Demographics: Maximum Social Security payout per person
The average beneficiary gets $24k/year, and about 6% get $40k or more, and 1-2% get $50k or more per year.
Economy: Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments since 1970
Historic Social Security cost of living/inflation adjustments.
Demographics: Practical comments on the US fertility rate decline
Why most media explanations for the fertility rate decline are bull shit.
Education: Students move abroad and default on education loans
Education loans seem to be one of the dumber things we've invented.
Demographics: Half of the Baby Boom will be dead within 9 years
Half of the Baby Boom will be dead within 9 years. It's just demographic math.
Economy: Why home prices are expensive
Because the government devalued dollars.
Growth of single person households in the United States
Much of this rise is due to the ageing of the Baby Boom and widows living alone. Half of the baby boom will be dead within 9 years.
Demographics: AI blamed for drop in labor force participation 55+
The drop is explained by the huge "Boom" cohort now retiring and has nothing to do with AI.
Economy: US median family income, over time
Much to most people's surprise, it's gone up.
Demographics: Did smartphones lower birth rates? Nope
Only if smart phones were invented 200 years ago. Except for the post WW2 bump, birth rates have been falling in the US for 200+ years.
Demographics: How much does K-12 education cost?
For a child born today, average K-12 spending may reach $450,000 per student, cumulatively.
Demographics: US population may peak in 2030
Population might even be negative in 2026, and the only growth will come from immigration.
Demographics: Half of the “Baby Boom” will be dead by 2035
In 9 years, half of the Baby Boom cohort will be dead, Gen Millennial/Z will receive the greatest wealth transfer in history, collapsing housing markets, and great job options.
Education: Portland spent almost 1/2 Billion $s to update a high school
Portland spent almost 1/2 Billion $s to renovate an 800 student high school that ranks in the bottom 50% of reading, math and science scores.
Media doomerism: “Boomers” are going to be homeless
Except 79% already own their own home.