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

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. The United States Is Bankrupt -- Chapter 2. Catastrophic Success -- "No One Here Gets Out Alive"-Jim Morrison -- Moving the Curve -- The Other Mortality Curves -- Longevity Marches On -- When Life's Not Cheap -- Centenarians, Left, Right, and Center -- Your Money or Your Life -- Is There Death after Life? -- Modern Aging and the Arrival of the Lupies -- Achieving the Postmodern Dream: More Sex, Fewer Babies -- Children of Men -- When Aging Turns Economically Deadly -- Chapter 3. Living beyond Our Children's Means -- Doing Ponzi Proud -- Firing the Messenger -- Muzzling Richard Foster -- Lying about Fiscal Child Abuse Is a Bipartisan Activity -- What Goes Around, Comes Around -- Uncle Sam's Fiscal Gap -- The Zero-Sum Generational Game -- Voodoo Economics -- Oh, and By the Way -- Is 211 Trillion an Underestimate of Uncle Sam's Fiscal Gap? -- Things That Can't Go On Will End Too Late -- The Potential True Cost of Obamacare(s) -- Why the Fiscal Gap Is Our Only True Compass: The Labeling Problem -- Changing Policy or Changing Words? -- Minding the Wrong Deficit -- The True Deficit -- The General Relativity of Fiscal Language -- The Fiscal Gap Is the Only Label-Free Measure of Our Fiscal Policy -- Is the United States in the Worst Fiscal Shape? -- The Short and Long Terms Are Inseparable -- A Dollar's a Dollar -- Fiscal Gap Accounting Isn't Perfect Either -- Darkness at the End of the Tunnel -- Chapter 4. Economic Fallout -- What Makes This Chart So Scary -- Our Postwar Party -- But Hasn't the Personal Saving Rate Risen? -- Blame It on China -- China's "Currency Manipulation" -- Blame It on the Government -- Blame the Banks -- Blame the Boomers -- Taking from Young Savers and Giving to Old Spenders -- What about Intergenerational Altruism? -- Transferring to Oldsters.