Sign "O" the Times

“Recovery for whom?” asks the NYT editorial board:

Economic gains so far have mostly benefited those at the top of the income and wealth ladder. Worse, future growth is likely to be lopsided, because the foundation for broad prosperity is arguably the weakest it has been since World War

Take, for example, Americans age 25 to 34, the leading edge of the so-called millennials, the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s. They are worse off than Gen Xers (born from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s) were at that age and the baby boomers before them by nearly every economic measure — employment, income, student loan indebtedness, mobility, homeownership and other hallmarks of “household formation,” like moving out on their own, getting married and having children.

Maybe if we didn’t pursue policies aimed at funneling free money at Wall Street while saddling youth with debts they can’t afford and disincentivizing entrepreneurship and family.

Just a thought.