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The specter of inflation: entitlement programs have created huge debts, and one Federal Reserve official thinks that the government's answer to the problem could send the economy into a tailspin.(ECONOMY)

The New American

| August 06, 2007 | Behreandt, Denise L. | COPYRIGHT 2007 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

At a conference on April 16, Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, warned that the U.S. economy could be facing trouble in the future. "According to official government reports," cautioned Fisher, when it comes to wealth transfer programs including Social Security and Medicare "the gap between what we will take in and what we have promised to pay ... now stands at $83.9 trillion." That's a tremendous amount of money, and it points to a problem lacking easy solutions. Says Fisher: "The potent combination of lower birthrates, higher medical costs and longer life expectancies provides little reason to hope that the ...

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