Tag: assets
We have been trying to figure out what happened to households’ financial well-being between 2007 and 2019. This exercise led us back to data on the ratio of wealth to income by age from the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). In these ratios, wealth includes all financial assets, 401(k) accumulations, and rea…
Baby boomers have a lot more debt than their parents did. By all accounts, the parents were in pretty good shape for retirement because they held their debt levels down to a mere 4 percent of their total assets in the years immediately before retiring – ages 56 to 61 – according to a new…
