You may believe whether women are having babies in China has nothing to do with you, but you would be wrong. The number of childbirths in America is even more important.
Japan’s experience has confirmed that demographics matter for economic growth, and this will remain the case regardless of whether one looks at Germany, France, China, or any other country. Owing to a rapidly growing workforce and a young population, Japan’s GDP grew from a mere 9% of US GDP in 1960 to 73% in 1995, and its per capita GDP grew from 17% of America’s to 154% in the same period. By 1990, Americans had come to regard Japan as their chief rival, with polls showing that three times more Americans feared the economic threat posed by Japan than the military one posed by the Soviet Union.
Yet Japan’s GDP growth rate has been lower than America’s since 1992. That is when its ratio of working-age people (15-64 years old) to people over 65 began to fall below that of the United States. By then, its median and mean ages were five and three years above America’s, respectively, and its proportion of elderly people had already exceeded America’s the prior year. Its prime-age labor force (aged 15-59) has been declining since 1995, whereas America’s will continue to grow throughout this century. As of 2024, Japan’s GDP had fallen to just 14.5% that of the US, and its per capita GDP had fallen to 38% of the US level.
China’s population shrinks for first time in over 60 years, deaths outnumber births in 2022.
There is some very good and relevant data and quotations in this Financial Times article, but being the arrogant jackasses they are I am prohibited from lifting any excerpts for this piece.
The 36 fake Texas house republicant’s that I’ve been hearing Chris Salcedo talk about should all be instantly recalled and charged with fraud.
businesses can’t commit fraud.
Why can phony politicians say one thing while running then do the complete opposite when elected.
that’s textbook fraud.
They’ve defrauded the voters.
throw them out and charge them.
April 15th.
One ominous day.
two ominous events.
the guvmint steals your money, uses it to replace you and wastes and launders it to enrich themselves.
this also occurred 113 years ago today.
RIP
Dewhurst outspent Cruz $19 million versus $7 million. Of course there was no incumbent running- Hutchison was quitting.
Cornyn spent around $35 million in his last General election against MJHegar.
Texas Republican voters overwhelmingly voted in last year’s April primary to close their primaries.
Last May the Texas GOP Convention delegates voted to close their primaries and produced new rules about who may vote in a Republican Primary.
It will likely be challenged in court.
I have heard nothing about it being addressed in the current Legislature, which some people maintain is the only sure-proof way to make the change.
And the big Texas shuffle begins.
Sen. Mayes Middleton is running for Texas Attorney General.
I was really hoping to make it to St. Helen in Pearland to get my confession done this evening, but between Handyman and Hubby constantly calling and wanting their crap done, I’m not going to make it. It has been a frustrating afternoon. I guess maybe God wanted me to do a very thorough Examination of Conscience. I can do that tonight. The Pearland church has a few hours tomorrow, or I can get in line during the Tre Ore devotion time at my church on Good Friday, from noon to three. The lines will be long. (The lines at… Read more »
Hammie’s Granny?
With all due respect.
A Field of Geniuses.
A woman in Fulton County, Georgia accused a man in a wheelchair, a paraplegic, of kicking in her door and assaulting her. Officers were skeptical he could have done the deed. The cops arrested him, but released him to go home even though he remained charged with a felony. The woman recanted in writing and in person. Finally, police request Big Fani Willis dismiss the charges, but she refuses and says the man is faking it.
More federal workers are willing to get forked the second time ’round.
Columbia University’s president had already been hounded out of office, but her ordeal wasn’t over.Four days after she stepped down under government pressure during fraught federal funding negotiations, Katrina Armstrong spent three hours being deposed by a government attorney in Washington, D.C. The lawyer grilled Armstrong over whether she had done enough to protect Jewish students against antisemitism.As she dodged specifics under questioning, the lawyer said her answer “makes absolutely no sense” and that he was “baffled” by her leadership style.“I’m just trying to understand how you have such a terrible memory of specific incidents of antisemitism when you’re clearly… Read more »
RE: my post at 1:15 – growing incidence of brain disease among young-ish I remember my post last week(?) about an interview I read (and saw, actually, some time ago) by a man who was a high wizard in the stnc church. Whether you believe in his “religion” or not, he was a featured celebrity at gatherings like Bohemian Grove, where the world’s movers and shakers would seek him out and offer millions of dollars for curses and favors. And whether you believe in the supernatural or not, the fact that global and financial powers were attracted to him is… Read more »
Tucker interviewed Houston Dr. Mary Talley Bowden a couple of weeks ago.
It’s mind-boggling that Harvard was receiving $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts in the first place.
Super Dave They’ve decided to put an end to Spring Break in Panama City/Bay County. I wish them luck. It sounds like such a nice place. By the way, the author, Dave Carter has an interesting history at the bottom of the page. My wife and I were contemplating going to one of our favorite beachside restaurants when news broke about a shooting spree at Pier Park (a popular tourist landmark and shopping area). It occurred to me that since I had stopped concealed carrying when I left Memphis (a.k.a. Mogadishu on the Mississippi), I had no desire to strap… Read more »
Speaking of diseases that mankind has brought upon itself: The Wall Street Journal ran a troubling story headlined, “Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors.” One word was conspicuously absent, of course: vaccines./snipThe article cited studies, none new, showing troubling rates of early Alzheimer’s syndrome in younger people like Todd who’ve been diagnosed with long covid. I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but we’ve previously reviewed other studies suggesting that most long covid diagnoses are actually long vaxx. Some unquantified smaller number of unvaccinated patients also claim the syndrome.Anyway, the problem seems to be slowly… Read more »
Tying the drugging-up of less focused kids to other “we got it wrong” admissions from the medical “experts”: Where does this leave us? First, I’ll direct your attention to the Times’ medical exposé from January: the horrifying admission that for the same quarter-century, we’ve also been thinking about Alzheimer’s all wrong. The usual research and medications for the last 25 years have done little, if anything, productive in the field. As a matter of fact, things have been getting worse. Alzheimer’s —like ADHD— has been exploding. It’s a catastrophe wrapped in an apocalypse. Anyone who’s struggled with this horrible disease, or has… Read more »
Further on the previously mentioned ADD/ADHD story: That’s not all. Last year, a study in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that even a medium-strength daily dose of Adderall more than tripled a patient’s chance of developing psychosis or mania. A higher dose rocketed the risk to an astonishing 500%. But parents are still encouraged by the medical establishment to encourage their kids to drug themselves up by emphasizing that their differences are problematic. Another WebMD article penned by a Harvard researcher advised parents to tolerate horrible side-effects from the treatment. “Parents should know that not all personality changes sparked by medication are… Read more »
C&C: Oh, the Times. Yesterday it ran its latest long-form, multi-media style exposé, which means it’s time for the latest limited hangout. The astonishing article was topped by a classic posed question in the dumbfounding headline: “Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?” As we begin to dive into the grotesque depths of Times’ faux sympathies, keep one question in mind: Why now? I read the article yesterday. Handsome Son had to be screened for ADD/ADHD as part of our diagnosis and placement procedure with Houston ISD. Our specialist told us that a lot of kids with CAPD (central auditory… Read more »
First in the C&C: Harvard gets b-slapped by Trump. Can we call this getting Trump-slapped? He does this often, after all. Harvard: We don’t like the big bad orange man, so we’re telling him to pound sand. He can’t tell us who to hire, what to teach, and what areas to study. (applause from the approving media and protesting students camped out on the Commons) But upon studying the Trump letter to Hahvahd, “…President Gerbil’s … either lying, or he never actually read the letter and he just made all that up out of his feverish imagination. Actually, I believe… Read more »
Listen to this guy. He has it right about China and shipbuilding. One minute and eighteen seconds.
Today’s C&C roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Happy Tax Day, too. Or something. Anyway, your hard-hitting roundup today includes: Trump versus Harvard, and Harvard is getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild caught stealing daddy’s best whiskey; new Times limited hangout team strikes again with infuriating admission about ADHD’s industrial-strength lies; and growing epidemic of early-onset Alzheimer’s baffles experts who can’t see a needle if it pricked them in the eyeball. I’m reminded of an Aggie joke: An Aggie was visiting Harvard and struck up a conversation with a student. Aggie: “You’re from Harvard, aren’t you?” Harvard: “How did you… Read more »
Trump has done a very good thing with this move. I bet there will be no coverage in the MSM about it. This is huge. The Trump administration recently announced the country’s withdrawal from the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) negotiations on decarbonization. This decision, made during the MEPC’s 83rd session in London last week, marks a significant shift in U.S. engagement away from global environmental agreements that Americans no longer wish to have imposed on this nation. and, The United States has withdrawn from talks in London looking at advancing decarbonisation in the shipping sector and… Read more »
Which we can use for future projects.
These should raise a few dollars
Our newly established Marian Daughters group has a fundraiser on the 27th. I am, of course, making rosaries. I was close to my bead stores after seeing Dr. Bailey, yesterday, so I purchased more beads to turn into prayer…
An estimated 530,000 tons of food and 45 million gallons of milk are wasted in our nation’s school cafeterias annually — 31% of vegetables and 25% of milk purchased.Taxpayers lay out $1.7 billion at the front end to buy and cook this squandered food, and more on the back end to truck it to landfills. I’ll never forget the time an asst. superintendent of a large East Texas school district called into Rush Limbaugh’s show and said the real secret is school districts make money from the federal breakfast and lunch programs and that is why nobody complains. Eva Moskowitz is the… Read more »
Checking in late with no good excuse.
Mornin’ Gang
This is essential breaking news from the Never-Never Land of the Left. The perp wears blue lipstick in his New Mexico drivers’ license photo. He is also a member of this esteemed group: 500 Queer Scientists FBI Director Kash Patel@FBIDirectorKashBREAKING: I can now report that on Saturday morning, our @FBIAlbuquerque team and the @ATFPhoenix arrested an individual who we believe to be responsible for the February arson attack on a New Mexico Tesla facility.The evidence in this case stemmed from our ongoing investigation of the March arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party HQ.Evidence recovered at the scene strongly… Read more »
Here!
Paul Sperry on X:
It seems like everyone in DC knew the whole thing was a lie and a scam and didn’t say a word.
Mother Jones, one of the Holy Books of the Left, has now declared dogs to be evil enemies of the environment. Everyone should be required to euthanize their dogs ASAP. If you live in Texas, you are still guilty if an irresponsible owner allows their dog to run loose and bite a baby penguin in Australia. Shame…shame… Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is… Read more »
Trying to get fully woken up….
Salcedo is discussing some event where Bukele calls CNN Caitlin Collins an idiot, or some such. I haven’t heard the actual audio clip yet, but what I’ve heard so far, Bukele was setting the press straight.
I’m here, bleary eyed and shaggy tailed.
Okay where is everybody?