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...Payroll-tax receipts generally hold up much better in recessions than do income taxes, but job losses have been so severe that the CBO expects them to decline slightly from 2008, while benefits rise almost 9% because of cost-of-living adjustments and the beginnings of the baby-boomer retirement wave. (See five reasons for economic optimism...
...friended me today.” Not words you expected to hear five years ago, or even five months ago. Recently, the 40+ crowd has begun to invade Facebook, previously the domain of young adults, with the eagerness and awe of a baby-boomer learning to use the DVR for the first time. In their wake, they leave behind wall posts endearingly perfect in their grammatical construction and signatures with their full name (just in case you missed it next to their photo thumbnail...
...time to ratchet back our wild and crazy grasshopper side and get in touch with our inner ant, to be more artisan-enterpriser and less prospector-speculator, more heroic Greatest Generation and less self-indulgent baby boomer, to return from Oz to Kansas, to become fully reality-based again...
...Harley's Milwaukee headquarters, one can only hope for heat. Priced at roughly $8,000, the Sportster is positioned to help one of the world's most iconic brands survive the gravest economic crisis in decades. But it must also help Harley-Davidson move beyond its aging baby-boomer base. (See pictures of Harley-Davidson's evolution...
...great contemporary Richard Pryor - whose slow decline from multiple sclerosis prompted years of tributes and early eulogies, before his death in December 2005 - Carlin had the bad form to keep working to the very end, maintaining a nearly full schedule of concert appearances, drawing crowds of devoted (mostly baby-boomer) fans, continuing to come up with edgy, often reckless, occasionally brilliant material. Other stand-up stars, like Pryor or Jerry Seinfeld, didn't win their greatest acclaim until they graduated to movies or TV series; Carlin remained, resolutely, "just" a stand-up comedian - one, moreover, whose long hair and hipster...