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The Coming Retirement Burden

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The baby boomers are about to retire. Megan McArdle explains why it will hurt.

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Is the upcoming Social Security transition manageable? Dean Baker argues that it is--and that people who say otherwise are ignoring the much larger transition we've already made, back in the 1960s:

Baker is right that we've already made a substantial demographic transition.

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