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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: elmatador who wrote (28404)2/4/2003 11:53:34 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
elmat,

This discussion of immigration into Japan misses the mark by a mile. The real question that this article fails to address is: "why is it that the native Japanese fertility rate has dropped below replacement rate?"

The answer, apparent to anyone who is more sensitive to the human condition than to the condition of his bank account is that Japan is terribly overcrowded, women of childbearing age largely see children as a terribly expensive and inconvenient burden, and further overcrowding the islands is hardly sane.

It is time that those who toil to create their fictions called "economic analysis" be forced to account for such things as depletion of the planet's resources, overcrowding and psychological malaise. Economists are guilty of conveniently assuming away the nettlesome aspects of analysis that interfere with their ideologies. In this, the pronouncements of "economists" is much like the cant and poppycock that is the usual product of the "priests" of our religions. Simple misdirection and sleight-of-hand aimed at gaining control of a befuddled public.

-Ray
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