OK Boomer vs. Avocado Toast: How to Talk Money Across Generations
by Matt J. Goren, Ph.D., CFP®
Jul 29, 2021
3 minutes
Since Baby Boomers entered adulthood in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American financial landscape has changed drastically and is almost unrecognizable. Most middle-class Americans used to expect pensions. Now, pensions are gone and 401(k)s are in. Credit cards, invented in the 1970s, have become the dominant way middle-class Americans spend their money. Oh, and you may have heard about exploding debt levels and housing prices.
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