EXPONENTIALITY LEADS TO FINALITY
As technological developments and markets go parabolic, we observe many market “experts”, even intelligent ones, forecasting that we are now in an exponential economic era. Thus many believe that this will go on forever. This is the typical attitude at market and economic tops and guarantees that THIS WILL NOT END WELL!
It is clearly absolute nonsense to believe that exponential expansion based on deficits, debts and fake money is the beginning of a new era. Anyone studying the economy and history of markets knows that exponential moves indicate the end of an era and not the beginning. As I have repeatedly said, history is our best teacher and it both rhymes and repeats itself. And history now gives us dire warnings.
ARE WE IN A PARADIGM SHIFT?
But for some reason, human beings always extrapolate current trends whether it is population growth or stock market rallies. We know from statements at historical tops like 1929, 1987 or 2000 that anyone, from politicians to investors at the time, believe that the trend will go on for ever and that the world has made a paradigm shift.
Many markets and investments are now going up exponentially and very few forecast an end to this euphoric state.
GLOBAL POPULATION TO HALVE?
Let’s start with global population. For thousands of years we saw a very slow and steady growth as the graph below shows. In the mid 1850s world population reached 1 billion.
Since the mid 1800s, we have seen exponential growth in population and we are now almost 8 billion people on earth.
Energy and oil in particular plays a major role in this growth, leading to increases in food production, industrialisation, better health care for people etc.
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