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Russell Clark's avatar

There are some listed ivf clinic in Australia

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Clement's avatar

ASX: MVF

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Russell Clark's avatar

Interesting. I will take a closer look at Norway. As I pointed out Denmark has done much better with birth rates with an extremely liberal attitude to IVF - which I would have thought Norway would be closer to. One thing about Denmark is they had a big collapse in births in 1980s, so maybe they have had a longer time to adjust public policy

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NEIL PHILLIPS's avatar

ALWAYS GREAT TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS FROM YOUR EXCEPTIONAL BRAIN

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Russell Clark's avatar

Thank you! All capital letters makes this compliment even more special!

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Russell Clark's avatar

Yes - this is very much inline with FDR style policies. I think the government authority involved may well have been created by FDR

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DeepBlue's avatar

Why the obsession with this topic??

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Russell Clark's avatar

The implication is that population forecasts are completely wrong. In financial terms growth and inflation will be higher - so interest rates should.be higher. Also it implies developed world population growth should be stronger.

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Clement's avatar

Russell how does this tie into the cost of child-raising

Childcare costs in developed countries have gone into the roof

Without action on that front I don't see cheaper IVF as the solution.

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Russell Clark's avatar

Yes childcare is a problem. But I cant help thinking work from home has made this solvable. If two parents can work from home two days a week - you only need childcare 1 day....

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A Walking Gentleman's avatar

Hmmm a Fertility business might be interesting to explore as an investment expression of this research.

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Montana ike's avatar

Hey Russel, have you thought about any of the vaccines apparent impact on fertility rates, and increased non Covid death rates ?

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Russell Clark's avatar

Had not heard that vaccines affect fertility. Will take a look

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Andy Fately's avatar

Very interesting thoughts

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