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editor-in-chief. Editorial meetings at The Economist are often long.
Stomachs can be heard rumbling as debates on, say, central-bank
independence run through lunchtime and into the afternoon. But rarely
has a theme prompted so many contributions as our recent cover package
on Generation Z. As we report, people born between 1997 and 2012 are
unprecedentedly rich. Yet much of the discussion about them focuses on
how badly they are doing. A new book that is making waves, by Jonathan
Haidt, a social psychologist, is called “The Anxious
Generation”.  In that meeting The Economist’s Gen Z staff, whose
numbers are growing fast, were quick to defend their cohort. As we
explain in our leader, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful
about Gen Z. Indeed, perhaps the biggest intergenerational divide in
our meeting was whether to use the British pronunciation of “zed”
(cringe) or the American “zee” (duh). As a British millennial,
I’m sticking with zed. My younger colleagues tell me I sound
hopelessly out of touch, but we’ll zee about that. Bo Franklin,
senior digital editor Editor’s picks Generation Z is unprecedentedly
rich Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were
baby-boomers Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z They are not
doomed to be poor and anxious British boomers are losing out for the
first time A generation used to having everything its own way is not
happy How the young spend their money They are woke, broke and
complicated. Businesses should take note Britons in their thirties are
stuck in a dark age Youth is wasted on the young. But wealth is wasted
on the old How the young should invest Markets have dealt them a bad
hand. They could be playing it better Sponging boomers The economic
legacy left by the baby-boomers is leading to a battle between the
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