Toby Howell

Probably the furthest thing away from a Netflix movie you can have is from Christopher Nolan.

It's shot entirely on IMAX cameras.

It's meant to be viewed in theaters.

It's probably going to gross a billion dollars.

And some people were making jokes that wouldn't it be funny if they did Netflix speak in the Odyssey to explain why do all these characters' names sound the same?

Like, what is actually going on in the plot right now?

So it's very funny to juxtapose Damon's Netflix tilt with his upcoming Christopher Nolan Odyssey movie.

Yeah, a Penn economist added some perspective to these numbers.

One of the headline kind of positions that he said is that

To put this into perspective differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776.

So it just shows how different the demographics are right now.

Also, if China could somehow sustain the 7.9 million births per year from now on, which is a big if because, again, this birth rate is declining.

their population would level out at around 625 million people.

Again, that is the upper bound under the most rosy assumptions possible.

Right now there's over 1.4 billion people there.

So this is something that it accelerates negatively very quickly.

It's not something you can easily turn around.

So even though right now it doesn't seem that big of a deal because you're only losing a few million every year, eventually over generations that does settle at literally less than half of their current population.

Moving on, if you thought you had a good year in the stock market, you probably didn't do as well as Chris Hohn.

That's because Hohn and his hedge fund, TCI, just had the best trading year literally ever.