The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34131...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