If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.
Laurence KotlikoffThe United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.
Laurence KotlikoffI hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.
Laurence Kotlikoff