. In theory, there should be nothing controversial about this, but in practice? Well, that’s a different story. Our analysts have traveled the world over, dedicated to finding the best and most profitable investments in the global energy markets. All you have to do to join our Energy and Capital investment community is sign up for the daily newsletter below.
According to a study published by the Senior Citizens League, from 2000–2023, the buying power associated with social security benefits has decreased by 36%. Check it out…
Soaring inflation over the past two years has deeply weakened the buying power of Social Security benefits, particularly for the oldest and disabled adults who have received benefits the longest. This latest research on the buying power of Social Security benefits finds that older adults who retired before 2000 (now age 85 and older) have lost 36% of their buying power and would need an extra $516.70 more per month ($6,200 more in 2023) than they are currently getting to maintain the same level of buying power as in 2000.
The Senior Citizens League also noted that nearly 70% of senior citizens reported a 10% increase in their monthly bills from 2022–2023. That year, the COLA clocked in at 8.7%, so heading into 2025, Social Security payments are already falling short of keeping up with inflation.
2025 Social Security COLA Increase Won’t Cut It
If you’re a regular reader of these pages, you know that we are highly critical of Social Security.
How could we not be? After all, this is the greatest Ponzi scheme in the history of the United States, and it infuriates me. I even opined on this just a few months ago after reading this headline…
If that doesn’t piss you off, I don’t know what will.
Let’s face it. Retirees aren’t just looking at massive cuts to their Social Security benefits. They’re being confronted with a harsh reality: The government stole their money.
Yes, I wrote “stole.” I will not sugarcoat this. This IS theft.
They took your money, without permission and with the promise of returning it to you after you hit age 67. Now they’re changing the terms of the deal — a deal, by the way, that you never voluntarily agreed to.
And this, dear reader, is why Energy and Capital exists…
To provide you with the necessary intel that’ll allow you to create and protect your wealth, even in the face of government theft.
That’s actually why I’m writing this piece today.
I want you to check out this small tech firm that’s making a new kind of nuclear fuel for small nuclear reactors. Because, quite frankly, this could be one of our biggest winners this year.
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There are only a handful of companies in the world that have mastered the art of nuclear fuel production. But this company in particular leads them all. Which is why a single pound of its fuel sells for $11,600. It’s also why guys like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel have already ponied up millions for some of the action. And we’re getting some of that action for ourselves, too.
In fact, my good friend and colleague Alex Koyfman just published a new research paper on this new kind of nuclear fuel and, more importantly, the company behind it. The company that I believe could realistically be far more valuable than 20 years of Social Security payments.To a new way of life and a new generation of wealth… Jeff Siegel
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