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Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York and on this show we're going to take a look at some recent downward trends.

Birth rates are falling in Japan.

In fact, the entire population is shrinking.

Apparently, this is related to fewer people having sex. This is maybe the

birds and the bees edition. We need to teach the Japanese where babies come from.

What does this mean? We will work out what this means for the Japanese and even for the global economy.

We're also going to look at Europe where it's prices that are going down. Last week we talked about inflation this week. We're going to talk

about deflation. And finally there's another thing going down and that's cable

viewership in the US. There's a new on-demand thing called Sling TV. Is that going to

bring millennials back to television or could it be cable TV's death below? We're going to talk about that with Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist

and blogger at mathbabe.org.

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