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The Greatest Wealth Shifts of All Time

by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 08-10-09
Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.

While the U.S. stumbles into a feeble recovery, Brazil and China are leaping ahead into a new boom.

It’s an economic gap of massive dimensions and unprecedented consequences.

It’s gradually turning the global balance of power upside down and inside out.

Most important for investors, it’s generating some of the greatest wealth shifts of all time.

To grasp the enormity of the gap, just look at the latest jobs reports from each country …

U.S.: Chronic Depression-Level Unemployment

Friday’s jobs release had several positives: Employers shed fewer jobs. Hourly earnings climbed a tad. The number of hours worked ticked up slightly. And even the unemployment rate itself slid by a tenth of a point. (See Mike Larson’s blog.)

This underscores our view that the U.S. economy could enjoy a feeble recovery for several more months, much like Japan did in response to massive government intervention during its lost decade of the 1990s. (Watch the video with my forecasts or review the transcript.)

So for anyone who had been hammered to a pulp by prior unemployment disasters, the news was clearly “less bad.â€

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