The fiscal challenges that Japan’s shrinking population has created come from a shrinking birth rate and an aging population.…
A Demographic Disaster
Hoping to increase the size of a future labor force that will support its aging population, Italy scheduled and then canceled a fertility day.…
Weekly News Roundup: From Soap Operas to Stock Markets
This week’s economic news summary included price and the neurology of shopping, time and globalization, stock market history and the Brazilian gender gap.…
Weekly Roundup: From Playing Monopoly to Flying Drones
Our everyday economics includes BRICs & MINTs, supply, monopoly, tradeoffs, economic consensus, innovation, property rights, redistribution, fertility rate.…
Part 2: What To Do When More People Are Old
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.…
Aging Populations
Just remember 4-2-1-whenever you think of Chinese demographics. 4 refers to 2 grandmas and 2 grandpas, 2 is their adult children and 1 is the next generation. The social fabric of China is shifting. I…