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So money, Episode 1387, a close look at millennials and their money with Charlotte Coles of the New York Times.

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We're kind of wimpy, failure to launch kids who were always given participation trophies, right?

And now we can't get it together because we don't have the executive function to stop eating avocado

toast or whatever. And millennials are aware of this. It's not like, it's not like we've never heard

this. I mean, millennials have a sense of humor about these stereotypes as well.

Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farneesh Karabi.

Millennials are all grown up, some are approaching 40 years old, and wondering, why might not further

along? And as our guest today says, this has many in this generation afraid. Charlotte Coles

joins us. She's a freelance writer for The New York Times and columnist for New York magazines

of the cut. Her latest piece for The New York Times is called Why Millennials Are Facing More

Anxiety Than Ever. A 2018 report by the Federal Reserve Board, for example, found that

millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth in general compared with their

parents. So Charlotte spent the past several months speaking to more than 30 millennials from across

the country about their money from actors to watchmakers, scientists, comedians, and a common

emotional thread was fear. In our conversation, we dive into some of these profiles. Are there fears

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