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To: Snowshoe who wrote (21481)	7/20/2002 3:59:26 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>the rest of you folks around the world will just have to step up to the plate and consume more stuff!<< I guess Japan, after 10+ years of passing on cheese and desert, would be the candidate of choice. Assuming the current population size of 126M of chronically underweight grows to obese 130M by 2005, the world stands a good chance. Now that the rice genome is nearly finished, some McGene could do wonders. dj PS: I assume you meant the dinner plate; PPS: I just dont know what the average weight of the remaining 55M by 2100 will turn out to be.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (21481)	7/20/2002 4:00:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Snowshoe, that's the ticket~ <the rest of you folks around the world will just have to step up to the plate and consume more stuff! > I'm going to buy: A Lexus [Japan has got cheaper too] Half a dozen Kyocera 7135s [grandson of pdQ, for the family] kyocera-wireless.com Earcells [not yet invented] - see note 1 New set of golf clubs [Calloway would be okay] Cessna Citation citation.cessna.com Lots of Microsoft stuff Lots of cyberspace stuff A few Segways Lots of Graviton stuff htt://www.graviton.com Hotel accommodation Car rentals DNA engineering Stem cell tissue replacement Lots of other stuff too. Mqurice Note 1 Earcell = Tongue, lip and larynx transducers for output [no need to talk, just move the lips, tongue etc in the form of the words] and nanotech ear-bone vibrators for input with 3D retina scan for vision Message 17708203

To: Snowshoe who wrote (21481)	7/20/2002 9:10:53 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Snowshoe, <<Americans will now reduce consumption and increase savings for retirement>> This would seem a wise and prudent course of action, after the epilogue of the Script, and before the next abracadabra. <<American products will be more competitive under the cheaper dollar>> Yes, but not before the rest of the Script that you seemed to have fast-forwarded and thus skipped: (a) Grindingly competitive and repeated devaluation, as each nation-state try to out do the other in lowering own currency, assured of success with each turn, in line, sequence and turn, again, to wash away the sin of socialism in Europe, the crime of banking in Japan, the felony of collapsing empire of Russia, the transgression of collective ownership in China, the indiscretion of bubble in the US, and the imprudence of bacchanal debt carnival of Latin America; (b) The whole world is becoming cheaper as well, by day after awful day, tick by downward tick; (c) Even as the whole world is, in fact, in the majority, becoming more acceptable, relative to each nation-state, as all are revealed now, in gory detail, to be about the same, and not much different; and (d) Abracadabra may be epi-centered elsewhere the next time around, especially if it involves dose-dependent market place, and minimum regulation dependent incubation (food biotech?). I believe we are in uncharted landscape, and anything can happen from this time point onward. I advise caution in making plans based on old assumptions taken from outdated maps, because we have a plain sheet of paper for a map. <<rest of you folks around the world will just have to step up to the plate and consume more stuff!>> As the US FED and Japan BOJ have artificially depressed our collective passive income, by lowering the short term secured rates, even as they failed to encourage longer term unsecured returns on capital, we, everywhere, are spending less, as we do not see where the next bit of wealth will come from, as the Script plays, especially because <<Americans will now reduce consumption and increase savings for retirement>> ... and then, presumably, retire, just not our Euro, Yen, Yuan, or even Dollar. The debt-ly dark interim is deadly. Chugs, Jay