Bankers would not be allowed to lend out their customers’ money without explicit permission and full disclosure of the risks. Large private losses could still take place within the financial system but without endangering the rest of the economy or burdening taxpayers. In short, Kotlikoff’s proposal stops bankers from being able to gamble with other people’s money.
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“The Clash of Generations is so well written that Scott Burns and Laurence Kotlikoff should be considered the Stieg Larssons of economics. But there is one difference: the horror story they tell—about the debts that burden the young—are not fictional. This is a great book of great importance, and every paragraph contains some new and interesting observation.”
—George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001
Speaking Engagements
Professor Kotlikoff speaks to hundreds of U.S. and foreign businesses and government groups about economic and policy issues, both domestic and foreign. His talks cover a very wide range of micro and macro topics. Examples include:
- Is the U.S. Bankrupt?
- Is Conventional Financial Advice All Wrong?
- The Healthcare Fix
- Worldwide Economic Growth
- Fixing the World Bank
- Iraq -- Plan B
- Getting Argentina Back to the Future
- Pension Reform in Chile
- Whither the Euro?
- Can China Keep Growing?
- Economics’ Revolution in Financial Planning
- Are Americans Saving Enough?
- The Trade Deficit, What It Really Means?
- Spend Till The End
- Does It Pay to Work?
- Are Economists Smarter?
- China’s Currency Reform – Is it Time?
- When Can I Retire?
- The Coming Generational Storm
- Why Interest Rates are Heading North
- Will the U.S. Hyperinflate?
- Economic Magic
- The Demographic Sword of Damocles
- Is America’s Middle Class Disappearing?
- Boomers’ Mega-Inheritance, Myth or Reality?
- Remaking Social Security from Scratch
- The New New Deal
- Financial Advice or Malpractice?
- Why America Doesn’t Save
- Does It Pay to Save?
- Telecom’s End Game -- Monopoly?
- The Case for the FairTax
- Generational Accounting
- Intertemporal State Budgeting
- The General Relativity of Fiscal Language
- The Great Pension Swindle
To book Professor Kotlikoff, please contact him at 617 834-2148 or kotlikoff@gmail.com.