Since June, when the Shanghai Index began its 40-percent collapse, equity markets worldwide have been bashed and battered. Concurrently, raw-material prices have tumbled to decade lows, developing world currencies have plunged to …

Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of the greatest bankruptcy in American history – the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was followed by the biggest drop in stock prices since the Great …

Ralph Nader will be among the noted speakers and performers who will join global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute for the launch of Occupy Peace during a rally here at noon on …

It’s been 14 years since 9/11, the day President George W. Bush launched the War on Terror and set the nation on a constant war footing with no …

The current wave of migrants flooding into Europe is the worst since World War II. The Trends Research Institute forecasts that migrant crisis will dramatically escalate. Both the cause and effects are trend lines leading to a humanitarian calamity, social unrest and geopolitical conflict that will destabilize …

History is repeating itself. While the times are different and the names have changed, the underlying circumstances and basic fundamentals remain the same. The Crash of ’29, The Great Depression, plunging commodity prices, currency wars, trade wars, world war. Now, four score and six years later: The Panic of ’08, The Great Recession, plunging commodity prices, …

The Expo Milano 2015, costing a reported 12.5 billion euros and plagued by charges of corruption and waste… is a waste. Besides the money spent on highways, metro and infrastructure improvements, the expo, which we visited several weeks …

Following China’s yuan devaluation, headlines around the world screamed “surprise.” China’s Global Times wrote, “The People’s Bank of China surprisingly devalued the Chinese yuan by nearly 2 percent against the US dollar on Tuesday.” “FOREX-Yuan in biggest fall since 1994 after surprise devaluation,” Reuters. “Dow Jones Industrial Average Plunges 200 Points After China's Surprise Yuan Devaluation,” International Business Times. “Surprise?” Not to the Trends Research Institute. On Friday, July 24, China’s State Council telegraphed the …

The Bloomberg Commodity Index is at a 13-year low. Last month, the S&P GSCI total Return index, which tracks a basket of commodities, fell 14 percent. That was its worst decline since November 2008. Twenty-three of the 24 index components tracked, registered losses for July. The word on Wall Street is that commodity prices are …