Structural Integrity
This Julian Sanchez piece (Hat-tip, Drezner) not only has a nice explanation of the problems America has with entitlement spending, but also manages to work in a reference to Akira. Even you non-econ folks have got to love this:
The source of the problem has been long familiar to policy wonks. The American population is aging (and longer lived), while technological developments drive up health costs even as they extend our lives. The pending mass retirement of the Baby Boom generation threatens to make entitlement spending explode like Tetsuo turning into the amoeba-monster.
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