{"id":19492,"date":"2016-04-04T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19492"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:00:12","slug":"the-boomer-retirement-meme-is-a-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19492","title":{"rendered":"The Boomer Retirement Meme Is A Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE BOOMER RETIREMENT MEME IS A BIG LIE<\/a><\/h3>\n

As the labor participation rate and employment to population ratio linger near three decade lows, the mouthpieces for the establishment continue to perpetuate the Big Lie this is solely due to the retirement of Boomers. It\u2019s their storyline and they\u2019ll stick to it, no matter what the facts show to be the truth. Even CNBC lackeys, government apparatchiks, and Ivy League educated Keynesian economists should be able to admit that people between the ages of 25 and 54 should be working, unless they are home raising children.<\/p>\n

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In the year 2000, at the height of the first Federal Reserve induced bubble, there were 120 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 54, with 78 million of them employed full-time. That equated to a 65% full-time employment rate. By the height of the second Federal Reserve induced bubble, there were 80 million full-time employed 25 to 54 year olds out of 126 million, a 63.5% employment rate. The full-time employment rate bottomed at 57% in 2010, and still lingers below 62% as we are at the height of a third Federal Reserve induced bubble.<\/p>\n

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Over the last 16 years the percentage of 25 to 54 full-time employed Americans has fallen from 65% to 62%. I guess people are retiring much younger, if you believe the MSM storyline. Over this same time period the total full-time employment to population ratio has fallen from 53% to 48.8%. The overall labor participation rate peaked in 2000 at 67.1% and stayed steady between 66% and 67% for the next eight years. But this disguised the ongoing decline in the participation rate of men.<\/p>\n

In 1970, the labor participation rate of all men was 80%, while the participation rate of women was just below 43%.<\/p>\n

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THE BOOMER RETIREMENT MEME IS A BIG LIE As the labor participation rate and employment to population ratio linger near three decade lows, the mouthpieces for the establishment continue to perpetuate the Big Lie this is solely due to the retirement of Boomers. It\u2019s their storyline and they\u2019ll stick to it, no matter what the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5988,13267,13268,13269,926,5791,10140,964,169,13270,10726,13271,305,13272,10998,426,451,8564,13273,496,4728,13274,2055,661,10082,12414,2119,10522,824,3901,4123,1939],"class_list":["post-19492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-5988","tag-20-to-24-year-old-men","tag-25-to-54-year-old-men","tag-big-lie","tag-bls","tag-boomers","tag-burning-platform","tag-cnbc","tag-corporate-media","tag-employment-to-population-ratio","tag-establishment","tag-families","tag-federal-reserve","tag-full-time-workers","tag-gold-window","tag-inflation","tag-janet-yellen","tag-jim-quinn","tag-labor-participation-rate","tag-mainstream-media","tag-msm","tag-network","tag-nixon","tag-qe","tag-retirement-savings","tag-sanders","tag-tarp","tag-trump","tag-unemployment","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-work-force","tag-zirp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19493,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19492\/revisions\/19493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}