Not quite. Look at the birthrates for first world country's verses third world country's. Plenty of data to see where the demographics are heading. 2.1 is the replacement rate. Anything below and you are a shrinking population (minus new immigrants), above and your population is growing. The one correlation that is true is that as an economy becomes richer, they have less kids.
George, I think the next battlefield isn’t the same as the old one.
The reality is that if something is connected to the internet, our agencies can access it—all of it. Access has never been the hard part. Once we have the data (and we already have more than anyone could ever begin to comprehend), the real challenge begins: finding the needle in the haystack—the signals that actually matter and are actionable.
We already possess all the data we need. AI is starting to make that needle-hunting problem more manageable, but our adversaries are right there with us, doing exactly the same thing.
It’s not planes and battleships anymore.
Their world resides in a bubble, and the wounds are self-inflicted. The continuous reinforcement of non-reality pontification and groupthink leads this group to be detached from reality.Unfortunate, but true. Would you trust an academic to run your business? Well, that answers the question.
@ren_stocks Irony would be if they announce on Monday a stock buyback. Oh, "X" would explode. Kind of rooting for something like that, just to get my feed to the boiling point. We need something to get through August until all the folks on vacations get back to work.
I think the point of my post was to have people leave their tribe for a moment, forget what side you are on and just be fair in your assessment as what could have caused the voting spike. Since no correct answer will ever please most of the people, we can leave it where it as, just a strange thing to have happened.
@ggreenwald Maybe turning up to vote is sometimes more of a "I dislike the other person so much I am voting not for this person, but as a vote against the other person". Otherwise, I am at a loss on the 80 million votes for Biden given the zero enthusiasm for him
I have been a regular reader of various newsletters on the Kitco platform for decades. I personally know many people in the mining industry and have for decades. Your post is basically a weekly newsletter reveal for decades, every week for decades. Yet they are hoarding dollars, they have always hoarded dollars.
Where have you seen the highest costs rise when on tour? insurance, rent, promoters, local labor, lighting, sound, etc.? Curious to see where the noose got tightened, my gut tells me across the board with insurance and rental fees leading the way. Those are hard fixed costs that you probably try and work everyhitng else through.
@RushDoshi You can't can't have an economy where the only product is people sellig insurance to each other. High value added goods and services is the optimum landing spot for a country to continue to grow and prosper.
Last week I was an expert on memory stocks, over the weekend I became an expert on oil prices, last night I knew everything about Private Credit stashing their investments in insurance company's, tonight I think I will become an expert on Magnesium Glycinate and the importance of sleeping 8 hours a night. My yearning for knowledge never ceases.
U.S. Treasury supporting the Yen and calling it something else instead of printing money? The balance sheet still expands.
It’s exactly what Juliet meant:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Whether you call it money-printing, quantitative easing, or “a separate reserve,” the substance stays identical—new dollars are still being created. The label changes nothing about what it actually is.