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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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...

