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		legitster on March 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Doom and Gloom but financial markets doing... A trend people are missing out on - in 2020, we crossed an important milestone: more than half of the baby boom generation is now retired. So we are seeing huge gobs of investments/pensions being pulled out of stock markets and being put into bonds or cash. The expectation is to see a decrease in the amount of money in the stock market but better returns in the money that remains.

jrs235 on March 23, 2024 [–]

And with fewer people producing (but still consuming, they're retired...) we have less supply (and same or more demand) of goods and services also leading to continuing inflation.

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