Showing posts with label Baby Boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby Boom. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2025

If anyone is stuck, it's Gen Xer Peter Thiel

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 ... I’m always anti-boomer ... In The New York Times, here . 
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The decline of worker hours in America

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 In 1966 all the hours worked by all the full time and part time workers divided by the civilian employment level peaked at about 35.35 hour...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Peak Baby Boomers worked when they were teenagers, at 2.07% of population, still the peak, today at just 0.78% of population

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Get a haircut and get a real job Clean your act up and don't be a slob Get it together like your big brother Bob Why don't you, get ...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

One reason Americans are fatter than ever might seem to be sloth, except for the fact that 60% of the population worked in both 1979 and 2022 but the average work week dropped by just one hour over the period

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According to the CDC , obesity is most severe among those of late middle-age, so if you can prevent it before then you are more likely to es...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Greek historian Victor Davis Hanson, born in 1953, flips his lid, laughably blames every single problem in America today on the Baby Boomers in a wildly insane rant, my favorite being . . .

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   . . . the Baby Boomers destroyed the southern border . . .. Here . Immigration policy in the United States was forever radically altered ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Peter Thiel is so mistaken about homeownership in his interview with John Gray

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 Peter Thiel says "To unshackle ourselves economically, one should start by attacking the extraordinarily distorted real estate market...
Friday, July 15, 2022

CNBC story blames capitalism's law of supply and demand for inflation: 92 million millennials caused it, not Federal Reserve interference with interest rates and mortgages

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... too many people with too much money chasing too few goods  ... millennials are still making up the largest chunk of the homebuyer market...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Michigan deaths exceed births by 12,921 in 2020 due to pandemic: Births down 50% from peak Baby Boom year 1957

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There were 104,166 births in 2020 in Michigan, 50% fewer than in 1957 when there were 208k, the peak year of the Baby Boom in the USA. Ther...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

"Alcohol drinking was at its highest point between 1976 and 1978"

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 That's because peak Baby Boom from 1957 turned 20 in 1977. More young thirsty mouths, relatively speaking. Gallup .
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh dead at 70, FOX obituary includes famous "preamble to the Constitution" blunder from CPAC 2009

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Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70  : "We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable ...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Washington Examiner lists Pocahonky's identity lies, starting with, well, Pocahonky

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Here : It's common knowledge by now that Warren, one of the top four 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, identified as a Nat...
Friday, August 16, 2019

If it's a number and it comes out of Rush Limbaugh's mouth, it's probably wrong

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Today Rush Limbaugh corrected a caller about the Summer of Love, saying it was in 1968, not 1969. Actually it was in 1967. Rush als...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Trump is the permissive Baby Boomer who can't say No, will let in 2 million illegals seeking "asylum" by Election Day 2020

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Monday, January 14, 2019

Much smaller than first thought to be, the gig economy lies prostrate before the great wall of state capitalism

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"The Gig Economy Increasingly Defines Late-Stage Capitalism Annie Lowrey, Atlantic"    is how Real Clear Markets...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Pat Buchanan blames Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama for squandering away the world Bush 41 gave us

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Jawohl, the Baby Boom presidents, except Pat won't yet admit that Trump is simply Squanderbucks IV. Who Lost the World Bush 41 Left...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Marijuana legalization is the spearhead of America's anti-conservative libertarian tide and ultimately of America's decline

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Eventually there will be no place left to hide from marijuana users in America. And they are going to be the end of America as we once kne...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

That idiot Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire thinks Woodrow Wilson changed America for the better

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He's also the idiot who wrote the TARP bailout. And now he's the idiot who blames the Baby Boom for the programs bankrupting A...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Sorry Jonathon Trugman, one month does not a full-time story make

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Here he is, without data: "Yes, folks, things really are looking better for full-time employment."  It's true tha...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Time article joins The Atlantic attacking the new aristocracy's moats, styling it the Baby Boom even though the author doesn't mention it even once

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Here in "How Baby Boomers Broke America", which never once mentions the role of the Baby Boom and is really about how lawyers d...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Arbeit macht GDP: At root America's basic economic problems lie at every level in not working enough

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There is no age tranche working up to its potential, especially not teenagers, but also not the college-aged, not the core 25 to 54 years,...