Media: Time for the periodic “paycheck to paycheck” stories
The Business Insider morons run the same annual story claiming things are worse when data shows they are actually better!
Economy, Demographics: Gen Z employment opportunities look to be very good
Contrary to the doom and gloom, Gen Z employment options look to be the best ever, moving forward, thanks to the demographic collapse.
Economy: If only we were more like Europe, we would be better off…
Or maybe not, by one important measure.
Economy: Real estate prices
Interesting perspective on incomes versus home prices - will home prices collapse or incomes climb?
Education: “Gap years”
"Gap years" after high school or college is supposedly the big new thing. Except it's not, and it mostly applies to the affluent.
Housing: Tiny Homes?
"Tiny homes" is a very tiny market, even when defining a "tiny" home as up to 600 sq ft in size.
Economy: Lots of stories that Gen Z has it awful
Except there’s this: Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich (economist.com) And this: Don’t feel too sorry for Gen Z — they’re outpacing boomers on income and millennials on home ownership (msn.com)…
Education: Unemployment and underemployment by college major
Unemployment and underemployment by college major.
Demographics: Those born ’57-’64 saw peak earnings by about age 45
Youngest Baby Boomers’ Pay in the US Peaked When They Hit 45 After that, earnings flat lined or even went down. (There is no age discrimination in the U.S.?)