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Paul Solman: Larry Kotlikoff is a dear friend of both mine and the Making Sen$e Business Desk, appearing weekly on PBS NewsHour online to answer your questions about Social Security as “Ask Larry” and showing up at the local tennis court to flail about with me.
But his longest-standing passion may be what he calls “generational accounting” and its abuse by the U.S. government, a passion that has bubbled over in books like “The Clash of Generations” and “The Coming Generational Storm,” co-authored with Scott Burns and reviewed when it came out in 2005 by Paul Krugman in the New York Review of Books. (Read Larry’s response to Krugman’s review here.) Read more.