A great source of personal growth is a challenge to long-held ideas-especially when it moves you out of your comfort zone. In a number of blog posts in recent years, I fretted over low birth rates which are likely to eventually result in...
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Visual Capitalist just published a ranking of the percentage of each state’s population in poverty. The Census Bureau calculates this statistic by comparing pretax household income with three times the cost of a minimum food diet in each state adjusted for family size. ...
My recent white paper The Most Important Topic in Economics discussed the interplay between population and productivity growth in determining our economic future. I pointed out that the number of annual births in the U.S. currently exceeds the number of deaths slightly, but...
My March 2023 white paper Population: A Tale of Two Worlds discussed the slow rate of population growth in the U.S. and actual declines in the populations of Japan, parts of Europe, and South Korea. These trends are largely attributable to low fertility...
In the 1950’s, 97% of men in the prime employment age group of 25 to 54 were either working or actively looking for work. That figure began to decline in the early 1960’s and has now fallen to 88%. Given that there are...
The daily noise of the economy, politics, and markets makes it very difficult to take the long view, but I try very hard (with mixed success) to “look around the corner.” One sweeping trend that does not garner enough discussion is the major...