Lunch Speaker(s) Series

Thu May 24, 2012 11:45 AM        –        Thu May 24, 2012 02:00 PM

Note: You will need your VBOT Membership # to attend this event. Any questions, please email info@immigrantbusinessbc.ca or call 778-871-0044 What will it be like to live in a world without economic growth? Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world’s governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, governments across the globe are digging us into a deeper hole, without addressing one key fact — that the real engine of economic growth has always been cheap and abundant fuel and resources. In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. With China and India sucking up the lion’s share of the world’s increasingly limited resources, the rest of us will be forced to make do with less. But is this all bad? Can less actually be more? Join The Vancouver Board of Trade for an exclusive engagement with Rubin as he shares his perspective on the new reality: our world is not only about to get smaller, our day-to-day lives are about to be a whole lot different.