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Respect Mr. Whalen's post

Submitted May 4, 2004 - 10:54 pm by Benjamin Melançon
Mr. Green:

Whalen has articles published in all kinds of places that probably pay him and isn't posting broker ads here.  I appreciated some of the info you provided in your comment, but I think you would have been better served responding to Whalen's post, quoted market analysis included, as an honest attempt to give useful information.

Your dirisive attitude toward the post led you, I believe, into at least one glaring error: "China + India = only 35% of the population? I think it is closer to 60%"

I don't feel there's much excuse for not looking up basic facts when we're on the Internet anyway, but I'm not even going to bother here.  China I keep hearing has a bit more than a billion people and India also about a billion.  The last really big round number for the world population that everyone talked about as we reached it was 6 billion.  Dropping the billions for easier math, 1 + 1 = 2, 2/6 = 1/3 = about 33%.

I would guess 35% is a very accurate figure for the combined populations of India and China relative to the world population.

Sorry to be so public, but I wanted to clear that matter of fact up before neocons try to accuse us of not being in touch with the world's realities.

Peace,
ben melançon

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