The Truth About Aging Boomers' Effect on Our Economy

By John B. Shoven, Foreign Policy. Posted March 12, 2008.

It's true that as boomers retire, they will consume more and produce less. But gloomy projections about them bankrupting us are deeply flawed.

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John B. Shoven is director of the Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University.

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