“Demographics continue to define conflict in the Middle East. Here’s Egypt’s population by age group. In Western history, we showed in Financial Reckoning Day, the French and Russian revolutions also corresponded with epochs during which large cohorts of young people marauded about the countryside with nothing to do. Even here in the U.S., a restless band of baby boomers wreaked havoc in the 1960s… at least until the draft was abolished. If, as Auguste Comte suggested, ‘demography is destiny,’ we continue to wonder today what will happen to the West when hordes of those baby boomers, now old, have nothing to do… and no savings?”
http://dailyreckoning.com/baby-boomers-put-retirement-on-the-back-burner/
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