This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach. These calculations show the sensitivity of...

To a remarkable degree, population growth in the United States is unevenly distributed and, at present, most evident in places where Republicans dominate the Democrats. These two effects result from an ongoing trend that persisted in the current decade: migration favors suburbs and disperses the...