tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post1154785995498636712..comments2024-03-29T02:19:19.866-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Peak Prosperity — Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Has Arrivedmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-76827618519785714492013-06-24T08:37:14.555-04:002013-06-24T08:37:14.555-04:00"He is also a senior associate at the Center ..."He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Aging Initiative, and a senior advisor to the Concord Coalition."<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Howe<br /><br />He's with the Concord people too...<br /><br />So he is all caught up in the "debt/deficit" hysteria...<br /><br />These cycles he found I think are probably accurate, but his association with these out of paradigm political groups is probably preventing him from getting to the causality... <br /><br />rsp,Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-1873616205714854952013-06-24T08:12:46.937-04:002013-06-24T08:12:46.937-04:00Maybe the "turnings" line up with the hi...Maybe the "turnings" line up with the historic occurrences of gold/silver strikes...<br /><br />Find large deposits of these metals, things get better, population/economic growth follows, then the metals start to become scarce, things get worse, rinse and repeat..<br /><br />rsp,Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-58615046321040460372013-06-24T00:16:54.014-04:002013-06-24T00:16:54.014-04:00Actually, we can afford a much bigger government t...Actually, we can afford a much bigger government than the one we have promised ourselves. This should be obvious no matter what one's views are on money and public financing.<br /><br />Education, health care and retirement should be socialized. Real public investment in fundamental energy and transportation systems should be increased. The real resources that are currently being poured into the grotesquely unequal and inefficient private systems that handle these tasks need to be redirected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-19905405504098113152013-06-23T23:14:42.998-04:002013-06-23T23:14:42.998-04:00Tom his work was originally funded by Peterson don...Tom his work was originally funded by Peterson don't forget....<br /><br />I don't see how you can get the economics so wrong and still be right....<br /><br />RspMatt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.com