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		<title>The New European Exile</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/05/10/the-new-european-revolt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowed by large national debt and unfavorable demographics, some young Europeans have given up on change. They just want to leave. One of the main benefits of forecasts based on demographics is the fact that they can be more precise and therefore more reliable than others. For example, the number of people aged 40 in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=2257&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe: Was (Is) It Worth The Trouble?</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/02/22/europe-was-is-it-worth-the-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by SAMI KARAM (also published at Seeking Alpha) No for indexers. Yes for macro trend investors. Maybe (but probably not) for bottom-up stock pickers. European stocks face a unique situation, which is that, outside of the rolling debt crises from Ireland to Iceland to Greece to Spain, their performance has been, and will continue to be, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1633&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8216;America&#8217;s Baby Bust&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/02/12/on-americas-baby-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by SAMI KARAM (also published at Seeking Alpha) Jonathan Last&#8217;s recent article in The Wall Street Journal is sufficiently alarmist and buzz-generating to please his agent and publisher on the eve of the release of his book What to Expect When No One&#8217;s Expecting, with the doom and gloom tagline America&#8217;s Coming Demographic Disaster.  &#8216;No One&#8217; is an exaggeration since [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1598&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What If Large Taxpayers Move Away?</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/01/25/what-if-large-taxpayers-move-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of aging populations, many governments will need higher tax revenues.  But technology and globalization are making it more difficult to raise taxes. It would be easy to dismiss actor Gerard Depardieu’s move to Belgium to avoid France’s new 75% marginal income tax rate as an isolated and inconsequential event, but it would probably be an incomplete [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1240&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FT: China’s Working-Age Population Is Shrinking</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/01/24/ft-chinas-working-age-population-is-shrinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHN MORGAN writes in MONEYNEWS: China’s working-age population actually declined in 2012, a trend that concerns the government and that could have a serious longer-term impact on the world’s second largest economy, according to the Financial Times. China’s population aged 15 to 59 was estimated at 937.27 million at the end of December — a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1491&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Proposal for Social Security Reform and Medicare Modernization</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/01/17/usa-proposal-for-social-security-reform-and-medicare-modernization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, an association of CEO&#8217;s of leading US companies released proposals to reform Social Security and Medicare.  Among its recommendations  are an increase of the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 70 and means-testing of Social Security and Medicare benefits.  FULL REPORT.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1457&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GCC population to soar by 30% by 2020</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/01/03/gcc-population-to-soar-by-30-by-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GCC countries are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. SHEHAB AL MAKAHLEH writes in GULF NEWS (via Zawya.com): Abu Dhabi: The GCC population will soar by 30 per cent to 53.5 million people who will form an increasing strain on the region’s supplies of electricity, food and water, a report [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1356&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanzania Population 45 Million, Annual Growth 2.7%</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2013/01/03/tanzania-population-45-million-annual-growth-2-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The population of Tanzania grew by 10.5 million people in the last decade.  That is a 30.4% increase in ten years, or an annual rate of 2.7%, one of the highest in the world. ROSE ATHUMANI writes in the TANZANIA DAILY NEWS, via ALLAFRICA.COM: PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete announced the 2012 Population and Housing Census preliminary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1353&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Population 35 Million</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2012/12/21/canada-population-35-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEREK ABMA writes at GLOBAL TORONTO: OTTAWA – Canada’s population has surpassed 35 million for the first time,  according to a new estimate from Statistics Canada, and this country’s continual  growth brings about both benefits and challenges, experts say. The  federal agency issued a quarterly population estimate this week showing  35,002,447 people living in Canada [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1350&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Croatia Sees Population Drop Over Decade</title>
		<link>http://populyst.net/2012/12/19/croatia-sees-population-drop-over-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BORIS PAVELIC writes in BALKAN INSIGHT: Croatia&#8217;s population dropped by some 150,000 people over the past decade, according to the results of the 2011 census published Monday. 4,284,889 people currently live in Croatia, the census data showed. The drop in population is equal to the size of the country&#8217;s third city, Rijeka. Commenting on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=populyst.net&#038;blog=27438691&#038;post=1345&#038;subd=populyst&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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