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Heir tight: why boomers are so stingy

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June 18, 2024

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The postwar generation reaped the benefits of peace and prosperity. Yet rather than spend that bounty, retired boomers are hoarding their riches ()and upending economists’ expectations. The science of menstruation is baffling, partly because most animals don’t do it. Now clever innovations () may help improve women’s health (913). And how oldfashioned windpower is blowing new life () into the shipping industryand cutting its emissions (1613).

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