When we are told about off the scale net immigration to this country that means we refer to those who arrive who are generally poor and often unskilled but subtract those who leave. And a new survey out today shows the shocking data on who is leaving Bankrupt Britain. And it has dire implications for Government finances.
Asset manager David Murin posits that empires cycle through phases of thinking, with laterals leading initially and linears taking control as empires mature. He attributes the current global climate to an unprecedented level of linear thinking due to sophisticated money printing over the past two decades, which has left societies inflexible to dynamic threats.
It is seen as a given by the political, media and corporate elites.. Diversity boosts financial returns so is not only desirable but is a moral imperative. But, as I have noted many times, the data does not back this up. Before Christmas BlackRock released a report again pushing this line with the FT and City AM rushing to push the report and its conclusion. Nobody challenges the GroupThink on diversity lest they be accused of being sexist, racist, homophobic or all three. But that BlackRock report was utterly flawed as is demonstrated below.
There will be folks who insist that there is no safer investment bet than housing. Really? Maybe you want to check out the latest data from the ONS out today.
The threat to humanity is not the world having too many folks but too few. Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs and co-author of “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline,” says that fertility rates are dropping, leading to accelerated population declines since 2016-2017, even earlier than anticipated in China. This trend has significant consequences for economies that rely on people for growth and labour.