One of today's foremost economic journalists, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein shares his views on the economy and discusses his new book, While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis. Along with other present challenges, America faces a crisis of epidemic proportions in the nation s pension system, which is collapsing at the very moment when the population is rapidly aging. Lowenstein delivers a hard-hitting indictment of how corporations and governments made ruinous promises to workers that that will have disastrous effects on our economy. His book provides a powerful wake-up call, and a much-needed roadmap for a way forward.

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