Book Forum 

# *The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future*

(MIT Press, 2004)

Date and Time 

March 15, 2004 5 - 6:30 PM EST 

Location 

1st floor/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring the coauthor **Laurence J. Kotlikoff**; with comments by **Kevin Hassett**, American Enterprise Institute; and **Barry Bosworth**, Brookings Institution. 

In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, how will America handle this demographic overload? How will Social Security and Medicare function with fewer working taxpayers to support these programs? In a new book, Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns warn that if our government continues on the course it has set, we’ll see skyrocketing tax rates, drastically lower retirement and health benefits, high inflation, a rapidly depreciating dollar, unemployment, and political instability.

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