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Overall, not many changes. The US population grew at its slowest rate since the 1930s.

 

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More than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village, the first numbers to emerge from the nation's once-a-decade head count were released on Monday, showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state is getting based on its population. Because the number of seats in the House of Representatives is set at 435, it's a zero-sum game with one state's gain resulting in another state's loss — like a pie with...

 

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3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

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Dropping the one child policy can’t magically fix the fact that since the mid 80s they have been aborting females at rates that mean today they aren’t enough females to have the babies needed to keep the population growing.

 

Combine that with increasing affluence in the Chinese middle class which naturally delays the age at which people have children and ultimately whether they have them at all, and you have the recipe for a population disaster. The next 20 years in China are going to be very interesting.

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7 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

So basically, China spent decades and trillions of dollars building housing and infrastructure for a future population that doesn’t exist. What could possibly go wrong?

Don't they have like entire ghost cities? I bet those are fun to play around in.

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15 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

So basically, China spent decades and trillions of dollars building housing and infrastructure for a future population that doesn’t exist. What could possibly go wrong?

The oversupply of housing is not the real problem; it’s the debt bubble that has developed alongside it.  If it pops violently into a downward debt deflationary spiral a la US 2008 or Japan in the 1990s, China could be in for some real pain

 

There is one *very very* big wild card, however, which is the fact that a massive amount of that debt is on the books of state-owned banks, i.e. essentially public.  That might mean that China can simply forgive it without wiping out private banks and private creditors—and the latter is what more or less fuels great depressions.
 

If it turns out that China can deflate the debt bubble without also destroying their economy, then the housing oversupply might not be an issue—it might just make housing cheap.

 

As for the declining population growth...it can actually be interpreted as a good sign.  Welcome to the middle income club, China—yes, we tend to have less babies.

 

Don’t spoil it with another Cultural Revolution.  Mr. Xi isn’t helping.

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18 minutes ago, sblfilms said:


alternatively: by Cuomo shipping Covid positive nursing home patients back to the nursing home 😬

 

Or just by the fact that NY got hit hard first, remember that it's supposed to be a snapshot of April 1. Everywhere had issues with nursing homes, Cuomo’s situation is only a scandal because of the attempted cover-up. 

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