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Millenials Cause Homeownership Rate to Drop to Lowest Level Since 1965 -Diana Olick, CNBC, July 29, 2016

Millenials Cause Homeownership Rate to Drop to Lowest Level Since 1965 -Diana Olick, CNBC, July 29, 2016 Ms.Olick “blames” millenials for causing low home ownership rates but the primary causes are low interest rates that inflate assets such as houses, foreign and immigrant buyers and high student debt loans – all of which place home […]

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A new industrial revolution is coming. Is Theresa May ready for the chaos it could unleash? – William Hague, The Telegraph, July 25, 2016

A new industrial revolution is coming. Is Theresa May ready for the chaos it could unleash? – William Hague, The Telegraph, July 25, 2016 Automation will make white collar workers redundant on a scale comparable to that experienced by blue collar workers in the second half of the twentieth century. (See also DBP chapter “The […]

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BBC Documentary, “The Truth About Immigration” Part 2 – Jerry Kammer Blog, Centre for Immigration Studies, January 16, 2014.

BBC Documentary, “The Truth About Immigration” Part 2 – Jerry Kammer Blog, Centre for Immigration Studies, January 16, 2014. This blog post, written in 2014 by Pulitzer Prize winner Jerry Kammer, was recently sent to me. It provides analysis and a link to the BBC documentary in which it is revealed that in the year […]

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New Record Set for World’s Cheapest Solar, Now Undercutting Coal – Anna Hirtenstein, Bloomberg, May 3, 2016.

New Record Set for World’s Cheapest Solar, Now Undercutting Coal – Anna Hirtenstein, Bloomberg, May 3, 2016. The United Arab Emirates is leading in solar power generation at rock bottom costs but even these aren’t generating profits. Kondratieff teaches that only when an innovation becomes profitable, will it help spur an upswing.

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The number that tells us the economy might be doomed – Matt O’Brien, The Washington Post, March 23, 2016

“Or, as Larry Summers argues, it takes lower and lower interest rate to produce less and less growth. It’s a new old problem called “secular stagnation, where slow population growth means slow investment growth – why build new offices and houses if there aren’t new people for them? That turns today’s slow recovery into tomorrow’s […]

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