Heir tight: why boomers are so stingy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The post-war 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 (9:13). And how old-fashioned wind-power is blowing new life into the shipping industry–and cutting its emissions (16:13).
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| 1:22.7 | Did you know that most animals don't have periods? |
| 1:26.7 | Our correspondent discusses how to make a mouse |
| 1:29.0 | menstruate and other amazing innovations that could help us better understand and improve women's |
| 1:34.8 | health. And it turns out that the shipping industry is just as polluting as aviation is. The solutions |
| 1:43.4 | to make flying greener are ever higher tech. |
| 1:46.5 | But at sea, one idea is to go low-tech, to wind power, |
| 1:50.8 | but not with the big clipper ship sails you might imagine. |
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