Source: Yahoo! News The birth rate, which takes into account changes in the population, fell to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people last year. That’s down from 14.3 in 2007 and way down from 30 in 1909, when it was common for people to have big families. The situation is a striking turnabout from 2007, [...]
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The UK economy was more reliant on government spending in the first quarter, and the recession deeper than previously thought, according to official data published on Monday. The economy declined by 6.4 per cent from the peak in output to the trough, the Office of National Statistics reported on Monday, a sharper drop than the [...]
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Excellent doomer piece… With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932 The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest contractions ever. The rate of hourly earnings fell 0.1pc. Wages are flirting with deflation. “The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession,” [...]
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