THE COMING DECLINE OF BIG SPENDING AND THE NEXT AMERICAN DREAM By Jack Lessinger Credit card in hand, we shop 'til we drop. Keeps the economy humming. Always...
The article below is a little old, but it does have a nice map of the expected Penturbia areas. You will have to go to the linked website to see it... Feel...
Got a message this morning from Jack Lessinger, author of "Schizomania" that he has a new website describing his theories. The website is not completely...
I've loaned my Penturbia book out to somebody. Would someone here want to compare the cities listed in this article to see if the ones with undervalued or...
Hi folks, We have a new member with an interest in Penturbia and the theory behind it. Somebody want to take a crack at explaining what it is and what drives...
Members new and old: Please share your thoughts or questions on Schizomania and Penturbia, that's what the list is for... As a side note, does anybody know...
A new member named Will sent the following info to me. Check it out - a new Lessinger article and website! *Will: to post to the whole list please send the...
For those of you that don't already know, there is a new website being put together by Jack Lessinger and myself. It is my understanding that the information...
I don't know if this would be possible or not, but perhaps the group could ask Jack to answer a question for us each month? We could all working on figuring...
Here are a couple possible questions we have so far. Send in your own questions, to the list or feel free to comment on these. 1. What slice of the American...
Our Schizomania list just keeps growing, but we sure have been a quiet bunch! There are 15 members now. So let's get the conversation rolling. I know there are...
Hello, This is the list moderator asking everybody to please help make this discussion list an interesting place by, well, discussing things. :o) Anything...
... Yes ... this has definitely been on my mind too. There are 2 ways to look at it. Negative: Oil prices will rise dramatically as we use the remaining 50%...
Thanks Henry, Sounds like you too have been thinking about how the end of cheap oil could effect the concept of Penturbia. I wonder if perhaps the name...
Just saw these two news bits back-to-back in an online newsletter I receive ( www.grist.org ). I thought it sounded like these big mainstream business are...
The little article below does a nice job of pointing out some of the facets of cultural change. It gave me some clues as to why the description of the...
What do you think of this article? Does it fit with the Penturbia trend? Or are the researchers just looking at it all from the wrong perspective? Greg **** ...
Hi Greg, Interesting article. It fits in with what I've been reading in the Real Estate arena: communities limiting or declaring a moratorium on big homes or...
I sometimes worry about extrapolating my limited "on the ground" observations of local changes in residence trends or signs of the LK to RV shift into true big...
Is this a clue to how the left and right will live happily ever after in the land of the Responsible Villager? (or at least until they take it to an excess and...
Still in the middle of reading a new book called America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz. It makes some predictions for the coming decades that dovetail in...
Just curious how the rest of you predict things turning out economically over the next ten years or so? According to Lessinger's books and recent website we...
Came across this quote in an article I was reading: "...I say that because something new is happening in the modern world. For a long time, we've been used to...
Anybody have an insight into how this fits into the Penturbia/Schizomania ideas? Is it the final fling of the Little Kings? Are the exurbs a path of least...
Jack Lessinger quoted in the MSN Real Estate News! Remember that the Schizomania website has been replaced with http://www.predicting2020.com/ It would really...
Good morning everyone, Our list has been awfully quiet lately... Please post any thoughts or questions or updates on the Schizomania or Penturbia theories that...
If each schizomania period brigs a high probability of an economic depression, then we are half way through the 1990-2020 period without the dreaded occurance....
Maybe the "crash" people expected was a sudden one instead of the silent crash of inflation via currency devaluation. With most families having to have two or...
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