The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

The Truth About Silents

Think about it. If you were born between 1925 and 1944 you are currently approximately sixty-four to eighty-three years old. You missed World War II, but not by much. But a miss is as good as a mile when it comes to wars. Your overall numbers are small and your generation is referred to as Silent, presumably because you have little to say and are therefore reticent. Just between you and me, I think history dealt you a bad hand. When I think of Silents, I think of insurance salesmen with Rotary pins.

The Silent generation numbered 52.5 million—the smallest generation of the past 100-plus years. It is a dubious distinction. But what about the virtues of the Silent Generation? In that regard, the Silent Generation was essentially ...