How Changing World Demographics Affects Your Investments and Careers

About the Book

Using the principles in this book, the individual investor, the small business man, corporate executives and those developing careers, have a unique opportunity to prepare a strategy for the sea changes in investment choices, consumer demand, business opportunities and social changes forthcoming. Not doing so will ensure failure. At the turn of the 20th Century approximately one out of every three people on earth were of Caucasian or “white” ancestry. By the year 2000 that number stood at one out of seven. By the end of this century, demography experts predict that number to plunge to one out of twenty. Likewise in the United States, in 1900, approximately nine-tenths of the population was white. By 2000 that number had dropped to seven-tenths. Demographers project that number to be less than one half by 2053 and a little more than a third by the end of the century. The reason? If you were to ask the layman on the street he might respond “It’s because Africans, Asians, Indians or Middle Easterners are reproducing in large numbers.” However, in actuality, the birth rates of these “developing” populations—though still at a high level—have themselves declined over 50 percent in recent years. The core reason for this disproportionate Caucasian decline is their own extraordinarily low birth rates—the subject of this book. From the days of early Rome, throughout the reign of the Titans, into the development of constitutional law and the cultural and technological breakthroughs of the 20th Century, indisputably, Caucasians have led the charge and reaped the concomitant high living standards, asset, status, and wealth benefits. This will begin to change by mid century. Many celebrated authors in the demographics field have written books on this birth decline phenomenon. Some of the more prominent include: Fewer: How the New Demography Will Shape Our Future, by Ben Wattenberg; The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birth Rates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It, by Paul Longman; A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity by Jay Winters and Michael Teitlebaum; Global Aging and its Economic Consequences by Robert Lee. All of these books delineate clearly the problems associated with birth decline. All note the dramatic consequences particularly amongst Western societies. This book, however, stands alone in giving the philosophical/ideological underlying causes (The 7 basic principles) for these dramatic changes in birth rates since the mid ’60s in the United States and the rest of the world. In addition, these publications miss the opportunity to prepare the reader to capitalize on the investment, business and employment effects of this phenomenon. It prepares the reader to adjust his thinking to an age of population decline before the effects leave him behind the curve of change.

About the Author

About the Author: Though earning a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and working in the engineering field 40 years—awarded several patents in the glass-fiber-forming process—the author's passion has always been writing. Instead of rapaciously focusing on cement, cold steel and unchangeable physical laws—the holy grail of engineering—his mind danced with ideas for books: conflicts, crises and resolutions, his own and the experiences of others, real and unreal. He retired in 2005. He has written extensively all his life. Evenings he attended San Jose State University accumulating over 40 units of credit in writing classes. Concurrently, he served on the board of directors of 3 NGO philanthropic non-profit organizations performing duties of General Secretary and Newsletter Contributor for a cumulative total of 18 years: World Runners, Global Partners for Development, and the International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends. His personal writing includes 6 books, and a collection of 10 short stories. Twenty years ago he decided to become an author, regardless. Having prepared himself by reading and writing extensively all his life, he took advanced writing classes at San Jose State University at night. And, he started writing books. He had a mental list of all the books he wanted to write with structural outlines in mind. A brief summary of the books: 1. Knee High to Hell. The author’s father, born in Austria, took his family on a visit to his homeland at the outbreak of the 2nd World War. Unable to obtain return passage for a year and a half, George’s older sister attended grade school. The book describes her required participation in the Hitler-youth training programs from the perspective of a ten-year-old foreigner in a hostile country and their adventures in finding a circuitous-route return to the America. 2. Long Before Glasnost documents the birth and development of the largest running club in history and its participation in the Moscow Marathons for seven years prior to the demise of Communism in the Soviet Union. It presents evidence that this organization by changing the way Russian citizens appraised Americans contributed to this change of government. 3. Living on Lifesavers depicts the author’s experiences working for Arthur Murray Dance Studios for five years while attending college. The book uses satire to exploit the quasi-humorous Machiavellian marketing procedures so pervasive and yet so entirely legal in the 1970s. The readers become swept up in the glamour of the ballroom dancing era resurfacing today due to the success of the Dancing with the Stars TV program. 4. Mentor tells the story of a black man who acts as a big brother to an incorrigible white youth in New York City (a twist from the usual). Ralph finally turns the boy around through an act of forgiveness. The reformed youth becomes principal of his former high school and has a vision to convert an adjacent three-city-block streetcar-storage area into a community recreational center. A court battle and an election follow—two venues naturally rife with inherent drama. 5. Best of Enemies depicts two of the most bitter enemies contrivable thrown together by fate in a situation whereby each depends on the other for survival. The irony of the ongoing conflict between satisfying hateful revenge and the instinct to survive adds drama to the action.