Skip to main content
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Media Matters for America

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Media Matters for America

  • Nav
  • Search
  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Hoenig repeats discredited claim that “Social Security is, by definition, a Ponzi scheme”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 05/29/10 3:38 PM EDT

From the May 29 edition of Fox News' Cashin' In:

Video file

Previously:

AP's Raum uses falsehood to declare Social Security “pretty much” a “Ponzi scheme”

On O'Reilly, Stossel repeats claim that Medicare is “like a Ponzi scheme”

O'Reilly, Stossel agree that Medicare is a “ponzi scheme”

Fox's Bolling: Social Security “kind of like a Ponzi scheme ... should rename it the Madoff Social Security system”

The Latest

  1. On MSNBC's The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses how there are real fracture points in a fractured media landscape

    Video & Audio 09/29/25 9:44 PM EDT

  2. Fox News host has a meltdown over Bad Bunny: “We have a crossdresser who doesn't speak English doing the halftime show”

    Video & Audio 09/29/25 9:29 PM EDT

  3. Right-wing media’s dystopian Portland coverage feeds into Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard

    Article 09/29/25 5:48 PM EDT

  4. Frequent Fox appearances are central to the Trump administration's climate and energy misinformation strategy

    Research/Study 09/29/25 12:26 PM EDT

  5. A January 6 “false flag” claim made it to the president

    Article 09/29/25 12:11 PM EDT

Pagination

  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Current page 50
  • …
  • Next page ››

In This Article

  • Fox News

    Fox-News-MMFA-Tag.png
  • Jonathan Hoenig

    Jonathan Hoenig

Related

  1. Fox News figures called price gouging investigations “communist.” Network figures are now praising Trump for proposing the same thing for meatpackers.

    Research/Study 11/10/25 4:34 PM EST

  2. Fox host Charles Payne on Trump's plan for a 50-year mortgage: “I do not like this idea”

    Video & Audio 11/10/25 11:07 AM EST

  3. Right-wing media escalate attacks on young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country

    Research/Study 11/07/25 8:57 PM EST

Media Matters for America

Sign up for email updates
  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Submissions
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

© 2025 Media Matters for America

RSS