The fiscal challenges that Japan's shrinking population has created come from a shrinking birth rate and an aging population.
Precise numbers can become misleading statistics when politicians, journalists and scholars use them for jobs projections and GDP totals.
Shown through grades that are mostly Cs and Ds, state pension problems display unrealistic fiscal policy decisions for an aging population.
Combine thriving world markets and more productive cows and you get farmers who unintentionally create a milk glut when they increase supply.
Our healthcare costs and parking lot spending are influenced by similar incentives that involve paying per visit or with a lump sum for unlimited use.
We can better grasp what we mean by the GDP by looking at the numbers and also by comparing its components to an alternative.
Holiday spending is about more than Mother's Day when we look at the long list of days, weeks and months that were created to boost a brand or industry.
Although Olympics finance is usually a catastrophe for the host city, the Los Angeles proposal for 2024 could be an exception.
Told that the House had not waited for CBO scoring results before passing a version of the American Health Care Act, we can ask what they were missing.












