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Tables of Contents for Agequake
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Part One - Faultlines
1
39
Boom, bulge and bust
2
17
When we were young
5
2
When pyramids flip...
7
1
...and populations implode
8
2
The hidden hand of demographics
10
4
How to survive - and profit from - the agequake
14
5
The future that's happened
19
21
Modern Methuselahs
20
5
Genetic elixirs
25
3
From baby boom to baby bust
28
3
The new home economics
31
1
Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
32
2
The new age of immigration
34
5
In the long run we are older
39
1
Part Two - Tremors
40
130
Financial rollercoaster
41
22
From counter-culture to equity culture
45
2
Europe's turn
47
3
Banquo's ghost turns up in Tokyo
50
4
The boomer bubble
54
1
The demographic fundamentals remain favorable
55
1
Gentlemen prefer bonds
56
2
Invest overseas - think demographic
58
3
Prospects for the 2000s
61
2
The new property game
63
19
Boom and bust in the UK property market
64
4
The trade-up factor
68
3
Empty nesters feathering new types of nest
71
1
Second homes
72
1
Immigrant power in the housing market
73
2
In and out places
75
2
New frontiers, new pioneers
77
2
The sun rises or sets over Sun Cities?
79
1
The new rules of the property game
80
2
The new business game
82
25
Poppa's little helpers
84
5
New masters of the universe
89
3
Leisure generation
92
3
Flat beer
95
3
Pass on the Big Mac?
98
2
Denim blues
100
1
The retail dilemma
101
4
No automatic winners and losers
105
2
Cultural revolution
107
22
Resetting the clock
108
3
Generational faultlines
111
2
Generations at war?
113
2
Mellow, mellow?
115
2
Rainbow societies
117
3
Rock on
120
5
Marketing to rainbow societies
125
2
Breaking waves
127
2
Work makeover
129
20
Man overboard
131
1
Ageism at work
132
2
How governments collaborate in ageism
134
5
An end to ageism at work?
139
5
The talent trawl
144
2
Avoiding the boomer jam
146
2
Preparing for the work makeover
148
1
Pensions crunch
149
21
Pyramid scams
150
3
The pensions triangle
153
2
Don't read their lips
155
3
The oversold Chilean model
158
3
The US grasps the third rail
161
3
Move over Darling: Britain tightens its embrace of private funding
164
1
European Titanics: full steam ahead
165
3
Don't believe the promises
168
1
The limits of reform
169
1
Part Three - Shockwaves
170
51
Richter nine
171
23
The rollercoaster plunges
172
3
Your money or your life
175
2
The end of growth?
177
3
The longest and deepest bear market in history?
180
1
End of the housing dream
181
2
Don't bank on inheritance
183
1
Will developing countries save the day?
184
2
The gamble on investing overseas
186
1
New economy?
187
4
Deaf ears
191
1
Timing is everything
192
2
New age
194
27
Rising suns set and setting suns rise
194
2
The US century (continued)
196
1
The euro's sternest test
197
2
Short-term renaissance, long-term decline
199
1
When tortoises beat hares
200
1
Russian cirrhosis
201
3
New world order
204
1
United we stand, divided we fall
204
1
Precipitate ageing in the developing world
205
2
Asian versus multicultural values
207
2
Global new age
209
2
Generations at war - let battle commence?
211
2
Hard choices on medical care
213
1
Social panic?
214
3
Confronting the sterility of modern capitalism
217
2
New age, new expectations
219
2
Appendix: Key terms
221
2
References
223
36
Index
259