Demographics, from Steve Ellison
As I have said a number of times, China demographically is where the US was in 2008, as the larger cohort born before the one-child policy ages out of its peak productivity and spending years.
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Conversely, the US now has a demographic tailwind as the large millennial generation forms households and advances in careers. The Fed should end QE now because the demographic drag that made the Obama-era economic recovery so painfully slow has reversed. QE is now inflationary.