Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomers Get Caught in Parent Trap
Matt Thornhill
www.inrich.com
Overview: “You hit your favorite Starbucks on the way to work and overhear a couple of boomer-age women talking about parenting issues. But instead of complaining about their own children, they are talking about their senior parents, who are treating these fiftysomethings as if they are still children themselves.”
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-01-24-0055.html
Waiting for the Echo Boomers
Alex Taylor III
www.cnnmoney.com
Overview: With auto sales headed for their lowest level in a decade this year, automakers are relying on a comfortable old friend to lift them out of the doldrums: the demographic cycle.”
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/29/news/companies/taylor_echo.fortune/?postversion=2008013003
Never Mistake Boomers for Actual Old People
Dave Schleck
www.dailypress.com
Overview: “There are seven words or phrases that are seven deadly sins when said to the generation of people born between 1946 and 1965.”
http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-life_boomer_0130jan30,0,7428605.story