End of the demographic “sweet spot”

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By Leith van Onselen

The Telegraphs’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard last week wrote a detailed post arguing that with the demographic ‘sweet spot’ vanishing, the global economy will soon face labour shortages that will finally wrestle power back from the owners of capital, ending the “deflationary super-cycle”:

Workers of the world are about to get their revenge. Owners of capital will have to make do with a shrinking slice of the cake.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.