is this a reference to british settlement? if so I don't think stealing was the crime as it is labelled an invasion. It's a tough one, I would like to go to the US or Norway but I can't just rock up there on the basis that I seek a better life.
ha ha - yeh if it wasn'ts so scary it would be funny. What other creditor could have unfettered access to funding at such extraordinarily low rates with little or no hope of repayment??
yeh chuck that on as well.
what's the point - are you saying that population growth always lowers living standards? is this proven in the case of say the UK and US and similar countries?
regardless of what the stats there is clearly a case for economies of scale and international...
it was the cheap energy that gave us technology, cheap food and cheap entertainment. it would make sense that as the cheap oil goes that everything else shrinks with it. can we find an alternive?
I believe there are limits to global population growth and resource consumption and that day is...
all RIPs should assume at least 10 years of no growth as this is quite possible. this is the problem with neg gearing - you really need that growth to support the investment, so you keep holding on, and on, and on. can you keep holding on?
depends on the timeframe you want to take... the end of WW2 was a defining moment for western democracy, not to mention an ever evolving mountain of currency and debt. take a ruler and extrapolate as far as you like