As a finance guy whose area of interest is financial stability and the impact of short-term adjustments on the economy, I usually don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what might happen in the next few decades, but because of the significant and historically unprecedented demographic imbalances we are seeing in the world today, and especially in China, in spite of myself I have found myself paying attention to demography. In that light a few weeks ago I began hearing rumors that the Chinese government was seriously considering revising the one-child policy. Yesterday a number of newspapers around the world carried articles on the topic. This is what The Times of London had to say: