Comment by nomilk

8 days ago

Only 1.7m people left North America in 2023 (4.4m arrivals). Would be interesting to compare to figures from 2025.

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arrowsmith  8 days ago

US had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...

  • nemo44x  8 days ago

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    • t-3  8 days ago

      More people creates more economic activity and higher productivity, which is deflationary. Fewer people lowers productivity and depresses economic activity, causing inflation. You have it backwards - the real economy is not a closed system with fixed amounts of positions and finite money needing zero sum thinking.

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    • cadamsdotcom  8 days ago

      You’re assuming everything else can’t grow to absorb the demand.

      In general it does - new housing, job creation, all of it.

      What you’re really seeing is when something - often policy - gets in the way and a place ends up underbuilt.

      It’s still a problem but it’s one with different solutions.

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