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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Real Man who wrote (19596)	4/10/2009 8:35:24 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71412

The Russian markets will indeed rise more. The sustainability of Russian economic growth in the long term is in serious doubt. The culprits: population trends and public health: worldaffairsjournal.org ****** A third implication of the past decade and a half of sharply lower birth levels in Russia will be a drop-off in the country’s working-age population, and an acceleration of the tempo of population aging in the period immediately ahead. Barring only a steady and massive in-migration, Russia’s potential labor pool will shrink markedly over the coming decade and a half and continue to diminish thereafter. ****** By the late 1960s, the epidemic upsurge of CVD mortality in Western industrial societies that immediately followed World War II had peaked. From the mid-1970s onward, age-standardized death rates from diseases of the circulatory system steadily declined in Western Europe. In Russia, by stark contrast, CVD mortality in 1980 was well over 50 percent higher than it had been in “old” EU states as of 1970, and the Russian population may well have been suffering the very highest incidence of mortality from diseases of the circulatory system that had ever been visited on a national population in the entire course of human history Over the subsequent decades, unfortunately, the level of CVD mortality in the Russian Federation veered even further upward. By 2006, Russia’s CVD mortality rate, standardizing for population structure, was an almost unbelievable 3.8 times higher than the population-weighted level reported for Western Europe. Scarcely less alarming was Russia’s mortality rate from “external causes”—non-communicable deaths from injuries of various origins. The tale here is broadly similar to the story of CVD: impossibly high levels of death in a society that otherwise does not exhibit signs of backwardness. In Western Europe, age-standardized mortality from injury and poisoning, as tabulated by the World Health Organization, fell by almost half between 1970 and 2006. In Russia, on the other hand, deaths from injuries and poisoning, which had been 2.5 times higher than in Western Europe in 1980, were up to 5.3 times higher as of 2006. A broadly negative relationship was evident between mortality from injuries and per capita income. In other Western countries in 2002, an increase of 10 percent in per capita GDP was associated with a drop of about 2 points in injury deaths per 100,000 population. Yet Russia’s toll of deaths is nearly three times higher than would be predicted by its GDP. No literate and urban society in the modern world faces a risk of deaths from injuries comparable to the one that Russia experiences. Russia’s patterns of death from injury and violence (by whatever provenance) are so extreme and brutal that they invite comparison only with the most tormented spots on the face of the planet today. The five places estimated to be roughly in the same league as Russia as of 2002 were Angola, Burundi, Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. To go by its level of mortality injury alone, Russia looks not like an emerging middle-income market economy at peace, but rather like an impoverished sub-Saharan conflict or post-conflict society.

To: Real Man who wrote (19596)	4/10/2009 10:07:57 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71412

That's a damn fine piece. As usual, Noland is out in front of this. China is going to be spending their surplus dollars (of which they have boatloads) on "stuff." Prices here are going to be going up substantially. Wages, however, won't. We are screwed.

To: Real Man who wrote (19596)	4/10/2009 11:13:13 AM
From: axial	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71412

It's amazing that none of these analysts even mentions what the Fed has said, and been quoted on. That's the second half of crash avoidance: when inflation starts to kick in. Then (they say) they'll start withdrawing liquidity from the economy, in order to avoid a Zimbabwe scenario. Many doubt that it can be done, but that's not the point; even the attempt will have an effect on the domestic economy. The Fed's on the record, but nobody even considers it. No effect? On markets? On credit? Au contraire. And if the Fed fails, look out. Some analysis we're getting these days. Jim