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Ever Thought About Writing Your Memoir?

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

April, 2026 — If someone asked me last year if I was going to be writing a memoir I would have chuckled. What have I ever done that was that interesting. Memoirs are for luminaries like movie stars, inventors, military heroes, and athletes. That all changed after I received an…

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Published on February 20, 2026
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Will Your Children Be Able to Afford a Retirement As Good As Yours?

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

Note: This article has been updated to include vote totals as of August 10. However, you may still take the poll and the results will continue to change. August 4, 2021 — There seems to be more than a good natured rivalry going on with the baby boomer generation vs.

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Published on August 3, 2021
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What Was Your First Car?

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

May 5, 2021 — For baby boomers, nothing was more exciting than getting our first driver’s license. The freedom that lay ahead. Just as exciting, maybe even more, was the prospect of getting your first car. So we would like to hear about your first wheels – whether your parents…

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Published on May 5, 2021
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What Was Your First Car?

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

May 5, 2021 — For baby boomers, nothing was more exciting than getting our first driver’s license. The freedom that lay ahead. Just as exciting, maybe even more, was the prospect of getting your first car. So we would like to hear about your first wheels – whether your parents…

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Published on May 5, 2021
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Happy Birthday Boomers – Oldest Turn 75

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

February 22, 2021 — Seventy five years ago last summer GIs from America and around the world starting returning home after fighting WWII. It didn’t take them long to resume normal life, where they quickly produced a wave of newborns the likes of which had never been seen before –…

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Published on February 21, 2021
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Stuck at Home: What Should You Watch?

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

March 21, 2020 — This is an extraordinary time – a significant number of Americans have been ordered to stay in their homes. While painful and anxiety producing, at least with the Internet and TV we actually have it better than when we were kids and claimed to be “sick”.

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Published on March 21, 2020
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OK, Boomer

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

November 29, 2019 — In case you hear this comment from a millennial, Gen X, or Yer, it is NOT a compliment. It is a dismissal, as in, “OK, baby boomer, you have a lot to say, but your day is over. Kindly step aside.” Younger folks tend to use…

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Published on November 28, 2019
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Fewer and Fewer Workers to Support Baby Boomer Social Security

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

June 26, 2018 — One of the pillars of Social Security funding is that each working generation pays the retirement benefits of those whose working years are over. A key assumption is that there will be plenty of working age people paying into the system to pay those benefits. Unfortunately,…

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Published on June 26, 2018
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Move Over Boomers – We’re Outnumbered

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

January 26 — As a baby boomer we confess to a certain pride in belonging to the largest single age demographic group in world history. A tidal wave that crashed on the shore in 1946, we overflowed the hospitals we were born in. That continued through our childhood as new…

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Published on January 26, 2018
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Anatomy of a 50th High School Reunion

Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues

Note: This is a followup to the Reunion Survey and results article we published in 2015. In that poll we found an even split between those looking forward to their 50th reunion, and those who said they either had no plans to attend, or were undecided. Many who said they…

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Published on July 24, 2016
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