The U.K. and Japan have slumped into recession while the U.S. keeps defying gloomy expectations

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2 of the world’s biggest economies have slumped into recession
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Just don't look at the man behind the curtain in the US lol

Excuse you, that is THe wizard of Oz, he has an arts history degree and is working as a manager for a cool 22$ an hour with no extra vacation, his benefits package is shit, lives with 4 other people in a too small house in a questionable neighborhood, and drives a shitbox. Clearly he's doing his job out of the pure goodness of his heart! He's just living his American Dream!

Millennial consumption is the USAs saving grace. Japan and UK don’t have an equivalent population of late 20 to 40 something’s to boost consumption.

That is the core problem for the West. There are no Western countries that have an equivalent Millennial population to boost consumption. This means is the US falters there is no one else to drive growth.

Mexico and a few other BRICS (Not China or Russia) are some of the few countries that are economically advanced enough and have a large young population. But they are either not integrated enough or not advanced enough economically to make a difference.

14,391,255 in the UK

72.24 million in the US

That percentage doesn't mean much when there are 400% more people buying things.

You'd care about relative proportion of the population, not absolute.

A recession is defined by relative change in the size of the economy, not absolute.