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With dramatic increases in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security looming on the budget horizon, is the\\xa0solvency\\xa0of the United States at\\xa0risk? And what can be done to avoid a\\xa0fiscal crisis?
\\nIn this podcast, Prof. Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics at Boston University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, discusses the threat of growing U.S. entitlement spending, options for spending reform,\\xa0and the economics of the\\xa0"FairTax" tax reform plan (...'