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Fortune
Nick Lichtenberg

Jamie Dimon Says the American Dream Is Slipping Away. The Dysfunctional Boomer Retirement Wave Is a Major Part of the Problem.

Photo of Jamie Dimon (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Jamie Dimon has been warning since March that “the American Dream is alive, but it’s slipping out of reach for too many people—and for future generations.”

Six months later, JPMorganChase is pointing to a specific, dollar-quantified reason why: Millions of aging small-business owners are approaching retirement with no real plan for what happens to the businesses they built—and the dysfunction is only getting harder to ignore.

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