Monday, July 07, 2008

Births and deaths

There is something different about this graph.

It represents births and deaths.

But births and deaths of what?

When you look more closely the trend is very telling and quite disturbing.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It tells me my youngest was born in 2004.

Well I had better get back on the job :)

Lawrence

5:32 PM
mojo said...

Yep, shows an increase in mortality rates correlating with a reduction in smoking ... damn.
75,000 lives saved ... yeh right.

7:40 PM
mojo said...

Nope ... shows new business births declining and converging with increasing business demise ... a sort of homeostasis, negative feedback loop maintaining a no gain equilibrium ... akin to the mechanism that has disarmed the global warming alarmists.
But really reflective of exchange rates, reduction in spending , reduced consumer confidence, business confidence +++++
Damn.

7:50 PM
Anonymous said...

Births increse during finacial 'good times' and deaths increase during times of 'hardship'

So, the massive growth experienced over the last decade resulted in people feeling good and deciding to have kids. Labour, despite all their spin has done naught for the health or the wealth of the unfortunates of our society.

8:36 PM
Anonymous said...

It's saying that Atlas is shrugging

8:55 AM
Anonymous said...

A few things there. After the 2005 election enterprises died quickly and new ones stopped growing, the non productive housing boom got into high gear, inflation got going, interest rates took off, export values dropped, and a credit squeeze came home.

It's a profile of a country being sucked into non productive irrelevances like imports, overseas trips and housing speculation.

JC

9:32 PM

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