The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

To Build or Not To Build

The school-building boom extended well into the early 1980s before someone noticed there were fewer kids enrolling. By the end of the ’80s, we had closed almost 20 percent of public schools in the United States because we didn’t need them any longer. Many of these schools were then used as assisted-living facilities. Did anyone think that maybe, just maybe, the Baby Boom generation would have children and we might need those schools again? Apparently not, because here we are again, facing an enormous crop of school-age kids, the largest number our nation has ever seen. We are still seeing gross live births in the United States in excess of four million per year.

If only there was a way to predict the cyclical process ...