Lsbcal
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This is an interesting thought. People who are 83 now were 20 (starting jobs) in 1950 and so were probably riding the US prosperity wave....(snip)...
the 85-95 group may be great depression babies and their spending may have lagged their entire lives.
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But maybe they and some of the younger ones (like those currently 65 to 83) were directly or indirectly affected by their parent's Depression era traumas. I know I was.