You’ve got to study the methodology a bit and pay careful attention to the legend in the chart below from this study by the St. Louis Federal Reserve on household debt, but, after you do, you quickly realize that Generation “X” (those born between 1965 and 1980) is having an increasingly hard slog now that the best part of the U.S. credit expansion is decades behind us and about all the U.S. economy has left now is the hope for more asset bubbles that they might somehow get on the right side of.
It looks like the Baby Boomers (I’m very late in that generation) aren’t doing much better than the Gen Xers and there’s surprisingly high debt for previous generations as indicated by the open circle, open square, and open triangle symbols above. All in all, not good.
