"On the Economy, the Presidential Candidates Need to Go Big or Go Home"

My Column In Barron's, Which You Should Be Able to Access for Free!

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If you’re interested in precisely what our Presidential candidates should really be proposing instead of the partly lunatic (Trump) and same old same old (Harris) measures they are promising, please read my column posted in yesterday’s (10-19-24) Barron’s.

Here’s the LINK. If you click X on the box that asks you to subscribe, you should be able to access the article for free.

And here’s a 50-word AI summary. The fun part is missing, namely how we can readily fix these things with far less pain than generally imagined.

The U.S. faces a fiscal crisis, with soaring debt, unsustainable healthcare spending, and ineffective social programs. Declining savings and investment rates, rising poverty traps, and underfunded Social Security exacerbate the problem. Radical reforms in fiscal accounting, Social Security, healthcare, education, and taxes are necessary to avoid an economic collapse and safeguard future generations.

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