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Baby Boomers - Snippets of our Golden Age

This is what the experts say:

Pew Researchers

Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (ages 51-69). And Generation X (ages 35-50 in 2015) is projected to pass the Boomers in population by 2028.

The Millennial generation continues to grow as young immigrants expand its ranks. Boomers – whose generation was defined by the boom in U.S. births following World War II – are older and their numbers shrinking as the number of deaths among them exceeds the number of older immigrants arriving in the country.

Now this is what Pew did not tell you.

Deloitte Insight Research

Baby Boomers, a frequent punching bag among social critics for their excesses, will not head into the sunset quietly (see “The generations defined” by the Pew Research Center). In 2029, the year when the last Boomer will have turned 65, the US Census Bureau projects that there will still be over 61 million Boomers—about 17.2 percent of the projected US population. 

They will continue to wield immense influence over every aspect of American society for at least another two decades. As their needs and circumstances evolve, Boomers may yet again challenge conventional wisdom and redefine their role in the American economy. Financial firms would do well to take notice.

Okay, so if the Baby Boomers possess over 50% of the wealth in this nation today, and by 2030 when the last of the Boomers has just turned 65 they will continue to wield immense influence over every aspect of American society, as a little over 17% of Americans will be Baby Boomers yet they will still control over 45% of all American wealth, then why are the Boomers being largely ignored in media advertising.

They may be ignored on Main Street but they will still control the purse strings of our nation long into the future.  So most of those people in a position to influence our future, Baby Boomers, who suffered through what I believe was one of the most divisive, toughest, and unstable ages in our history and survived, will be here to guide us.

Here are some of my favorite people of the Boomer generation.  Here is a list of them, you match the names to the pictures.

Juliette Binoche                  Sandra Bullock

Helena Bonham Carter     Diana, Princess of Wales

Enya                                      Gloria Estefan

Chris Evert                          Peggy Fleming

Jodie Foster                        Whitney Houston

Holly Hunter                      Catherine Zeta-Jones

Shelley Long                       Sophie Marceau

Reba McEntire                   Kathryn Morris

Olivia Newton-John         Michelle Pfeiffer

Annie Potts                         Linda Ronstadt

Gabriella Sabatini             Emma Thompson

Marisa Tomei                    Cyndi Lauper
Kathy Troccoli                   Susan Sarandon
Dorothy Hamill                 Condoleezza Rice

   

 

    

  

  

 

   

 

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