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

The Anti-Immigration Debate

One of the ironies of the anti-immigrant rhetoric is that, eventually, Latino immigration will stop all by itself. These immigrants did not come to the United States for political asylum or religious freedom. They came here to work because there was work. The immigration/border issue will be resolved in less than five years without any help from vigilantes, rabid politicians, and needless legislation. The current immigration situation in the United States is precipitated by uneven demography.

For instance, beginning in 1965, the birthrate began to drop, bottomed out in the mid-seventies and recovered in the mid-eighties. The net result was a deficit of about nine million people over a twenty-year period. Remember ...