Laurence Kotlikoff: “The US Fiscal Gap Is $200 Trillion… Our Country Is Broke”!

• Laurence Kotlikoff: “The US Fiscal Gap Is $200 Trillion… Our Country Is broke”! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  While it is easy and often enjoyable to distract oneself with daily drudgery such as who will bomb whom (if not so enjoyable for those on the receiving end of said bombs), the key word in the sentence is just one: “distract” and as Kyle Bass pointed out correctly, the best, and most “economy-boosting” of all distractions ends up with the proverbial red button being pushed.
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  Sadly, with an economy which Boston University’s Larry Kotlikoff defines as “arguably in worst fiscal shape than any other developed country“, there is much to be distrated by and is why we correctly predicted in July that the Syrian false flag event is only weeks or months away (turned out to be precisely one month). So for those who have no desire to prove the axiom that ignorance is bliss, or to have their heads stuck in the sand, here is a must read interview between Goldman’s Hugo Scott-Gall and the iconoclast economist who, in a vast minority, calls it like it is.
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