'Insecurity for your assets': Trump's 'triple threat' to crash Boomers' generational party

Written by Adam Lynch June 13, 2025 | 02:54 PM ET

Atlantic writer Charley Locke says Baby Boomers have caught the very best that America can give them. Now they’re about to catch a case of Trumponomics

“They were born in an era of unprecedented economic growth and stability,” writes Locke in the Atlantic. “College was affordable, and they graduated in a thriving job market. They were the first generation to reap the full benefits of a golden age of medical innovations: birth control, robotic surgery, the mapping of the human genome, effective cancer treatments, [and] Ozempic.”

But recent policy changes proposed by President Donald Trump are promising to douse that parade

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