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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:35 PM
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We Are Not Alooine - Or Are We?
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We Are Not Alooine - Or Are We?
June 15th, 2009

As a reader of UrbanSurvival (and maybe as a subscriber to our premium service Peoplenomics.com) you already know that my skepticism about both the depth and duration of what was first baled a ‘recession’ has been horribly underestimated by convention economists who have yet to come to terms with two hugely important economic realities.

The first of these is a 70-85 year economic cycle, which has features (starting from the Country’s founding) of a Civil War, a Great Depression, and now…whatever it is that we slide into between now and 2013. Cycles are real, and hordes of group-think economists of the lock-step variety won’t change that reality, any more than wishing the tide wouldn’t come in has a snowball’s chance in hell of working, either.

The other point missed widely is that the whole world’s economy is interdependent such that what used to be local or sub-regional economic impacts are now as contagious as the pandemic flu.

Having these two concepts firmly in mind, I’m just a little disappointed to read that
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ORDagnabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:40 PM
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1. love george! he's kept me ahead of the game for years now.
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bertman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:49 PM
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2. First, please to explain, what means "Alooine"?
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:59 PM
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3. After you find out, you tell me, ok??? It sounds bad....I think...
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