Economy

There's a fair bit out there, lately, about the current state of the economy, and how maybe it's not doing all that well.

First, that while the economy is better, wages are stagnant enough in the long-term that it's becoming difficult to stay ahead without more debt. (Note that some economists don't consider additional debt a problem, although requiring debt just to keep gas in the car is probably not a good sign.)

Will the recession have ongoing effects that will keep the world permanently poorer? It's not clear what alliterative world this is being compared with - the one without the recession, or the one without the mortgage market that led up to it - and whether those would have ever been really richer. Presumably the systemic problems would have caught up one way or another.

Millennials living at home after college isn't anything unusual  - but how long will that go on? Although some of those mentioned are older than expected, those who graduated into the recession (whether in May 2008, right before the meltdown, or after that winter in May 2009) would have been 22 or 23 then, so in their late 20s now.

And finally, one that is more about what has changed and hasn't since 2008. It's surprising that it has taken quite this long for those investors to have rebelled. It may simply mean that they already had enough of their losses previously mitigated by the bailout that they are now realizing they shouldn't have had losses at all.