Re: BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? (Joy of life)

1998-08-08 Thread Tor Forde
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote: Good to hear from Tor again! Hopefully well-fare for people is still alive and well in the land of the midnight sun! Thank you! Just to mention that things are changing. A few months ago Denmark decided to raise taxes of the rich and lower taxes of the common

Re: FW: dieoff vs. y2k (and The Alexandrian Library redux)

1998-08-08 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Tom Walker wrote: All else being equal, I must say that predictions of a global oil peak sometime in the next 10-12 years look fairly credible. I'd even be sanguine enough to say that given the oilternative of global warming, the end of cheap oil may not be such a bad thing. Fund anything

FW: Boomer angst?

1998-08-08 Thread Tom Walker
In an earlier message (dieoff vs. y2k) I raise the spectre of a triple shock assault on growth economics: 1. the asian financial crisis 2. the y2k bug 3. the global oil production peak. Silly me. I left out the demographic crunch. Those familiar with Japan's economic problems point to Japan's

unemployment, growth, migration

1998-08-08 Thread Steve Kurtz
Greetings all, Hope you appreciate this twist re unemployment as stated by a physics prof. Steve Subj:Smart Growth Date: 98-08-03 23:01:23 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends, Thanks for your excellent piece, "Shortage of Housing = Longage of People" by