The $84 Trillion Elephant in the Room

I’ve seen all sorts of estimates for the coming wealth transfer from baby boomers to the next generation. $16 trillion. $84 trillion. $124 trillion. I guess those numbers rely on a bevy of assumptions which is why they’re all over the map. Whatever the actual number is in the future, right now the baby boomer generation is worth more than $82 trillion: Some of that money will be spent but much of it will be p...