The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future (2004) is a book by Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Laurence Kotlikoff

Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff is a William Warren FairField Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a...

 and Scott Burns

Scott Burns (newspaper columnist)

Scott Burns is a newspaper columnist and author who has covered personal finance and investments for over 30 years. Today, he ranks as one of the five most widely read personal finance writers in the country, according to The Dallas Morning News...

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In the Prologue on page xii, the authors say the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 was "heading into one God-awful fiscal storm, the full dimensions of which are hard to fathom." Further, they say on page xiii the book offers suggestions for United States public policy

Public policy

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 and personal finance

Personal finance

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 to help deflect the "storm". Moreover, they state:

"We feel we have some unique insights into the demographic and economic problems facing our country based on our own research and that of other economists and financial analysts. Our goal is to leave you with a real sense of what's coming, why it's coming, when it's coming, and where national and personal economic salvation does and does not lie."

"Averting America's Bankruptcy with a New New Deal", published by The Economists' Voice - February 2006, outlined some of the solutions promoted in the book.http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/Averting%20America%27s%20Bankruptcy%20with%20a%20New%20New%20Deal.pdf Kotlikoff also discusses his book in the Tax Foundation's

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 podcast

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titled "Laurence J. Kotlikoff on Long-Term Fiscal Problems in the U.S.".http://www.taxfoundation.org/podcast/show/1859.html

Table of contents

The following is a copy of the book's table of contents.

1. Acknowledgments
2. Prologue
3. From Strollers to Walkers
4. Truth is Worse Than Fiction
5. Driving in LA with a Map of New York
6. Popular Tonics, Snake Oils, and Other Easy Fixes
7. Going Critical
8. Changing Course
9. Grab Your Life Jacket
10. Securing Your Future
11. Epilogue
12. Notes
13. Index