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The Silent Generation

Brad Pitt Is a Baby Boomer

Nancy Shonka Padberg | Posted 02.09.2013 | Fifty
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Nancy Shonka Padberg

It's well known now that baby boomers hold 70 percent of the U.S. wealth and will be inheriting trillions in the next 20 years. However, who are the other marketing groups that make up our 312 million Americans?

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Millennials' New Mantra: Have Less, Imagine More

Bob Jeffrey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Bob Jeffrey

The Millennials are now inheritors of one of the greatest collapses of collective judgment this century has seen. Are they in denial, in disappointment or simply in disbelief?

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