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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (45522)	1/20/2009 6:52:41 PM
From: SG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

I guess you fit into Heinberg's "don't worry, be happy, future neat things will cure everything" category. Good luck. SG

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (45522)	1/20/2009 6:59:19 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

>There have already been big changes made and inventions prepared.> MQ, Having dabbled in stock market and worked with dozens of startup clients, I have seen this kind of hopeful talk a lot. But the current crises has changed the driving force and gradient of money and work flow. And most corporations cannot survive 1 quarter without external funding when they lose 20-30 percent of their business this fast. And that is what is happening right now (both big ticket item drivers of economy - housing and cars are down by such percentages). Only real cash rich companies (Intel, Qualcomm, etc) are surviving somewhat easily. GE is surviving because of govt. help (who may be helping it sell nuclear reactors to the Middle East, and next Cold Storage units to Eskimos. -Arun

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (45522)	1/21/2009 3:21:07 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

Forget tech-based future. There's no money for such pet projects anymore. Get ready to a state-owned future. Kiwis and other matriarchal states (Scandinavia, Canada and Australia) are well posed for that future. Other countries will have a more difficult time. Governemnts will dole out entitlements to the -soon to be very docile- populaces. Will extort any surplus to pay for past misdeeds. There will be some countries that will still be savage capitalists with private ownerhship of the means of production. Those will act as the past, fiscal paradises.