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...“Taxes should be raised on me and my generation of boomers that have become unproductive,” he says. “The boomer generation is undertaxed. The problem is they’re quite vocal and numerous.”...
...“A boomer article for boomer readers,” one unhappy customer said of yesterday’s letter about the crypto exchanges....
...Recommended Reading Economist Joseph E Stiglitz agrees with me that neoliberals need some of their own shock therapy....
...Joseph Briggs, an economist at Goldman Sachs, says he expects most prime-age missing workers to reappear gradually, but that participation could still be below its pre-pandemic trend at the end of 2022,...
...That is the question raised (metaphorically) by the economists Joseph Kopecky and Alan Taylor in a recent paper called “The Murder-Suicide of the Rentier”....
...Joseph Brodsky defended boredom as a way to stimulate activity, and explained that those who experience boredom in all its stultifying splendour will be spurred on to great things....
...The ageing of the baby-boomer generation is expected to drive up demand for all forms of senior care in the coming years....
...The Theft of A Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future, by Joseph Sternberg, Public Affairs, RRP$28, 288 pages Stop Mugging Grandma: The ‘Generation Wars’ and Why Boomer Blaming...
...His heroes can be arrogant, a quality that drew fire towards Joseph Anton, Rushdie’s third-person retelling of his years in hiding from the Ayatollah’s fatwa....
...Downsizing baby-boomers from New York are increasingly moving to lower-tax states, such as Florida. Added to that is the relative distaste — and inability — of millennials to buy second homes....
...The participation rate has now been relatively steady for four years, defying demographic changes as the population ages and more baby boomers enter retirement....
...Killer grannies: Emma Jacobs writes about the downsides of deploying our baby boomer parents to help out with child care, from crisps for breakfast to passive smoking....
...The coffee chain recently added two non-white directors, meaning that 36 per cent of its board are from ethnic minorities, 29 per cent are female and they range in age from millennials to baby boomers....
...Nick Bosanquet, professor, Imperial College Much of the current spend is by baby boomers. Younger generation have lower current incomes and lack of confidence in lifetime incomes....
...The front page headline asks, “Are baby boomers to blame for all society’s ills?”...
...Meanwhile, baby boomers, who are at or approaching retirement, were also struggling to put money aside because of household bills....
...However, so far Anthem’s advances have been rebuffed, apparently because David Cordani, Cigna’s chief executive, thinks he should lead the combined group rather than Anthem boss Joseph Swedish....
...The baby boomers are starting to retire. Some of it comes from the expansion of the US disability benefit, which pays millions more people to stay out of work than it used to....
...That's a 50% increase since the beginning of the last boom, and a tripling since the baby boomers were young. While fewer and fewer are officially unemployed, many remain "nonemployed"....
...A more health-conscious millennial generation is forsaking the convenience food of their baby-boomer parents for fresher, more natural fare and proteins of various sorts....
...Globally, the generational divide between equity-rich “boomers” and equity-poor “millennials” is significant and growing. Postwar baby boomers have lived in an era of high inflation and rising incomes....
...This growing gap between baby boomers and younger generations is unsustainable over the long term....
...Baby-boomers and a lack of proportion. Who needs them. Related link: No, Steve, it’s not like when Hitler invaded Poland – FT Alphaville (2010)...
...Europe cannot afford to become a theme park for ageing baby boomers, obsessed by nostalgia, dreaming of glory days....
...On that note Joseph suggests we pay attention to how the Cour de cassation in France treated some of NML’s judgement debt last week....
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