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But as an early baby boomer, he grew up in a time when the nation was steeped in anti-communism.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
He is a billionaire who loves gold, an American who loves McDonald’s, a white guy who loves Creedence Clearwater Revival, a baby boomer who’s got beef with low-flow toilets.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
"The government are going after the inter-generational gap that they keep talking about - and being a baby boomer, I'm really over that," says Christine.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
“We are 10 to 15 years away from the peak long-term-care needs of the baby boomer population. One of the main barriers to expanding the workforce is immigration policy,” Gruber said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
And even when accounting for these people, Germany has an ageing population as the baby-boomer generation increasingly retires, and the nationwide birth rate stays stubbornly low.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
In the year through March, immigration crackdowns and continuing, large-scale retirements among the baby-boomer generation mean the labor force—people working or looking for a job— declined by 554,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
A lot of this is due to the growth of the baby-boomer population that has entered their RMD years, which Fidelity says is up over 46% in that same time frame.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
The company sees a total addressable market of $400 billion, retail and institutional, and believes that it will be a key beneficiary of the baby-boomer wealth transfer.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its aftermath of supply chain disruption, has been central in convincing Italian baby-boomer business owners that the time was right to let outsiders into their closely held companies.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023
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