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- The baby-boomer "time bomb" is finally upon us, economists say.
- All boomers will be at least 65 soon, the generation's point of "peak burden" on the economy.
- Future generations can take solace in the fact that no boomer-size generations are in the making.
A time bomb has been ticking in the US.
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