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| If you have sons and daughters between the ages of 8 and 14, you might still think of them as children. But for more and more businesses, they are neither children nor traditional teenagers; they萸쮍 tweeners. And tweeners are becoming one of the hottest consumer demographic clusters ?and a big opportunity for revenue growth. |
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Increasing Global Ec |
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| Prior to the past decade, the Federal Reserve and U.S. government controlled all the resources they needed to implement monetary and fiscal policies required to salvage the U.S. economy. At the same time, because the U.S. economy was so big and powerful, its recovery alone would create the momentum needed to enable our trading partners to recover as well. |
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The Fifth Wave of th |
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| The global availability of capital is converging with a number of other trends to pave the way for the final and most important phase of the information revolution. Every technological revolution goes through a series of waves or stages of creative destruction. This is as true for today��셲 computer-based revolution as it was for those based on the steam engine, or the automobile. |
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From Here to Immorta |
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| Until recently, only a tiny fraction of Americans reached their 100th birthdays. Yet, with technologies available today or already in the pipeline, this number has already begun to increase dramatically. For example, in 1990, there were 37,306 Americans who were at least 100 years old. By the year 2010, there will be 131,000. And, by 2050, projections by the U.S. Census Bureau anticipate there being 834,000 centenarians. |
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The Increasingly Bin |
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| Over the past 15 years, the United States has become the world��셲 sole superpower, dwarfing every other nation in terms of economic and military might. And while Japan, Russia, and the EU have fallen further behind, one nation has emerged to join the U.S. as the primary driver of global prosperity: China. In astronomical terms, we might envision the U.S. and Chinese economies as two stars revolving about each other, while accelerating and pulling a host of planets along with them. |
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