The End Of A Growing Consumer Base… And The Beginning Of The Decline

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Recession and depression (the absence of growth) will be unending as a declining population will consume less (no amount of rate cuts and subsequent debt accumulation can mask the declining demand).

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Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog,

In 1960, the core population (25-54yr/olds)of the OECD nations (US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, most the EU, UK,Turkey, Israel,Japan, S. Korea, Australia, NZ) was a couple millionlarger than the combined core of CRB (China, Russia, and Brazil). Since that time, OECD population growth has slowed to a crawl and it wasCRB’s growth that drove the global consumer base tonew heights. However, 2017 is a monumental yearwhen those counting will notice something missing…growth. A simple count of the corepopulationsin the nations that consume over 70% of earths crude oil and nearly 80% of all global exports shows thatthe core populations of the OECDand the combined CRBbegin outright shrinking as of 2018 (chart below).

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Abnormally high population growth ended decades ago but only nowhas the wave crestedin thecritical heart of these nations economies…the 25-54yr/olds who drive economic growth. These are not projections but simply moving theexisting,smaller…

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