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Japan Is Leading A World Trend Where No One Wants To Go: Lost Decades

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Mark Melin
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There is a major societal trend taking place that will impact the developed world in a serious way. Japan is on the leading edge, but other nations will soon catch up, a UBS report notes. The "lost decades" of Japan, where monetary gymnastics have tried everything except one solution, might be a leading export of the island nation due to an ever aging world population.

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UBS 9 2 Population peak

The aging of a society is document-able with highly correlated economic attributes

When looking at the ratio of those dependent in society to those working, Japan had peak workers in 1990. Since then the society has been aging and along with this demographic event...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.