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INTERGENERATIONAL THEFT is supported by overwheming evidence from countless news article from the UK and around the world all pointing to one inescapable reality: A huge intergenerational injustice is occuring.

2025

15/04/25 The REAL Reason No One Wants Kids Anymore

11/04/25 Steve Coogan: Politicians have failed young people

08/04/25 Young Aussie blasts advantage baby boomers had when buying a home

06/04/25 ‘Polyworking’: why do so many millennials have more than one job?

05/04/25 Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows

05/04/25 How parenthood became a luxury few can afford

05/04/25 Spain tackles housing 'social emergency' as rents double in a decade

05/04/25 Labour is 'missing a trick' by not taxing housing wealth, expert says

04/04/25 Green belt Nimbys are ruining young people’s lives, warns developer

04/04/25 The infuriating boomer habit that's making it even harder to buy a home

01/04/25 IF Article: Young people’s despair is primarily due to the shattering of the intergenerational contract

02/04/25 Girls born today set to have record low of 1.46 children on average

02/04/25 Women to continue having babies later, says ONS

01/04/25 How the housing crisis is ruining your life

31/03/25 Tax bigger homes more to force boomers to downsize, urges Tony Blair’s think tank

31/03/25 Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds

30/03/25 Whitehall has left generation of teenagers with no hope, says Andy Burnham

29/03/25 Is Social Security Generational Theft? Millennials vs. Boomers

27/03/25 London's housing crisis is harming generations — so how could we fix it?

26/03/25 ‘Intergenerational theft’: Chris Kenny slams Labor’s budget

24/03/25 Have Boomers Rigged The System? Tom Nicholas

23/03/25 The £88,000 household income you need to afford two children

18/03/25 Give our workshy young people a break: We’re blaming Gen Z for worklessness when the real problem is an economy that offers them nothing but debt and despair

18/03/25 I used to moan about millennials’ economic woes but Gen Z has it so much harder

08/03/25 The ‘uncomfortable truth’ behind wealth-hoarding boomers: Pensioners have benefited from more state handouts than Gen Z ever will

06/03/25 Crap jobs, fewer homes, less money, toxic politics. And peak happiness eludes the young: who knew?

03/03/25 Mental health crisis ‘means youth is no longer one of happiest times of life’

28/02/25 ‘I’m very fortunate. But I can see the younger generation are getting screwed over’

27/02/25 In London's inheritocracy opportunity is inherited not earned - how the capital became a fortress of privilege

18/02/25 How Boomers STOLE Gen Z's Future

15/02/25 Why having a spare room is the next battle in the wars between generations

13/02/25 The uncomfortable truth behind baby boomers and Britain’s housing crisis

07/02/25 There’s no such thing as an ‘affordable’ home any more

25/01/25 Boomers are 33 times as wealthy as Gen Z – and they’re getting richer

11/01/25 Share of 25- to 34-year-olds living with parents up by over a third since the mid 2000s

11/01/25 More people in late 20s still living with parents

10/01/25 Spiralling housing costs hit jobs as employers struggle to find staff

2024

31/12/24 House prices have left young people with nothing to work for

18/12/24 Gen Z in Crisis: Money, Mental Health, and the Fight for Stability

09/12/24 House prices have risen twice as fast as incomes since start of this century

09/12/24 London house prices reach ‘unaffordable’ levels – even for top earners

05/12/24 Britain’s state pension Ponzi scheme faces a catastrophic collapse

04/12/24 Share with parents or rent forever: ‘I have put life on hold while trying to buy a house’

25/11/24 What was it like buying your first home in 1974 vs 2024: How much harder is it to get on the ladder now?

25/11/24 How service charges in flats spiralled out of control

20/11/24 IF Article: Vindication – London Mayor Sadiq Khan admits housing crisis is “creating intergenerational inequality like we’ve never seen before”

18/11/24 The "Fools" Golden Generation: How Boomers orchestrated the greatest generational theft in history

14/11/24 Sadiq Khan warns lack of affordable homes causing ‘profound and devastating’ effect on Londoners

13/11/24 Baby boomers bankrupted Britain – and young people are paying the price

11/11/24 House price fall could boost London economy - Khan

03/11/24 'I can't afford a child on £53,000 salary' - why fertility rate is falling

28/10/24 'The market is broken': Just 5% of private rentals in London are affordable to low-income earners

28/10/24 Fertility rate in England and Wales drops to new low

26/10/24 Rachel Reeves wants first-time buyers in London to pay £6,000 more. It's a punishment for the young

16/10/24 IF Article: Budget 2024: Intergenerational unfairness, wealth inequality and low growth are interlinked

08/10/24 Boomer Wealth Transfer, Gen Z Despair, AI Girlfriends, UBI,Career Advice - Scott Galloway | BSP 30

07/10/24 Gen Z pay double in mortgage payments compared to older generations

07/10/24 The generation of homebuyers who really had it worst

26/09/24 The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts

17/09/24 Gold-plated public sector pension shortfall costs taxpayers £208bn

16/09/24 Millennials and Gen Z Earning $20 An Hour Living Paycheck To Paycheck In MOST Cities

30/08/24 Part 2: Scott Galloway’s Viral TED Talk on How the Old Are Stealing from the Young

28/08/24 Americans under 30 are miserable compared to Boomers: ‘The future is looking pretty bleak’

03/08/24 Inter generational theft?

01/08/24 https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/generational-inequality

24/07/24 For most young Australians, the dream of owning a home has moved into the realm of fantasy

19/07/24 Expert Blames The Greed Of Older Generations For Why Millennials & Gen Z Are Failing — '30-Year-Olds Are No Longer Doing As Well As Their Parents'

18/07/24 How ‘Ponzi scheme’ public sector pensions threaten to bankrupt Britain

01/07/24 Revealed: Treasury minister admitted tax burden on young people is a 'scandal'

26/06/24 How retired baby boomers captured £1 in every £5 Britain spends: Pensioners have benefited from 14 years of Tory rule that saw public spending ‘turn grey'

22/06/24 Simon and Scott Galloway Break Down The Generational Wealth Gap

21/06/24 Scott Galloway says Boomers are robbing Gen Z of their future

19/06/24 The War On The Young with Professor Scott Galloway

12/06/24 How baby boomers really DID have it easier - and why it's only getting harder for Gen Z to get on the housing ladder: Boomers had it twice as easy buying a house earlier in their lives, data shows: Homeownership has shifted to the older generations in the last 20 years

11/06/24 IF Article: General Election: Intergenerational inequality is the elephant in the room, not debates about tax

06/06/24 Generational theft. Baby Boomers robbing opportunities from younger generations

06/06/24 DEBUNKING The Boomers | Millennial and Gen Z Have A TOUGHER Path Today Compared to The 1980s

31/05/24 Rishi Sunak's barmy army idea is last straw for the no-hope youth of today

26/05/24 Baby boomers are approaching 'peak burden' on the economy

26/05/24 The year the state pension will start to collapse – whoever wins the election

21/05/24 ‘I’m screwed’: young adults forced by EU housing crisis to live with parents

16/05/24 IF Article: Why ‘Broken Britain’ is a direct consequence of intergenerational inequality

09/05/24 The Great Intergenerational Theft How Older Generations Are Stealing From the Young

07/05/24 The Great Intergenerational Theft!

05/05/24 Gen Z will pay dearly for this U.S. blunder on the massive debt that boomers, Gen X, and millennials are dumping on them, former White House economist warns

04/05/24 How stamp duty is strangling Britain – and lining the pockets of the elite

02/05/24 How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED

30/04/24 ‘High-status’ millennials are richer than boomers were at the same age. The rest aren’t so lucky

28/04/24 The apocalypse of baby boomers: How retiring seniors will cripple the economy

23/04/24 Justin Welby: Archbishop says 'moral responsibility' to change housing crisis 'blighting lives" of millions

23/04/24 Young people have every reason to be enraged, says 'Algebra of Wealth' author

22/04/24 First-time buyers face toughest test for 70 years

12/04/24 Intergenerational theft and the cramming of prosperity into seniors' pockets is creating a flawed economy that is weaponzied by rich people and broken for young people

10/04/24 Outrage erupts at Labour pensioner bombshell over calls to hit ‘codgers’ with tax hikes

10/04/24 Why baby boomers are the luckiest generation in history

05/04/24 The ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ Is a Delusion

04/04/24 The Boomers Are A Selfish Generation And Gen Z Has Exposed Society's Scam!

29/03/24 Public sector pensions bill hits record £2.6 trillion

26/03/24 Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Episode three

25/03/24 Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Episode two

25/03/24 Who screwed millennials? Episode one: a generation left behind

25/03/24 UK’s housing stock ‘offers the worst value for money of any advanced economy’

25/03/24 Falling birth rates are a concern but is it any wonder why we’re becoming a nation too afraid to

reproduce?

24/03/24 I knew the facts about millennials but I wasn’t ready to admit the life my parents had would never be mine

24/03/24 Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – Full Story podcast

16/03/24 Labour is prioritising wealthy pensioners over workers

13/03/24 Millennial Mom Compares Her Life to Boomer Parents': 'Math Ain't Mathin''

10/03/24 Generational Wealth: 7 Reasons Boomers Aren’t Leaving Their Kids as Much as Expected

08/03/24 Real national debt hits £180,534 per person

04/03/24 'Older And Wiser Now Means Being Richer' — Baby Boomers Own 72% Of Nation's Wealth, But Gen X And The Younger Generations Trail Far Behind

27/02/24 IF Article: Will the government address intergenerational inequality in this years budget?

26/02/24 Problems of being young now branded mental health issues critics claim

25/02/24 The apocalypse of baby boomers: How retiring seniors will cripple the economy

23/02/24 Govt urged to consider shifting public sector pension schemes to funded model

22/02/24 Boomers Admit Younger People Have It Harder

20/02/24 This is how much you'll spend on rent before buying your first home

11/02/24 Trapped and miserable: The reality of divorcing in Britain’s grim housing market

10/02/24 Young people shut out of housing market could turn to authoritarianism

27/01/24 The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers… by Joseph C.Sternberg · Audiobook preview​​

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2023

29/12/23 The 'wealth transfer' from boomers won't save Gen X and millennials

06/12/23 Could Harold Macmillan solve today’s housing crisis?

02/12/23 UK millennials are worse off than previous generations

29/11/23 IF Article: Autumn statement 2023: Where is the intergenerational fairness?

24/11/23 The data is in: a generational shift of wealth is under way in Australia

09/11/23 Housebuilders cut new home plans to lowest since 2020 lockdown as they try to prop up prices

01/11/23 An intergenerational audit for the UK: 2023

29/10/23 From right to buy to housing crisis: how home ownership killed Britain’s property dream

17/10/23 Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong? review – the most nakedly furious documentary of the year

12/10/23 Is intergenerational inequality holding back Britain?

09/10/23 Baby Boomers Ruined Gen Z

05/10/23 England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report

02/10/23 Is Intergenerational Inequality Holding Back Britain?

22/09/23 Broken Britain and the return of “private affluence and public squalor

18/09/23 Intergenerational inequality and solidarity

15/09/23 Families pay three times more on bills than 30 years ago

09/09/23 Horror graph finally settles the boomers vs millennials housing struggle argument

24/08/23 Baby boomers ‘are not taxed enough’: Call for reforms to end growing generational wealth divide

09/07/23 IT Book: INTERGENERATIONAL THEFT: The £15 TRILLION UK Government Policy Bias That Makes Baby Boomers Undeservingly Rich By Stealing From Generation X, Gen Y (Millennials), Gen Z (Zoomers) & Future Generations

24/06/23 Why one generation is about to get poorer – while another gets richer

05/06/23 The selfishness of the baby boomer generation

22/05/23 A lost generation are stuck living with their parents – and Tory talk of housebuilding won’t help them

17/05/23 Millennials & Gen-Z are Poorer Than Ever (Here’s Why)

09/05/23 Niall Ferguson | How Baby Boomers Mislead the Youth

30/04/23 The Observer view on generational inequality: wealth redistribution requires political nerve

17/04/23 The Consequences of $1 Trillion of Debt | Peter Costello AC

14/04/23 Intergenerational Theft

09/04/23 As Gen Z flounders at work and millennials struggle to buy a house, boomers are enjoying a golden moment

28/03/23 WASPI Campaign's legal action is morally wrong

02/03/23 Why Britain’s Millennials and Young People Are Struggling to Keep Up with Boomers | UK Economy

28/02/23 The fight for state pension compensation has become a hopeless and unhealthy obsession

14/02/23 My generation is sucking Britain’s young people dry. Why are politicians too scared to admit it?

2022

​22/12/22 Take a Look at How Boomers Are Bankrupting the Youth of America and Crippling The US Economy

26/10/22 US Gov Has Stolen From Future Generations

14/10/22 Why Gen Z are right to be worried about money

29/08/22 INTERGENERATIONAL THEFT:How baby boomers are stealing £13 Trillion from Millennials & Generation Z

30/06/22 Policies are to blame for intergenerational injustice

16/06/22 Young Generations Are Now Poorer Than Their Parents And It's Changing Our Economies

17/05/22 Intergenerational inequality to rise as tax and welfare perks target older voters, experts warn

15/05/22 How the Boomers Robbed the Young of All Hope

​26/03/22 Baby boomers are the new climate change villains, study claims

25/03/22 Boomers responsible for nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions, study suggests

07/03/22 Young People Understand How Economic Lies Have Screwed Their Generation

29/02/22 How Britain became a gerontocracy

10/02/22 Older Generations Can’t Deal With the Fact They’ve Had It Easy

2021

31/10/21 From a 'class divide' to 'intergenerational theft', Australia's real estate frenzy leaves many behind

14/09/21 The housing theory of everything

09/09/21 The UK is suffering from an extreme case of generational inequality: Millennials across the developed world are struggling. But the UK stands out. 

05/08/21 Young people (without rich parents) will end up paying for a rise in national insurance to fund social care

30/07/21 Housing policy failure sets up intergenerational theft

01/07/21 The pensions triple-lock is an insult to young people

24/07/21 Wren's Week: Liberal Party are intergenerational thieves

30/06/21 Britain's great pensions divide revealed

23/06/21 A windfall for the old: The injustice of triple lock pensions

23/04/21 How the Tories can tackle generational inequality

24/02/21 The demographic imbalance keeping young voters apathetic

19/02/21 PREVIEW: Tom Steyer on Generational Theft and Economic Justice

19/01/21 Millennial Tells Boomer How Boomers RUINED Everything

2020

Winter 2020 Our $23 Trillion National Debt: An Inter-generational Injustice

01/10/20 An intergenerational audit for the UK

21/07/20 Generational Wealth Inequality

24/04/20 The government must focus on tackling intergenerational inequality after Covid-19

15/03/20 The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future – Book Review

​12/01/20 The gap between young and old has turned Britain into a dysfunctional family

2019

17/11/19 ‘OK boomer’ resentment will grow over intergenerational wealth transfer

29/10/19 Analysis: Growing national debt is a result of "intergenerational theft" 

26/10/19 How the baby boomers - not millennials - screwed America

03/10/19 The Theft of a Decade: Joseph Sternberg’s book on intergenerational fairness

21/05/19 How the baby boomers stole the millennials’ economic future

26/04/19 Tax system slated for its intergenerational unfairness

25/04/19 Compact between old and young at risk of breakdown, say peers: Insecure work and soaring housing costs among problems dividing generations

25/04/19 Tackling intergenerational unfairness

25/04/19 'End pensioner benefits to help young', peers say

19/03/19 Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term

18/03/19 Intergenerational Theft

2018

16/12/18 Intergenerational Theft: "Conversations: Featuring Peter Costello" 

28/05/18 How Baby Boomer Broke America

07/03/18 UK pension liabilities reach £7.6trn; almost £5trn unfunded

29/03/18 Australia's housing affordability crisis 'intergenerational theft': John Hewson

05/03/18 Baby boomers are going to have to pay more tax on their wealth to fund health and social care

2017

16/11/17 Senator Steele-John - The Government's Inter Generational Theft

06/10/17 A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by author Bruce Cannon Gibney

2016

07/11/16 Climate Change Is Intergenerational Theft. That’s Why My Son Is Part of This Story

27/06/16 The inter-generational theft of Brexit and climate change: Youth will bear the brunt of the poor decisions being made by today’s older generations

16/04/16 Intergenerationla injustice

16/03/16 Opinion: Why young people are angry about generational injustice

10/02/16 Brooks: Washington is Engaged in the Worst Generational Theft in American History

01/02/16 The Rising Tide of Gerontocracy: How Young People Will Be Increasingly Outvoted

2015

10/11/15 The growing intergenerational divide in Europe

26/02/15 The Granny State: Britain should stop subsidising the old and rich at the expense of the young and poor

15/02/15 Here's a real plan to stop intergenerational theft

​XX/XX/15 UK Parliament Select Committee on Work and Pensions report “The Intergenerational Contract Under Strain”

2014

​14/05/14 Hard Evidence: do governments favour the old and would it be different if young people voted?

13/03/14 John Stossel - Generational Theft

2013

24/10/13 How the Baby Boomers Stole Trillions of Dollars from the Millennials

23/09/13 Generational Theft: How Entitlement Spending is Stealing Opportunity from America's Youth

13/09/13 Stanley Druckenmiller - Generational Theft & Lack of Knowledge (11.09.13)

05/05/13 Ageing Britain steams towards £5 trillion pension iceberg

22/02/13 Generational Theft

15/02/13 Generational Theft Needs to Be Arrested

2012

12/06/12 John Stossel - Generational Theft

2011

13/10/11 I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy

15/03/11 Baby boomers get more in benefits then they pay in taxes

2010

17/09/10 GENERATIONAL THEFT - A WAKE-UP CALL FOR GENERATION Y

05/07/10 Baby boomers: powerful and selfish

2009

14/12/09 Roskam: We Need to Stop the Generational Theft

17/02/19 Generational Theft

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