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Debt, Demographics & Deflation Ahead | Raoul Pal

The Macro Trading Floor

CHAPTER

The Importance of Demographics and Productivity

Al-Furin: Demographics is a real problem for the Western world plus China, plus Southeast Asia. Aging populations mean GDP growth goes down and there's too many people in workforce at same age. Productivity has been falling for about 40 years as well, which is kind of weird because we've had a lot of technology but productivity keeps falling. We're seeing both fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus always; it doesn't function without it.

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