Browsing: Gen X
The oldest Gen Xers are turning 59.5 and can finally tap their retirement accounts—here’s why this is a ‘golden age’ for tax planning
The oldest members of Gen X are reaching an important retirement milestone: As of this week, they start turning 59…
While the U.S. languishes on e-cigarette reforms, Australia on Monday introduced some of the world’s most restrictive vaping laws as…
Gen Xers, the forgotten child of the ‘Great Wealth Transfer,’ are first in line for $31 trillion worth of inheritances from the rich and ultra rich, new report finds
Generation X has become the overlooked, if not somewhat pitied, castaway of the Great Wealth Transfer headed Americans’ way. But…
Gen X is the least confident about retirement as ‘crunch time’ nears—and has done less to prepare than boomers or millennials
The cohort once derided as the “slacker generation” is about to start heading into retirement, and many Gen Xers aren’t…
Gen X is set to be a hoagie, not sandwich generation—chipping in longer for their aging parents and children
The footlong was once five dollars, or so the legend goes. At the risk of shaking a proverbial cane and…
Gen Z will pay dearly for this U.S. blunder on the massive debt that boomers, Gen X, and millennials are dumping on them, former White House economist warns
U.S. debt is soaring to record levels, and the Treasury Department squandered an opportunity to help ease the burden on…
Meet the four types of millennials, from the Great Recession-blighted set to the ‘peak’ of the generation
The frivolous millennial spending their money on avocado toast, living at home with their parents, and “killing” industries along the…
$1.46 million? $3 million? Financial experts say there’s no such thing as a single ‘magic’ retirement number
The latest “magic” retirement number is $1.46 million, according to Northwestern Mutual’s 2024 Planning and Progress Study. That figure has…
The new retirement is no retirement: Baby boomers are keeping jobs well into their 60s and 70s because they ‘like going to work’
At 73, George Cavedon could be spending his days on a golf course in Florida with friends who have been…
Millennial and Gen Z credit scores are the latest sign of the ‘vibecession.’ Their credit scores will keep going up, Open Credit, TransUnion report shows
Credit scores have long been viewed by critics as arbitrary—mostly because there are so many factors that affect them —and…












