The great boomer selloff may overwhelm US stocks

Boomers, Let's Face It: The Math Doesn't Work - LewRockwell

Triage means sacrifices will have to be made and distributed to those most able to afford them to spare those least able to afford them. There are many consequential things we can’t discuss factually because the topic upsets everyone. And since getting upset shuts down any direct discussion of difficult issues, these issues metastasize into problems that end up sinking the ship. The Titanic has already struck the iceberg and is doomed, but since…

The great boomer selloff may overwhelm US stocks

The market meltdown hypothesis, popular in the 1990s, held that equity sales by retiring baby boomers would swamp demand from their juniors, crashing the market. It seemed wrong for a while, partly because of globalisation. But the idea may now, belatedly, be having its day.