Stocks Rallied, and Many Missed Out

by Adam Felts

AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin provides his thoughts for a Wall Street Journal article on the declining popularity of stock investments:

The memory of the last financial crisis cast a long shadow, said Joseph Coughlin, director of the research program AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The recession and memory of it continue to reverberate because what Main Street remembers is the system is broken."

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Adam Felts

Adam Felts is a researcher and writer at the MIT AgeLab. Currently he is involved in research on the experiences of family caregivers and the future of financial advice. He also manages the AgeLab blog and newsletter. He received his Master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Boston University in 2014 and his Master's of Theological Studies from Boston University in 2019.

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