[Cronos]

Your points are very good. Just to add to some of them:
There are hundreds of millions if not billions of people in SE Asia waiting to enter the low skill labor market and work for $.50/day.

The two big labour sources are India and China with about a billion people in the workforce. Even if you do combine Indonesia, the Phillipines etc. that number doesn't increase much.

The impact caused by these two giant ntions re-integrating themselves into the world economy WILL cause disruptions and these disruptions will last for the better part of this decade and well until 2020. Markets should stabilise by 2010 and be prety stable in 2020 unless a world war breaks out, but the possibility of that decreases each day as the major nations are more integarted economically with each other. E.g. France and Germany could never go to war with each other again, their economis are too interlinked, neither would England and France or Austria and Italy

The other good point:
Litigation, regulation, etc must be brought under control while still maintaining the necessary protections.
true.

[XBob]

152 - good points.

[ninenot]

unless a world war breaks out, but the possibility of that decreases each day as the major nations are more integarted economically with each other. E.g. France and Germany could never go to war with each other again, their economis are too interlinked, neither would England and France or Austria and Italy

You think that the economies of European nations from 1900-1939 were TOTALLY separated?

You have a new theory of war. Some would characterize it as Utopian--

Precisely your theory was brought up on an earlier thread--and referred to as the "management-class" theory; that the one-world UN-o-crats seem to think is operative.

In brief, your theory is Darwin's "all is progress" in geopolitics.

Of course, Darwin was wrong and your theory ignores reality.