The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34131...
Aug 25, 2025, 05:16 PMwslh
89

Comments


The summary talks about two "smoking guns" for wealth increase in the oldest age group: home ownersh...read more

lapcatAug 25, 2025, 06:37 PM

Everybody pissing and moaning about the old folks better save their money as they’ll be old in a sma...read more

jleyankAug 25, 2025, 06:23 PM

"Social security" including actual Social Security, Medicare, etc is a wealth transfer from the poor...read more

ahmeneeroe-v2Aug 25, 2025, 05:53 PM

This is just another version of the same thing we see on the front page a couple times a week at thi...read more

neomAug 25, 2025, 06:09 PM

The survey defines the top one percent as "Net worth of $13,390,060 or more," which sounds greatly s...read more

eltondegeneresAug 25, 2025, 06:38 PM

I feel as if I've been reading some variant of this for the last 30 years (not just American, UK too...read more

throwaway22032Aug 25, 2025, 06:45 PM