However he sends two boomers down on breakpoints and holds on.
Consumers from baby boomers down are increasingly buying cars based on their image, said Christopher Cedergren, a consultant at Nextrend, a marketing company in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
To be sure, many of those nonfamily guests are boomers chasing down old memories.
What has happened since the mid 1980s is the teenage mode of consumption has spread upwards, to the point now that it can encompass up to the 1960s (the age of the very first boomers) and down to early childhood.
As the baby-boomers run down their savings to fund their retirement, you would expect, other things being equal, real interest rates to rise (because the supply of savings will fall, relative to demand).
Despite the morose lyrics the boomers put down their swirly margaritas and began to dance.
Many Baby Boomers look down on Millennials as over-protected, lazy, attention-seeking young kids who haven't faced hardship.
"Florida has always counted on a big chunk of the baby boomers retiring down here and buying property over the next 20 years," said Jack McCabe, a veteran Florida-based real estate analyst.
With their tunes showing up in movies like "Freaky Friday," "Adaptation" and "Shrek," Mr. Volman said, Turtle lovers now range from baby boomers down to children of, well, about 6. "People either love me or hate me," Mr. Volman said.
Maybe this is the centre of it: Grand Designs is essentially an exercise in taking rich boomers down a peg.
