joining us to talk about that, andy serwer and david wessel. thanks for joining us. andy, your new book called "starting over." will the next decade be better? >> first of all, there's one school of thought that this past decade was so terrible the next one can't help but be better. i'm not buying that, necessarily. we're going to see some changes in some trends. we talk about that, that are going to make things better. it is not inevitable that things will improve. in terms of seeing so much neglect, deferral of responsibility, i think those things are going to turn around a little. >> david, looking ahead, is there another shoe to drop after the hits our economy has taken already or do you think we are looking at better times next decade? >> i feel like we must be living under a centipede the number of shoes that have dropped the last couple of years. i think andy's almost bound to be right. it was a terrible decade. and we ended up with many americans having less at the end of the decade than they had in the beginning. the history of america is that we usually -- t

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