January 2026 - The Automatic Earth

28-1-2026 One Child

Jan 282026

January 28, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:06 pm Finance Tagged with: birth rate, China, fertility rate, one-child policy 222 Responses »

Georgia O’Keeffe Red poppy 1927 Here’s something that stuck in my thoughts. I was aware that China had a one-child policy at some point, I just didn’t realize at what point that was, and how long for. Turns out now they want to end that policy, and reverse it if they could. And they want to stop it just one generation after it started. Guess it was nsot a success. These people thought they could predict the future, but they

23-1-2026 US GDP

Jan 232026

January 23, 2026 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 2:53 pm Finance Tagged with: Bartiromo, CNBC, GDP, Margolis, Trump 215 Responses »

Jasper Johns Map 1961 (yes, it’s the US) Post brain fart, we’ll slowly be coming back, having used the forced pause to make some long intended changes. Let’s see where this leads us. I want to do some more writing than in the past few years, though I don’t know if I even still know how to do it. But losing RT again seems a good moment to do it (BTW, if anyone has a URL for RT that works