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Non-members can purchase articles at the NABE Document Store online. The Challenges of Affluence Over the past decade, effective monetary and fiscal policy plus a long-term trend of deregulation and opening up the economy has joined technological change in creating unprecedented prosperity. Continuation of prosperity requires continued diligence from policymakers, particularly in not spending the current federal budget surplus through tax reduction or new spending in an era of full employment. In addition to maintaining good macroeconomic performance, we must open up opportunities to those that are not now able to participate in the current affluence in ways that will enhance rather than destroy the productivity growth that makes affluence possible. This will take a double agenda a people agenda and a place agenda.