Ok, Bill, let’s review those wonderful days from whence we sprang, so fraught with the advantages of having nothing. So potent with opportunity. It was the middle of the ’70s…
October 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 26 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "baby boomers"
Baby Boomers Figure They Will Have to Work Longer than Expected
A woman loses her house. She stays with friends. She sleeps in her car. She tries to find work. Eventually, she runs out of options and checks into a homeless shelter.
October 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Is the Real Economy Growing, Expanding, and Making Money?
JPMorgan, the Wall Street firm that was bailed out by the feds a year ago, reported income of $3.6 billion in the 3rd quarter. With that kind of profit in the financial sector, it won’t be long before the whole economy is running red hot, right?
October 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Consumer Economy Not Going to Return to Robust Growth Anytime Soon
Mortgage lenders say they expect the peak in foreclosures to come about a year from now. As for the bottom of price declines, you can expect that in 2013 or beyond.
October 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Americans Aren’t Borrowing Or Buying
This is the story we’ve been telling here at The Daily Reckoning for two years. Americans have to cut back. They are out of time and out of money.
October 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Sometimes Technical Analysis Sounds Like a Foreign Language
Your editor does not pick up foreign languages easily. But just for grins, we asked Gabriel to try his technical speak on the CRB commodities index. It’s been up, then way down, then back up. We wondered-all the fundamentals of supply, demand, growth, and recession aside-what the index looks like to trader with an eye for patterns and mind full of oscillators.
August 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
Benefit From Being A Baby Boomer
People sometimes ask me: “What should I do with my retirement account?” I often tell them to consider ways of retiring that are not dependent on financial abstractions and various corporate/government promises, such as Social Security or corporate pensions.
January 8th, 2009 | Nathan Lewis | 1 comment | Continued
Baby Boomers Are Ill-Prepared for Retirement
Retirement financing is going to be a big issue for many, many people – even those who thought they had it in the bag. Altogether, trillions of dollars’ worth of retirement funds have been lost already. Read on…
October 30th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Baby Boomers Face Early Retirement With No Money Saved
When companies lay off employees – they get rid of the middle-aged, expensive workers – the baby boomers…
August 6th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
Europe is About to Suffer an Outbreak of Obamamania
There has been an extraordinary shift in the age group which dominates political life, in Europe as well as the United States. Those of us who are older than the baby boomers, saw them take over from our generation and now see our children’s generation taking over from them.
February 25th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 6 comments | Continued