Tag Archives : Demographics
Europe’s Dismal Future
Little hope of sustainable prosperity in Europe.
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Italy’s Fiscal and Demographic Death Spiral
They’ve discovered the secret to permanent stagnation.
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Demographics, Insufficient Reform, and the Grim Outlook for Eastern Europe
The region faces some big challenges.
read more...Will “Mind-Blowing” Demographic Change Lead to Fiscal Disaster?
The entire developed world faces a demographic problem.
read more...Demographics + Entitlements = Europe’s Doom
Jaw-dropping numbers European Commission’s Ageing Report.
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The Fiscal Nightmare of Changing Demographics Combined with Poorly Designed Entitlement Programs
Demographics and entitlements will mean a Greek fiscal future for America and other nations.
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In One Image, Everything You Need to Know about America’s Demographic Challenge
There soon won’t be enough workers to finance the modern welfare state.
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The Slow-Motion Train Wreck of Entitlement Programs
The Census Bureau just released a report on America’s aging population. The big takeaway is that our population will be getting much older between now and 2050. And since I’m a baby boomer, I very much like the fact that we’re expected to live longer. But as a public finance economist, I’m not nearly as happy. As […]
read more...A Single Picture to Show that Many Nations Are Economically Doomed
Over the years, I’ve shared many charts, graphs, and tables to help people understand that the welfare state is fundamentally unsustainable. And, assuming there’s not genuine entitlement reform, many of these fiscal estimates show that the United States has a very perilous future. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the United States is in worse shape […]
read more...In Tallinn, Helping to Protect the People of Estonia from Krugmanomics
Last month, I exposed some major errors that Paul Krugman committed when he criticized Estonia for restraining the burden of government spending. My analysis will be helpful since I am now in Estonia for a speech about economic reform, and I wrote a column that was published yesterday by the nation’s main business newspaper. But […]
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