Katherine Hamilton
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · America's Riskiest Borrowers Are Nursing a Financial Hangover · 6 Jan 2025
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And so the answer is unfortunately not very simple.
There are a lot of different factors driving this, but the main reason that I heard was that taking a big leap of faith in their financial strategy feels like the only way that they can really have a chance at the life that they want, whether that's retiring comfortably or buying a home.
Broadly speaking, we're talking about men under 40 years old, so mostly men in their 20s and 30s, but sometimes even younger.
Primarily cryptocurrency, gold, betting of varying kinds, and also meme stocks.
Generally speaking, men make up a very slight majority of overall investments.
But for these particular investments, they're holding a much greater share.
So for cryptocurrency, about 42% of men ages 18 to 29 hold crypto versus 17% of women their age.
And almost 11% of men between 25 and 34 own both gold and silver compared to about 6.5% of the total U.S.
population.
And then for betting on this most recent political election, about 85% of those bettors were male and about half of them were under 30.
And that's from Kalshi, which is a political betting platform.
There are a lot of different factors driving this, but the main reason that I heard from the folks that I spoke to was that taking a big leap of faith in their financial strategy feels like the only way that they can really have a chance at the life that they want, whether that's retiring comfortably or buying a home.
Again, there's a lot of different factors.
Men in particular, young men are falling behind in terms of higher education, involvement in the labor force.
And so reaching those traditional milestones is becoming more of a challenge.
It's been a gradual increase, you could say, over the last couple of decades.
Again, cryptocurrency is relatively new.
It came in around 2010 and has been rising in popularity since then.
The onset of the internet has also really fueled this because a lot of young men educate themselves about investing online.
And there are a lot of online communities specifically dedicated to riskier investing.
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