As a puny yet honest attempt to show you that I actually read other things than plain economics I thought that I would share this piece with you on declining nomadism amongst Americans; it is written for Newsweek by author Joel Kotkin. I am not quite sure whether he believes the aging of the population [...]

This one should really go on Beta.Sources, but I thought that it deserved attention over and above the fold too. It is a couple of years old, but still well worth a look; hat tip (an old BW blog post).
We investigate the consequences of demographic change for business cycle analysis. We find that changes in [...]

In part two of this series, I examine global demographic trends and take an initial look at the implications for global GDP growth, and by extension, the outlook for the current world-system of debt-money, as defined in part 1.
The general demographic trend over the last 500 years, and particularly so since the mid 1700s has [...]

The face of U.S. demographics is changing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the central point of the U.S. population U-Hauled from central Indiana to Phelps County, Missouri—about halfway between Springfield and St. Louis on U.S. Highway 44—between the years 1900 and 2000. In the decade preceding the turn of this last century, it shifted [...]