Davos De Profundis

It didn't take long before another idle thought came to us.

We know you were wondering what the most profound thing we heard during the Davos meeting was. Well, let us tell you. At a dinner session on China's demographics, a Swedish researcher who has studied the issue said that the current generation of elderly Chinese will be "heroic" and will lay down their lives for the younger generation, accepting that their meager pensions won't sustain them and that the healthcare they will receive as they decline will be limited and of poor quality. The Swedish gentleman predicted that there would be an epidemic of suicide among the elderly in China.

Quite a sobering forecast...