Thursday Thoughts – Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

“Still don’t know what I was waitin’ for

And my time was runnin’ wild

A million dead end streets and

Every time I thought I’d got it made

It seemed the taste was not so sweet

So I turned myself to face me

But I’ve never caught a glimpse

How the others must see the faker

I’m much too fast to take that test

“Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Turn and face the strange

Ch-ch-changes

Ooh, look out, you rock ‘n’ rollers

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Turn and face the strange

Ch-ch-changes

Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older” – Bowie 

I love it when I mention something in the Webinar and, the next day, it becomes a major article in the mainstream media.

We were discussing how Covid is permanently changing the cities and I was looking for statistics and now here they are.  NY, LA and Chicago alone lost 700,000 people last year – the population of a large city itself.  US population on the whole was the flattest it’s ever been, with 0.1% growth so please, tell me again how GDP is going to grow this year? 

The good news is that job growth is much more impressive when it doesn’t have to keep up with population growth.  In a normal…

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