| By the end of this year, millennials—that avocado-eating, experience-seeking, late-marrying cohort born between 1981 and 1996—will have overtaken baby boomers to become the largest adult demographic in America. And that means, as they ramp up their careers and their earning power, the U.S. economy will increasingly turn on their efforts.
Using data from the Federal Reserve and other sources, Bloomberg columnists Brian Chappatta and Elaine He put together a snapshot of millennial wealth, saving and investing habits. It's never entirely clear what the future holds, but from Senator Elizabeth Warren to Forever 21, everyone's banking on the new thirtysomethings. —Janet Paskin Did you see this? Emboldened by newly relaxed rules for foreign visitors, Saudi women are pushing the limits of the country's restrictive dress code.
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Medical debt is the top reason America's aspiring homeowners get turned down for home loans. We love charts The leading U.S. Democratic presidential candidates are promising to pay for policy visions—Medicare for All, student debt relief, affordable childcare—by raising taxes on the wealthy. That includes, of course, themselves. Here's how the top four candidates, with 2018 income ranging from just under $600,000 to $4.6 million, would fare under their own proposed tax hikes. How the other half lives Or in this case, less than half of the 1 percent. The world's very, very richest people gathered in (where else) Monaco last week for the principality's 29th Annual Yacht Show featuring 125 superyachts worth a combined $4.3 billion. These yachts are so big that their lifeboats are just slightly smaller yachts. |
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