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Re: [Pen-l] John Judis in the New Republic on Obama's choice for the CEA



I wondered:
> > "where will consumption demand come from in the
> future"?

Jim commented:
> 
> maybe nowhere. The US could switch over to being
> export-led, though it
> would take a while to make the transition (along with a big
> depreciation of the dollar, perhaps losing its reserve
> status). Just
> speculating for "Black Friday."

A decline in consumpion would be a good thing for the environment given the amount of resources the US uses. But I'm not optimist that a decline of consumerist culture in the US would be politically easy to pull off.




      
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