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The Glenn Show

Larry Kotlikoff – Do We Need an Economist in the White House?

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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0:14 Larry Kotlikoff for President?

5:40 Larry’s plan to save social security

9:30 Reincentivizing work, saving, and staying in the US

14:55 Rewriting the story about income and labor

21:08 Why a 10% tariff could amount to a new national sales tax or worse

23:33 Glenn: Trade with other nations is not a zero-sum game

29:15 Taxing billionaires on consumption rather than income

34:43 The price of shame

38:40 Maintaining competitive conditions with universal health insurance

44:49 What’s causing inflation?

52:26 How big of a problem is the national debt?

Recorded September 4, 2024

Links and Readings

Larry’s Substack

Larry’s homepage

Larry’s book, with Philip Moeller and Paul Solman, Getting What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

Larry’s book, with Scott Burns, The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future

Larry’s book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking

Larry’s financial planning program, MaxiFi

Larry’s book, You’re Hired: A Trump Playbook for Fixing America’s Economy

Larry’s book, The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans



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0:44.0

Hey Larry, how you doing that?

0:49.0

Glenn, great to be back with you.

0:51.0

Back on the Glenn show, that's true. You've been on many times before. This is Glenn Lowry. You've tuned into the Glenn show.

0:58.8

I'm here every other week with John McWhorter and when I'm not here with John Mcwater I'm here with a variety of people and I'm now here with Professor

1:06.1

Lawrence Kotlakov who is a chaired professor of economics at Boston University an old old friend mine, I've known him for decades.

1:14.0

Mary is a very distinguished economist and we're going to talk about economic policy.

1:18.0

He's written many books.

1:20.0

He's co-authored a book about Social Security, getting what's yours.

1:25.0

He's actually engaged this massive question of demographic destiny in his

1:32.0

the coming generation of storm, which is a long time ago.

1:35.0

Yeah.

1:36.0

He's written about banking reform and finance and

1:39.0

de leveraging with his limited purpose banking idea. His book is called Jimmy Stewart is dead which means the local banker is not

1:50.4

coming to save you. He works on personal fun.

1:54.0

Let me introduce you Larry, because you've done all this stuff.

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