Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/13unboxed.html?_r=1&em

So the US is going to spend probably billions looking at new models. What a shame they didn’t listen to a someone who saw it coming and already had some pretty good models already in development.

‘Gross domestic product is an insufficient standard for determining economic health and should be expanded to include measures of sustainability and human well-being, a commission of leading economists said in a report presented to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on Monday.’

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html

I haven’t posted for quite a while for a variety of reasons that I won’t bore you with. Am following the discussions though. Thought you may enjoy this email doing the rounds if you haven’t seen it yet:

‘For those with an advanced knowledge of economics you may be interested in this!!

It is the month of August; a resort town sits next to the shores of a lake.

It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted.

It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 dollar bill on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.

The pig raiser takes the 100 dollar bill, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 dollar bill and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 dollar bill to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 dollar bill back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 dollar bill, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the Government is
doing business today.’