what's so stunning about this chart of annual US births (millions, blue columns) and fertility (children per childbearing female, black line) is that previous peaks in the economy and asset markets moved together w/ births/fertility into '80, '90, '00, '07...but since '07 the https://t.co/l6HwOK97jY
what's so stunning about this chart of annual US births (millions, blue columns) and fertility (children per childbearing female, black line) is that previous peaks in the economy and asset markets moved together w/ births/fertility into '80, '90, '00, '07...but since '07 the https://t.co/l6HwOK97jY
A growing number of toy companies are increasingly targeting family members rather than just parents due to intergenerational wealth inequality: millennials, the generation now having kids, hold just 3% of US wealth. Baby Boomers, in contrast, have 60% of US wealth. While millenials are today's new parents, grandparents have the disposable income.
Glimpse • Glimpse - See the Future Before it Happens
So there’s a vicious cycle wherein aging populations make housing more expensive, which slows family formation
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
The trade-offs between having a successful career and a family, and the fact that the social policies in most industrialized countries don’t provide much help navigating this situation, is one reason why virtually every advanced industrialized country with the exception of France has a below-replacement-level birth rate.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
