Is Trump working on Making America Great Again, by turning it into a European colony again? A massive trade war with China, is obviously going to hurt both countries and Europe is the largest economy left.

Shrinkflation is when somebody sells you less of a product for the same price.

What you mean is stagflation. That when you have high inflation and a shrinking economy.

At any rate this is really great news for the environment.

Putin needs Saudi Arabia to not start an oil price war, which Russia would loose.

The US support of Israel is making the US less popular around the world.

The problem is Hungary. Orban transferred ownership of the government share of the oil and gas company MOL to non profits. Those finance his own propaganda and support far right groups across Europe. Obviously the oil and gas comes cheaply from Russia.

So vetoes from Hungary all the way.

People are always born with the same age namely 0, but they do not all die at the same age. In fact getting older increases chances of death. Hence 2 babies per mother ends up in a pyramid too.

Even if you presume people all die at the same age, things will be stable. If say people all get childten at 30 and only work between 30-60 and then all die at 90. If we then assume 1 child per couple and everybody has a child at 30, we would get a stable dependency ratio of 2.5 dependents per worker. Obviously those numbers are not realistic. Btw that also is not a pyramid, but a trapezoid.

It is not an inverse pyramid though. The older humans are the more likely they die. So you always and up with a pyramide at the top, at least somewhat. With low birth rates a society has to care for fewer children. That results in an actually fairly stable ratio of working age population to dependents.

A shrinking population also means build infrastructure is already built. They just have to keep things running.

China uses debt differently. Local governments are not allowed to borrow money directly, so they use companies to borrow money for public works. The system is called local government financing vehicle(lgfv). They usually get land, which they sell or lease to get some money or to secure loans. It is usually understood that local governments would bail lgfv out. The issue with lgfv is that they owe more money then the GDP of China and it is secured with mostly real estate, which is somewhat on the edge of crashing. Chinese real estate is crazy overvalued, so popping that bubble can hurt China badly.

The difference is that China is in a trade war with the US. The US is in a trade war with the rest of the world.

The economy is growing, but the wealth of the rich is growing faster. That obviously means the poor get poorer…

Germany has public broadcasters, which are controlled by councils made up of representatives of different groups like chourches, unions, enviormental groups and well Jews. That was part of trying to make sure that the Holocaust does not happen again. However the Jewish community in Germany is rather small, due to the Holocaust at about 100k. That group is also unlike American Jews extremly pro Israel. That is why anti zionist Jews are such a problem within Germany. So the Israel lobby works hard to get rid of them.

Cost. You do not need much storage for a 95% renewable grid. For the last 5% nuclear baseload is still way too expensive.

Right away being over a decade later at pretty much the end of life of those plantd without refurbishment.

Even Germany complained about that visit. I am sure others did too.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/german-fm-says-netanyahus-visit-to-hungary-is-bad-day-for-international-law/

It is not just the dependency ratio. When your population declines enough, you end up having trouble maintaining all sorts of infrastructure. That is especially bad in rural regions. If your population density falls, that means fewer people have to pay to maintain basically the same length of roads, electricity grid, water system and so forth. Fewer customers leads to shops and restaurants closing. With fewer young people, schools will close making even more young people leave, as it makes raising children that much more difficult. So larger villages and small towns tend to do somewhat fine, but villages end up with pretty much no young people and just die. Even worse with an overall population decline the biggest problems of cities, namely the high cost of housing becomes less of a problem.

It really is not just the dependency ratio, which is a problem. In fact that one is often stable, as old people die.

It is just how it is spelled in French.

and Voltaire was wrong. It was “Holy” as in the pope had no authority over it, as it is “Holy” already. “Roman” as it larps to be Roman from time to time and “Empire”, because it was an actual Empire.