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Nanotech Venture Cap |
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| At the end of last year, the U.S. government committed $3.7 billion in funding to a technology that few people had even heard of a few years ago. Big corporations are investing $3 billion in it this year. And venture capital firms have poured $1 billion into small startups that focus on it over the past five years. |
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Japan Is Hot Again |
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| Since the year began, the Nikkei stock index has posted a gain of nearly 9 percent. That��셲 the best performance of all of the major stock indices of the G-7 nations, according to economist John Park of Kudlow & Company. |
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A New Tech Boom Gath |
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| As we��셶e just explained, when the housing market cools, the stock market will heat up.
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The Scientific Compu |
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| Humanity is on the verge of a new paradigm shift to rival the changes that were unleashed by the discovery of the atom and the invention of the computer. |
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The Emerging Tri-Pol |
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| Consider the big picture, as we��쫣e laid it out in previous issues of Trends:
瑗� The population of the developed world is rapidly aging.
瑗� The United States is the only advanced nation where the workforce is forecasted to grow over the next 50 years.
瑗� The populations of the EU and Japan are actually expected to shrink over that time period.
瑗� Even China is rapidly aging and the size of its workforce will peak around 2025.
瑗� At the same time, Latin America, India, the Middle East, and Africa all have young, rapidly growing populations of under-utilized workers and under-served consumers. |
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