Republican Presidential Debate: Live Coverage

Rand Paul is right that the retirement of the baby-boom generation poses big challenges for the federal budget, and for the U.S. economy in general. But there’s some good news: millennials! Millennials are the largest generation in American history, and they’re now entering the workforce in big numbers. In the short term, the retirement of the boomers will swamp the entrance of the millennials. But over the longer run, the U.S. is in far better shape than Japan or many European countries, which also have lots of retirees but don’t have as many young people coming up to replace them.

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With clock almost out, still no substantive convo about global economies — particularly China and eurozone and how they interact with our domestic economy in a globalized world.