How did the Baby Boomers ruin the economy?

Baby Boomers gobbled up the best economy in American history and left the bones for the rest of us, argues The Post's Jim Tankersley. ... read more

One moment in the third Republican presidential debate encapsulates everything terrible about baby boomers and the way they’ve pillaged the U.S. economy. It came from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Generation Xer, who offered the standard line — you can hear it from the mouth of almost any American politician today — on how to keep Medicare and Social Security solvent. read more

The baby-boomers didn't ruin the economy, but they didn't do everything they could to encourage it. They had too many pet social projects to care about the economy with the same level of ardor as did the G.I. generation. read more