Brenden Greeley’s “The economy is king in Donald Trump’s re-election bid” (Opinion, December 20) accurately and optimistically concludes that our US economy will “get [another] massive wave of hiring around mid-year”. But in his earlier, also accurate assessment that “working age adults continue to join the workforce” he misses another, equally powerful piece of the puzzle: for employers and policymakers in any growth economy to take the necessary 21st-century step of opening jobs to those of us over the quaint 20th-century retirement age of 60 or so.

The U.K. has ushered in a new Conservative government to get “Brexit done.”  The pound rose in value against the dollar on the news that Boris Johnson is in - but meanwhile the health of the nation suffered a dip in the news that day. 

While often painted as a risk to our economy, new research published by ILC shows that the UK’s ageing population brings economic opportunities through older people’s growing spending, working and earning power.

Celebrity Chef Christine Ha, the first blind contestant and winner of FOX's Master Chef, joined The Joan Hamburg Show to talk about her experience as a blind chef, restauranteur, cookbook author and the guest chef for Dine in the Dark United Nations.

Joseph Sternberg is absolutely right about the adverse effect of Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to tax baby boomers (“How Do You Tax A Baby Boomer?,” Political Economics, Sept. 13). Yet it surprises me how stuck in a 20th-century work-retirement model even the usually perceptive and insightful Mr. Sternberg seems to be.