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The theft of a decade, how the Baby Boomers stole the Millennials' economic future, Joseph C. Sternberg

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The theft of a decade, how the Baby Boomers stole the Millennials' economic future, Joseph C. Sternberg

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The theft of a decade

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Joseph C. Sternberg

Sub title

how the Baby Boomers stole the Millennials' economic future

Summary

A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable present. The Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the myriad consequences that has set in store for all of us. The millennial generation was the unfortunate victim of several generations of economic theories that made life harder for them than it was for their grandparents. Then came the crash of 2008, and the Boomer generation's reaction to it was brutal: politicians and policy makers made deliberate decisions that favored the interests of the Boomer generation over their heirs, the most egregious being over the use of monetary policy, fiscal policy and regulation. For the first time in recent history, policy makers gave up on investing for the future and instead mortgaged that future to pay for the ugly economic sins of the present. This book describes a new economic crisis, a sinister tectonic shift that is stealing a generation's future

Table Of Contents

Introduction: taking a bite out of the big avocado of life -- The young and the workless -- Not our parents' job market -- Human-capital punishment -- Millennius domesticus -- The Saturday-morning bank heist -- Their present, our future -- Millennials in charge -- Epilogue: hiding in plain sight

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