You last point there, Larry, touches on something I mentioned in an earlier post. I don't know if such figures have been published in other countries, but here in Canada the population in the 55-64 age group outnumbered that of the 15-24 group for the first time in history. And it's a widening gap, evidenced by governments pushing back retirement age qualification, and so on.

So it would seem to me that arranger manufacturers would be pleased by such population changes.

This, of course, is pure conjecture as much as any other theory put forth so far.