The Demographic Cliff

Free-market capitalism rewards those who produce and innovate the most, as does nature with its survival-of-the-fittest drive.

If you have the common sense to understand that you can’t fight a debt crisis with more debt, and that the massive Baby Boom generation around the world will only spend less as they age, not more, then you will listen to what I have to say and prepare your investments, your business, and your family and kids for this inevitable and necessary crisis

The economic truth is that you can’t have success without failure, you can’t have accountability without consequences. Governments are eliminating these crucial factors to give short-term relief, at the expense of killing long-term growth and innovation.

6. Convenience stores and drugstores 7. Pharmaceuticals and vitamins 8. Downtown townhomes/condos 9. Active exurban retirement communities 10. Recreational vehicles (RVs)

done. India is likely to be the next large-growth economy to eclipse China in growth after what has, thus far, been an inept

The Best Leading Indicator The best indicator? People do predictable things as they age. That’s it in a nutshell. So, let’s look at how demographics drive economic trends, from the macro to the micro, in modern middle-class economies.

we tell real estate investors to avoid property as a long-term, appreciating investment. That strategy is now dead. Instead, the best strategy for years to come is to buy real estate cheaply in foreclosure and then rent it out for positive

Trends get very favorable and then everyone wants to retire on them through speculation. China is the greatest bubble I have ever seen, as its government has driven its economy for decades solely through massive overbuilding.

Hence, you need to buy real estate only if you need it long-term, or to buy foreclosures in this global real estate bust with the intention of renting them out for positive cash flow.