Our Casino Consumer Economy

Lessons are never learned! Even with all the historical documents from the 1920's, we are repeating the exact same behaviors that drove us into the Great Depression! Now well into The Great Recession, will we repeat the mistakes of the past or blaze into new paths for the future? My guess is we will repeat the mistakes of the past. Sorry I can't be a tad more optimistic.

With Seven Hundred Trillion Dollars in credit default swaps floating around out there, as the basis of our wealth, what would we do if they all cascaded into default? Even the country of Russia has proven that a large nation can default on it's bonds and no one can help them bail out that loss. Japan is currently struggling because their national debt is equivalent now to their annual gross national product!

With our economy now based on casino gambling on Wall Street, and in the Banks, as they are the ones who hold most of the credit default swaps, how soon will it be before the luck runs out?

Japan might be the next country, after Russia, to show us.

The Third World War will likely occur around 2020 as at that point economies will be breaking and the National Treasury of many countries will be collapsing. China will go belly up because we went belly up because Japan went belly up. The perfect trifecta for a World War.

Real wealth used to be held in gold and Real Estate. It still is on a small level, but let me give you some perspective. The entire real estate value of New Hampshire, when I was a kid, was fifteen billion dollars. Compare that to seven hundred trillion in credit default swaps, and you'll see that the entire real estate value of the United States isn't even seven hundred trillion!

We used to focus on Fort Knox and the national wealth of gold it contains. Does it even still exist? Has all the gold been sold off? How much gold is still in there? In the old days, countries made transactions in gold. Now what do they trade with us, credit default swaps, stocks, and derivatives? A pile a paper that can become valueless in an instant.

So my message is the new generation should focus on building a country of real wealth, were we have real jobs that make great things for our lives, not more mathematics on paper. We must build great things, and once again, accumulate real wealth. We'll see what happens.

I also want to Thank Our Sponsors for the Ikeler4000. Keep an eye on the home page of Ikeler4000.com as we already have about a hundred and fifty sponsors and growing. Get an ad space now and share in the million visits per month to the web site that this traffic is bringing!

Stayed tuned!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Is The Recession Over?

Of Course, Wall Street has announced that the Recession is over! I guess it is for them. It probably never even appeared on their horizon because they just make up their net worth, but for the rest of America, things are going to get worse.

History repeats itself constantly. You are fooling yourself if you think it doesn't. Just like the stock market crash of 1929, the stock market crash of 2009, (which was predicted to occur by experts like Harry S. Dent because it is part of the natural 80 year economic cycle) is just the beginning of the next Great Depression. It will not be as bad this time, because the government learned and now knows it has to spend our way out of this depression.

Just like in 1929 though, that was just the beginning of the depression. The bottom of the valley floor came along in 1933, four years later. We will see a similar drop in the economy, which will hit bottom at the prophetic end of civilization, December 21, 2012. It's spooky, but actually, it's a mathematically predicted model.

My mother worked for the CIA after she graduated from college, and she and my father even met in Washington D.C. My mother said there were forces other than the federal government that control the world and make most things happen. She was right, but I doubt she knew about credit default swaps and derivatives.

The current estimated derivatives market is 595 Trillion Dollars. That figure is correct. Five Hundred and Ninety Five Trillion Dollars, with a "T". That is equivalent to the American Gross National Product for the next Forty Two Years. It is also equivalent to the World Gross Product for the next Eight and a Half Years. That means that if these fabricated currencies defaulted, and they almost did, it would take all of America forty two years to cover the loss.

I think it is outrageous that our government even allows such artificial wealth to exist. A smaller, but more obvious example is the stock market. In the late nineties, there were computer software companies doing six hundred thousand dollars a year in business (equal to the average 7-11) that had a Billion Dollar Stock value on Wall Street. Is that real value, or just a fabrication? It is obviously a fabrication. And an outright lie.

I find it disturbing that the news media gives the Dow Jones Industrial Average on television every night because that, in itself, is part of the "Pump and Dump" hype cycle that the stock market thrives on. We are entering late October, so I recommend you sell your stocks now. The pump and dump cycle can be summed up with the phrase: "Buy in May, sell in October." Get out now, watch the market crash again in the spring, and then buy low again in May. I hope this insider information helps you.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Pet Airways Sponsors The Ikeler4000

We are delighted to have Pet Airways as a Sponsor for the Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight! This airline specializes in carrying pets-only to their destinations around the United States. Many people find this service preferable to having their pets shipped as cargo, as they are, on conventional airlines.

When I was a student in college, a professor remarked that we were getting the true "Beverly Hills Education" as we could buy the class notes service and get notes from our lectures even if we didn't show up. I bought the notes, and also took notes, and read all the assignments too. He said student life had come a long way with word processors and note takers and old exams on file to aid in our education. I'm sure today though, thirty years later, the professors notes are all online, old exams are all online and everything you need to know to get an "A" is online too.

Well now pets get a piece of the Beverly Hills lifestyle! They have their own airline and are the only passengers in the main cabin of each flight. They have their pet specialist flight attendants, customized meal service, and potty breaks too. What more could a jet-setting pup ask for?

I think this is a wonderful service and I hope this airline does well. Pets are not cargo and should not be left in the hold with the baggage to see if they make it on an air flight across the country. Dogs and cats deserve the best and this airline is their to provide it for them! Welcome Pet Airways. We are delighted to have you with us. See their site at http://www.petairways.com/

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Mission Progress And Movie Debut

This week we had the privilege of adding more great sponsors to the Ikeler4000 homepage. One of our sponsors is movie producer Mark Grady who's movie, Blaire's Bridge, opens today September 19, 2009. The movie is based on Mark's book of the same title. We wish him the greatest success with this release! Mark is a very experienced pilot and you can check out his web site at http://www.websterfallsfilms.com/ If you can't make it to the movie, you can order his book online at http://www.markgrady.net/

We are getting closer to the exponential part of the sponsor s-curve as I can see and feel the interest. Moving out of the early adopters phase and into the early majority phase will take us to rapid growth and funding to complete the mission and flight. The late majority follows quickly thereafter and we should have all needed funding with in a few months. Tell your friends to sign on now, as top of the page placement gets the greatest attention.

We are pleased that we are able to help other great and worthy causes, like CarolAnn Garratt's Dash For A Cure http://www.alsworldflight.com/ to bring one million dollars to ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) research. We are also pleased to be helping Alley Cat Allies http://www.alleycat.org/ in their mission to help stray cats find homes and reduce the stray cat populations through spaying and neutering. I did work for many years for their organization at my Cat Hospitals of Denver. They are great people with a great cause.

I will continue to update everyone with mission progress reports as they develop. Thank you for your interest and support.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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The Wing And The Wave

With daily news about the economy, the question becomes, "What lies ahead?" Well, a certain amount of "shakeout" is on the horizon, which in the short term may make things look glum, but in the long term, we are entering a five thousand year cycle of global prosperity the likes of which mankind has never seen before.

The Egyptian mega city of Cairo achieved revolutionary domination in progress five thousand years ago, in 3000BC. They did it with two simple tools. The pencil and the wheel. The pencil, and it's variations, produced the written language so that complex information could be stored and transmitted to other people. The wheel, and it's variations, produced the capacity for transporting people and large and useful goods around Egypt and around the world.

We have come a long way in five thousand years, but fundamentally, we have not progressed until now. The two new inventions that will carry us for the next five thousand years are The Wing and The Wave. The wing, and it's variations, will make most all transportation aeronautical, with autoplanes (like the Ikeler4000) replacing our automobiles. This will bring about an exponential increase in the speed and efficiency with which people and goods move around the world. We already have this today to some extent with commercial airlines, but the future will advance aviation technologies like you can't imagine.

The wave, that is the electromagnetic wave, as in radio, cell phone, and communications waves will transform our knowledge and information transmissions exponentially above what has ever existed in the past. Even my blogs and web sites are read and viewed around the world which only the most prestigious publications enjoyed the privilege of getting a few decades ago.

The wing and the wave are the key technologies for the global economy and transaction systems that will emerge to unite us even in new forms of global government that we have still yet to develop.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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The New 80 Year Economic Cycle And The Ikeler4000

The last Great Depression occurred exactly 80 years ago. Wonder why the economy is so bad now? It is because the fundamental trends that drive our economy work on an eighty year cycle. You might think "How can time be a factor in our economy?" It is and it is inter-related with human demographics, life cycles, and technological innovations.

In the "Roaring Twenties," the economy was driven by automotive advancement, telephone technologies, and electricity being brought into every home. In the "Roaring Nineties," computers, the internet, and cell phone technologies drove the economy. Wonder what the next eighty years will be driven by? Automotive technologies, lead by the Ikeler4000, telephone technologies that converge cell phones, computers, and the internet. And biomedical technologies that bring human health to a new standard of living where a hundred years becomes the average lifespan.

Want a peak at the future? The last seven years have produced the Ikeler4000 flying car technology. The next seven years will be spent bringing that technology to one percent of the market. The seven years after that will be spent achieving a ten percent market penetration. Forty two years from 2002, in 2044, all cars will be flying cars! Or at least 99 percent of them. It will be the greatest revolution in transportation since the invention of the internal combustion engine!

You might say, "Wait a minute, these flying cars aren't even in dealerships yet." Well they will be and Innovation S-Curves predict their arrival and can even tell you when half of all cars will be flying cars, in 2023. Still scratching your head? Well, keep scratching and then hold onto your hat! The future we have all dreamed of is just around the corner!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/ http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

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Seeing The Unseen

In my years of business and practice management consulting, I came across the phrase, "In the land of the blind, the sighted man is king." I really got what it meant as I often times wondered why people don't see things or get problems that are right in front of their faces. My favorite experience in the land of the blind was one time in veterinary college. We were given the assignment of figuring out how to differentiate the third, fourth, and fifth cervical vertebrae in a cow. The amazing part is the anatomy specimen was right there in front of everyone and we had unlimited access to it. To my surprise, I was the only one out of 120 students to solve the problem!

The transverse processes of the vertebrae get broader as they go from third, to fourth, to fifth. Even the professor asked me how I figured it out. I said I just used "objective observation", a fancy way of saying I looked at it. There weren't any awards or prizes given out for solving this problem, but it did change the way my classmates looked at me! Their lens of perception had been changed.

My own lens of perception is already changed and has probably been different from the start. When I took flight instruction, I noticed my classmates were completely focused on how to fly the airplane. I was focused on how the airplane could be made better and actually have some utility, other than being able to fly to another airport on Sundays to get a hamburger at the other airport's restaurant.

Seeing the unseen is the core innovation strategy that has brought the Ikeler4000 to it's present state of development. Completion and future innovations will make it even change the world of tomorrow!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/ http://www.ikeler4000.com/