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The Job Shortage Tur |
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| A worker shortage. As recently as early 2003, over two million workers had lost their jobs since the start of the recession in 2001. At 6.2 percent, the national unemployment rate hovered at the highest level it had been in nine years, and the number of new jobless claims lingered above 400,000 for 20 straight weeks. People were screaming about offshoring, downsizing, and a lack of jobs. Little did they realize that they were at the beginning of a new era when skilled workers would be in very short supply and companies would be begging for workers. |
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Quashing the Identit |
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| In the past five years, more than 27 million Americans have been victims of identify theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission. |
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The Emerging Tri-Pol |
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| Consider the big picture, as we��쫣e laid it out in previous issues of Trends:
瑗� The population of the developed world is rapidly aging.
瑗� The United States is the only advanced nation where the workforce is forecasted to grow over the next 50 years.
瑗� The populations of the EU and Japan are actually expected to shrink over that time period.
瑗� Even China is rapidly aging and the size of its workforce will peak around 2025.
瑗� At the same time, Latin America, India, the Middle East, and Africa all have young, rapidly growing populations of under-utilized workers and under-served consumers. |
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The Search for Meani |
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| If you were to chart the objective indicators of social welfare since World War Two, you would see an across-the-board increase in such objective measures as per-capita income, ��쐒eal��� income, longevity, cars per driver, phone calls per capita, trips taken, highest degree earned, and even IQ scores. The graphs of subjective indicators like personal freedom, women��셲 freedom, and reduction of bias against minority groups would also show steady trends upward. |
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The End of the "End |
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| People who are spreading fear about the world running out of oil are either trying to distort the markets, or they fail to understand the underlying realities of the business that delivers gasoline to the pumps and petroleum products to nearly every niche in our modern economy. |
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