Slava15

Japan: Demographic Time Bomb Waiting to Explode

Yes to all this, but a country with a declining population and no desire to increase immigration should be a debt free society. Otherwise emmigration will accelerate the death spiral as no younger person would want to bear the tax burdens of the ageing.


On Nov 05 03:55 PM imagtek wrote:

> Japan, as an island nation, realizes that populations cannot grow
> indefinitely, and that an economy dependent upon continuous population
> growth is unsustainable. At some point, growth must cease and an
> alternative economic model must come into play.
>
> For Japan to continue 'dynamic economic growth', it must become a
> multi-ethnic society via massive immigration. In short, the cost
> of continuing economic growth is Japan must cease to be Japan as
> it has existed for centuries.
>
> Japan has chosen to remain Japanese, at any economic cost. The alternative
> is growth, at any cost, sacrificing national identity to postponing
> near term economic difficulties. Such a fix is temporary. Inevitably,
> all societies and in time, humanity, will encounter an upper limit
> to economic growth.
>
> Japan is the model for a sustainable economic future, if there is
> one. It should be watched closely and its decision to remain true
> to its historical identity should be respected. Economic growth at
> any cost via multiculturalism and massive immigration is a recent
> elitist political ideology that has not yet played out. Twenty years
> from now, nations that have sacrificed their national identities
> to multiculturalism in order to provoke one last spurt of economic
> growth may very well envy the Japanese solution when an economic
> downturn inevitably occurs in their balkanized societies.

Natural Gas ETF: The Short-Term Story

Going to the horse races and casinos is additive to GDP


On Aug 31 12:43 PM John Bowman wrote:

> Totally true! I have a relative (investment advisor) who follows
> dozens of charts all day long. He is in and then out of a market
> within hours or days. Tell me that the money that he is investing
> is contributing to the nation's GDP.
>
> Same thing as going to the horse races or the casinos.

High Frequency Trading and Goldman Sachs: Media View

Better for us if the insiders "steal" a fraction of a penny per share than the 25-50 cents per share "stolen" by the specialists 20 yrs. ago.