Boom Bust and Echo: Profiting From the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century

"Previously published as Boom Bust and Echo 2000". When it was first published, Boom Bust and Echo became a national phenomenon that demonstrated the power of demographics to help us understand the past and forecast the future. Now this expanded paperback edition reveals Canada's demographic profile at the beginning of the 21st century as a new population shift is having profound implications for our economic and social life. * Why - -despite the inevitable market dips - stocks are a sound investment for the long term. * How the maturing of the echo generation makes the retail enviroment more complex. * Why private health care is flourishing while public health care needs reconstructive surgery. * How the aging of the echo geneeration is transforming Canada's educational system. * Why our future prosperity depends on understanding demographics - in Canada and around the world. -- from book's back cover