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Immigration only defers the problem. Higher productivity means higher interest rates
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The consequences will be profound, argues Henry Curr

Continuous growth can make economies fat and slow

That depends where those people end up

Protectionism is failing to revive manufacturing

A monetary-fiscal loosening is coming

It will not work, and is wrong in principle