A wave of retiring Boomers means the generation will soon be at "peak burden" to the economy.
It's the Baby Boomers, who are aging fast and approaching their "peak burden" years in regard to their drag on the economy and the resources of younger generations.
Advertisement"The peak burden is [when] all the baby boomers have hit retirement," Millar told Business Insider.
And it isn't the case that Baby Boomers will derail economic growth nearly as much as, say, a full-blown recession, according to Dean Baker, an economist who described the Baby Boomers as a "time bomb" in a 1998 paper.
In 2022, empty-nester baby boomers owned 28% of large homes in the US, a Redfin analysis found, double the share of millennial families.
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