Boomers on FIRE

How the FIRE movement has shifted in favor of Boomers

Barry Silverstein
3 min readAug 4, 2021

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Person in front of burning fire
Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash

The title may sound like a bunch of older Americans in the Western part of the country fleeing current forest fires — but this blog post is about a different kind of F-I-R-E: “Financial Independence, Retire Early.” The FIRE movement gained traction with the under-50 set as a way to retire as early as possible by accumulating enough savings to fund…

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Barry Silverstein

Author, blogger and retired marketing pro. I like to write about brands, products and people of the past. Please visit my website: www.barrysilverstein.com