It’d be interesting to look at when and how all that boomer and genX wealth is gonna get passed down to their 'kids', and what kind of impact that’ll have on the ~econ.
Thanks to decades of strong economic growth and falling interest rates, America’s Boomer generation holds more than half of all of the country’s wealth. Notably, they make up only a fifth of the population.This chart show U.S. household wealth distribution by generation, using data from the UBS Global Wealth Report 2025.