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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
To Idealism, June 19, 2008
This review is from: Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves (Hardcover)
I enjoyed this book and the book taught me something. I learned a few things that I didn't know before. For me there was too much information about Canada and it's demographics. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada but I am more interested in the future demographics of the United States. As a former Oil Worker and current Peak Oil Researcher, I think demographics is the most important factor in Peak Oil. While everyone will focus on Oil Production and declining barrels, they most often never consider national or global demographis. Who will build our new energy world? You can't replace 78 million boomers with 48 million Gen Xer's. The Gen Xer's will already have careers and will be taking care of old parents and their young teen kids, or grandkids. It's my understanding that the generation after the Gen Xer's are about the same size or maybe a little smaller? What will happen when more than half of the country starts to retire? Who will replace the millions in the Oil & Gas Industry? Millions in Federal, State and Local Government? The Utility Industry? Nursing? This book is a good book but didn't answer these questions for me. Regards, Keith Renick, Peachtree City, Ga.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A Mirror into the Future, August 9, 2007
This review is from: Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves (Hardcover)
Every once in a while, someone writes a book that radically alters our perspective about our life, our history, our beliefs and ourselves. This is one of those rare occasions. The author documents how each baby boom in the last 200 years, and he shows that there were five, has followed a similar set of activities. There are several examples that are currently unfolding before my eyes. The first is the high stock market volatility and a credit crunch that has moved beyond the borders of the U.S. and has so far affected French, German and Australian banks, just when the baby boomers are beginning to retire. It makes me wonder where this is all going to end up. Another is in 1944 religious education became a legislated requirement in the schools of Ontario. The Conservative government was re-elected by a landslide for backing the issue. In 1969 the Mackay Committee recommended that religious education be removed from schools because it did not reflect the principles of modern education. Some sixty years later, in the coming election of Oct. 2007, the Conservative Party of Ontario will be taking the platform of funding religious schools again. Oh - those rappers - like Sean Kingston - they've announced that they are not going to cuss anymore in their music. Is this eerily reminiscent of the past - or the future?
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Got Me Out of the Market In Time, December 19, 2008
This review is from: Baby Boomers, Generation X and Social Cycles, Volume 1: North American Long-waves (Hardcover)
The information in this book got me out of the market in 2007. Didn't lose a penny to the bear market that followed. I don't know of any other book that called the downturn starting in 2007, but this one did. There is another date that it calls in the future. Let's see if it can get 2 in a row.
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