Seeing this 11 hours later, it devolved into a political fight. Sad. A simple, alternative hypothesis: With the opening of India, China, etc the world has got

Seeing this 11 hours later, it devolved into a political fight. Sad. A simple, alternative hypothesis: With the opening of India, China, etc the world has gotten a really, really large increase in work force -- but (not yet) an equal increase in capital for investment. Supply/demand -- the price for the increased resource (workers) goes down.