Clash of Generations Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

Name: Clash of Generations Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy
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ISBN: 9780262526104

ISBN-10: 0262526107

ISBN-13: 9780262526104

Edition: 2012

Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns

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The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enronblush, America's insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is afiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, andothers. How did this happen? In The Clash of Generations, experts LaurenceKotlikoff and Scott Burns document our six-decade, off-balance-sheet, unsustainable financingscheme. They explain how we have balanced our longer lives on the backs of our (relatively few)children. At the same time, we've been on a consumption spree, saving and investing less thannothing. And that's not to mention the evisceration of the…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, one of the nation's leading experts on fiscal policy, national saving, and personal finance and a columnist for Bloomberg, is Professor of Economics at Boston University. His writings and views appear in Forbes, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other leading media outlets.

Scott Burns's personal finance column has been nationally syndicated since 1981.