And just when you thought all was stabilizing

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Some different #'s-

http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/natproj.html


The U.S. population is growing larger.

Based on the middle-series projections, the Nation's population is projected to increase to 392 million by 2050 -- more than a 50 percent increase from the 1990 population size. During the 1990's, the population is projected to grow by 27 million, a 10.8 percent increase. This assumes that fertility, mortality, and net immigration would continue to reflect recent trends. Only during the 1950's were more people added to the Nation's population than are projected to be added during the 1990's. Using the lowest assumptions, the population would grow slowly, peak at 293 million by 2030, then gradually decline. Conversely, the highest series projects the population to increase quite steadily over the next several decades, more than doubling its 1990 size by the middle of the next century.

The U.S. population growth rate is slowing.

Despite these large increases in the number of persons in the population, the rate of population growth, referred to as the average annual percent change,1 is projected to decrease during the next six decades by about 50 percent, from 1.10 between 1990 and 1995 to 0.54 between 2040 and 2050. The decrease in the rate of growth is predominantly due to the aging of the population and, consequently, a dramatic increase in the number of deaths. From 2030 to 2050, the United States would grow more slowly than ever before in its history.

The U.S. population will be older than it is now.

In all of the projection series, the future age structure of the population will be older than it is now. In the middle series, the median age of the population will steadily increase from 34.0 in 1994 to 35.5 in 2000, peak at 39.1 in 2035, then decrease slightly to 39.0 by 2050. This increasing median age is driven by the aging of the population born during the Baby Boom after World War II (1946 to 1964). About 30 percent of the population in 1994 were born during the Baby Boom. As this population ages, the median age will rise. People born during the Baby Boom will be between 36 and 54 years old at the turn of the century. In 2011, the first members of the Baby Boom will reach age 65, and the Baby Boom will have decreased to 25 percent of the total population (in the middle series). The last of the Baby-Boom population will reach age 65 in the year 2029. By that time, the Baby-Boom population is projected to be only about 16 percent of the total population.
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I think this is one of the mistakes we are making by not allowing more immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. They have kids, lots of kids, integrate pretty well into the melting pot and work their butts off. By scaring them away and not legally allowing them to citizenship - and I'm not talking amnesty - we are shooting ourselves in the foot. We need a strong, growing younger population to thrive and that's not going to happen with current policies and gringo birth rates...
 
don't worry, mate. web 2.0 is an invented term, and not one that should be perpetuated. It's the same internet/web as always, we're just finding more uses for it.

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hot damn, are you new to the internet or something?
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Quote from bellman:

don't worry, mate. web 2.0 is an invented term, and not one that should be perpetuated. It's the same internet/web as always, we're just finding more uses for it.
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social groups have been on the internet for years. Newsgroups might be the earliest example. heck even yahoo groups and geocities paints a picture of the new social web from the 90s, even though neither really took advantage of the opportunity. you can basically call that web 1.0. they really didn't know the potential cash cow that they had.

web 2.0 is a buzzword, but it goes beyond what the internet was years ago, hence the creation of the buzzword.
 
Quote from ASusilovic:

ABK $ 28.24
Ambac Financial Group Inc. -2.18
Shares Short 19,209,400
Days to Cover (Short Ratio) 2.6
Short % of Float 20.72 %
Shares Short - Prior 14,056,500
Short % Increase / Decrease 36.66 %
Squeeze RankingTM -34
% from 52-Wk HIGH ( 96.10 ) -240.30 %
% from 52-Wk LOW ( 20.55 ) 27.23 %
% from 200-Day MA ( 80.95 ) -186.65 %

% from 50-Day MA ( 71.46 )
-153.05 %
Price % Change (52-Wk) -63.70 %
Trading Volume - Today 7,930,409
Trading Volume - Average 7,255,700
Trading Volume Vs. Avg. 109.30 %
Total Shares - Float 92,730,000
Total Shares - Outstanding 101,549,736
% Held by Insiders 6.02 %
% Held by Institutions 86.60 %
Market Cap 2,867,764,545
EPS 2.05
PE Ratio 14.80
Sector: Financial
Industry: Surety & Title Insurance
SI Record Date 2007-NovA
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It's an interesting article...
But what journalists think is of absolutely no importance.

One has to look at typical INVESTMENT GRADE corporate debt...
And see how MBIA or AMBAC insured debt is trading:

These are rough figures last several months:

US 10 Year Note: UP 6-7%

MBIA or AMBAC insured: basically FLAT

Uninsured >= BBB Corporate Debt: DOWN 15%

CONCLUSION

Bond traders not yet worried about insured debt.
 
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