thinking ahead

Emerging Market Equities Now Far More Interesting than U.S. Market

re: "Their American counterparts have seen life as a perpetual spring break interrupted by brief episodes of work..."

Your lazy US student/worker image is specious. Everybody I know in America has been working their butts off for the past 25 years, and that includes most students. Statistics regarding our average national workweek and annual vacation days confirm this. Your own situation may be different.