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Movement of White Collar Jobs from USA to elsewhere

In the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's huge numbers of manufacturing jobs moved from the USA to elsewhere. The 2000's and 2010's may see similar (though likely not quite as extensive) movement of white collar jobs - this trend started in significant numbers in the 1990's. This will likely be one of the 5 most difficult macroeconomic factors facing the USA over the next 20 years.
It will be interesting to see if there is a different reaction from the established political and economic powers than the loss of blue collar jobs produced. The reasons for the move are identical, moving jobs to where they can be done less expensively.

Other significant macro economic factors: war and terrorism (destabilization, fear, waste of resources caused by actual war, threat of war and war like activity), inflation (budget deficits, stability of foreign currency markets, interest rates), aging of the population (in the USA, Europe and Japan), coping with pollution, law (how will law on the world wide level effect - patents, copyrights, fraud, medical care, privacy), concentration of wealth (a bad trait, that endangers future prosperity), education, crime, bioengineering, nano technology, health care costs.

Macro Economic Articles

Health Care - economic factors

  • Uninsured can affect entire community, CNN.com, March 2003. "The presence of a large number of uninsured people in a community can affect the availability of medical care for everyone, the Institute of Medicine reported this week."

Investment Articles

  • 5 ways to make the big trends work for you by Jim Jubak, MSN Money, 12 Aug 2003. Simple, short article provides advise on investing based on macro economic trends. "The portfolio for the next decade needs to be more hedged, more outward-looking and more flexible. Here are the companies and strategies to do it."

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