Posts Tagged ‘economics’
Update 4 2 2009
Speech given at Tony Robbin’s Wealth Mastery seminar on demographic trends, the economy and markets. Based on research by Harry S Dent and the HS Dent Foundation.
Bio of Harry S. Dent, Jr.,
Using exciting new research developed from years of hands-on business experience, Harry S. Dent, Jr. offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the economic future. As a best selling author on economics, Mr. Dent is the developer of The Dent Method – an economic forecasting approach based on changes in demographic trends.
In all of his past books since 1989, Dent saw an end to the Baby Boom spending cycle around the end of this decade.
In his new book, The Great Depression Ahead, (Free Press, 2009), Harry Dent outlines how this next great downturn is likely to unfold in three stages, with an interim boom stage between 2012 and 2017 before the long-term slowdown finally turns into the next global boom in the early 2020s. In his book The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1992, Mr. Dent stood virtually alone in accurately forecasting the unanticipated Boom of the 1990s. Today he continues to educate audiences about his predictions for the next and possibly last great bull market, from late 2005 into early to mid 2010. Since 1992 he has authored two consecutive best sellers The Roaring 2000s and The Roaring 2000s Investor (Simon and Schuster). In his latest book, The Next Great Bubble Boom, he offers a comprehensive forecast for the next two decades and explains how fundamental trends suggest strong growth ahead, followed by a longer-term economic contraction. Mr. Dent also publishes the HS Dent Forecast newsletter, which offers current analysis of economic, and financial market trends.
Mr. Dent received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and was elected to the Century Club for leadership excellence. Since 1988 he has been speaking to executives, financial advisors and investors around the world. He has appeared on Good Morning America, PBS, CNBC, CNN/FN, and has …
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http://www.globalchange.com Drop in fertility, aging impact. On current trends 8 great grandparents will be needed to produce a single great grandchild in countries such as Germany, Italy and Russia. Huge impact on markets, pensions, consumer choice, governments. New products and services for older clients. Longevity and life expectancy. Demographics and business. Workforce recruitment. Pensions crisis. Wealth management. Future of banking and financial services / insurance. Video of keynote conference lecture for financial services / bank by Dr Patrick Dixon
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Specifically, non-anarcho-capitalistic anarchists.
Basically anarcho-individualists, anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, all you anarchist folks out there. These questions are for you.
1) I’m rich. My dad worked his off for about 30 years before we finally made bank because of his innovation. He and those who worked with him all made it big in the tech business. Basically, my family earned its wealth. In an anarchist society, what would happen to everything we earned?
2) We have a nice house. Would we have to give it up to some crazy collective?
3) Why is capitalism exploitative? How is owning the means of production in private hands any different (or any worse) than having it public hands where nobody has the incentive to maintain it?
4) I understand the idea that when one guy works, one guy maintains, one guy sells, and they all get paid wages, while the management/investors/capital owners get everything, that that is kind of unfair. But didn’t they use their own money/wages to finance the corporation?
4) Lets say nobody is allowed to own capital goods. They remain open to the public and workers use them however they must. What incentive is there for people who have made it (like my dad) to invest money, etc into a start-up business if he’s not allowed to reap any profits? Wouldn’t we just sit on our money?
5) What is wrong with profits? Isn’t that more money that can be used to pay workers?
6) How would crime be addressed? The ANarchist FAQ suggests communal councils to address crime — isn’t that just government?
7) What do you do if someone ransacks your house?
What will stop new states from emerging?
9) Without the government to protect private property, what will happen to industries that provide jobs, etc?
10) How do you maintain 100% employment without causing a high level of inflation?
11) Please point me to place that describes anarchist economics — do anarchists actually believe in an alternative economic system (such as communism or socialism) and if so, how does it work?
12) I’ve heard that many anarchists are socialists, but not of the statist socialist variety. What is anarchist socialism? How does it work?
13) Guns — can I keep ‘em?
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Henk Potts at Barclays Wealth Management looks at yesterday’s interest rate cut plus were some investment opportunities might lie.
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Barclay CEO Bob Diamond is one of the highest paid bankers in the World. Since joining Barclays he has also taken control of the bank’s wealth management (Barclays Wealth) and fund management (Barclays Global Investors) divisions. Subsequent to the 2008 financial crisis, there has been controversy over Diamond’s pay as one of the world’s highest-earning bankers, collecting a package worth up to £27m in 2006, £36m in 2007 (approx. $70m USD), and holding Barclays shares worth £65m.
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http://www.globalchange.com Many fund managers don’t recommend own retail investment funds to family and do not chose to invest own wealth in own funds. Future scandal in fund management? Risk management keynote conference speaker Dr Patrick Dixon addressing 100s of leading fund managers. Market confidence and investment fund misselling? Spitzer inquiry into financial services integrity, sales commissions, agents and distribution. Real investment returns low in many actively managed funds compared to tracker funds. Management charges often wipe out gains and teams move between companies so another reason why performance varies even in same company.
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