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The budget fights of modern times have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who forecasted that a influx of seniors would bleed America dried out, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished later years. On the other hand, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and world. The old idea of "retirement" - a word that means drawback, describing a time when people quit productive career and shrank their activities - was a short-lived historical anomaly. Humans have always found meaning and motivation in work and community, Farrell records, and the boomer era, poised to live on much longer in better health than any before, has already been exploring unretirement - extending their working lives, often with new employment opportunities, entrepreneurial endeavors, and volunteer service. Their experience, intelligence - and significantly, their continued income - will enrich the American work place, treasury, and our whole world in the ages to come. Unretirement not only points out this seismic change, now in its first stages, it offers key insights and functional advice for boomers about to navigate this fascinating, but unsettled, new frontier. Sketching on Chris Farrell's ages of covering personal finance and economics for Bloomberg Businessweek and Market Money, this will be an indispensable guide to the landscape of unretirement from one of America's most trusted experts.
