While the EU, Russia, and Japan are shrinking, the United States is still growing. Part of that growth is coming from immigration and part is coming from a birth rate at near-replacement levels. However, adverse trends in the structure and dynamics of family life mean that the ability of many young Americans to compete effectively in the global economy is being jeopardized. What is behind this trend? What are the implications for the economy and society? What can we do about it? We'll explain.

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A decade ago, the Human Genome Project decoded the complete genetic code of a human being over a period of 13 years at a cost of $3 billion. Today, that feat can be accomplished for $60,000 in a few weeks. Within the next decade, it will take 15 minutes and may cost as little as $100. What are the implications of this 30-million fold improvement in price/performance? What are the opportunities and threats you need to be aware of as an investor, citizen, and consumer? We’ll give you our diagnosis.

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For decades, pre-fab building technology has played an important, but peripheral, role in commercial and residential construction. But now, new materials, methods, and markets are poised to make pre-fab construction a much more important industry. What are the implications and opportunities? We’ll show you.

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The population control movement was driven by a fundamental misunderstanding of how technology could -- and would -- transform economic realities. Living in a Malthusian world of limited resources, planners created a real catastrophe to replace the one they imagined. Looking ahead, how will the fundamental relationships among food, energy, affluence, and the quality of life change? What will this mean for your life, career, and investments? We’ll explain.

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Technology, demography, and attitudes are converging to make globalization the cornerstone of economic well-being in the 21st century. However, many of the same people who advocated population control, embraced socialism, and panicked over “limits to growth” are now united in opposition to globalization. Why is anti-globalization a genuine threat to the quality of human life? How will this debate play itself out? We’ll show you.

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How did we get on the trajectory to demographic oblivion? An intellectual elite assumed that central planners could make better decisions than the great mass of people operating in their own self-interest. In much the same way the “population control movement” is collapsing, communism collapsed everywhere except North Korea, Cuba, and a few other failed states. Similarly, the more user-friendly socialism of Western Europe is slowly, but surely, being dismantled. Just as some outdated thinkers still fret about over-population, a growing chorus of American “neo-socialists” wants to turn back the clock to the days of confiscatory taxation, excessive regulation, and proactive income redistribution. What’s really going on? What are the implications? How should we think about this resurgent paradigm? We’ll provide the answers.

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There’s no better example of what happens when ideologues try to tamper with normal market forces than the coming “demographic winter.” In the decades ahead, the world’s population will peak and begin to shrink. Long before the population peaks, it will dramatically age, throwing 20th century social institutions into disarray. The implications are ominous. Worse yet, the problem has been exacerbated by serious policy errors. And yet, many among the world’s elite still seem oblivious to this reality. How did we get here? What’s ahead for the U.S. and other countries? What can you do to make the best of it as a manager, investor, and citizen? We’ll explain.

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