As investors seek ever-higher yields, risky companies are finding ready buyers for bonds carrying higher interest rates than U.S. treasury securities or blue-chip corporate debt can offer. Community Health Systems, the Gannett newspaper chain, and other companies whose credit is rated below investment grade have sold $139 billion in...
OK, so it’s only a two-seater and can barely top 40 mph. But there’s room for groceries and it carries a price tag of only $7,500. And, according to the manufacturer, making one will take only three days. The LSEV, as it’s called, is a child of the union...
...We disagree. As we have forecast, inflation will rise, and despite it moving higher, central banks and governments will do all they can to keep the cheap money flow going....
OK, so it’s only a two-seater and can barely top 40 mph. But there’s room for groceries and it carries a price tag of only $7,500. And, according to the manufacturer, making one will take only three days. The LSEV, as it’s called, is a child of the union...
Researchers at Australia's University of Newcastle have learned how to 3D-print cheap solar panels quickly. At a cost of about $10 per square meter (about a yard), the panels represent the fastest and, perhaps, cheapest form of renewable power so far. Using a water-based electronic ink containing semiconductor materials,...
North Americans are possibly the world’s best-nourished people — and our diet is killing us. By some estimates, more than a third of adults are overweight or outright obese. In 1970, 4.2 percent of children under age 12 were obese; by 2000, the proportion was 15.3 percent. Today, experts...
Back in June 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proposed to taper — and possibly end — the Fed’s unprecedented $85 billion a month purchases of mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries, stock markets tumbled and bond yields rose. The Dow Jones Industrials and the Standard & Poor’s 500 each...
Back in June 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proposed to taper — and possibly end — the Fed’s unprecedented $85 billion a month purchases of mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries, stock markets tumbled and bond yields rose. The Dow Jones Industrials and the Standard & Poor’s 500 each...
IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE GRIPS EQUITY MARKETS. Despite suffering through the worst economic shock since the Great Depression, the Dow and S&P ended the year by setting new records. The S&P 500 spiked 68 percent from its March lows, and the Dow closed the year at 30,606, hitting a record high....
Weekly Market Review Global equities were basically flat last week and this week. As they have for years, the mainstream media simplify complex economic factors by attributing their ups and downs to ongoing Brexit and Trade War dramas. Oil prices remain basically unchanged. Gold is losing some shine among...
Each time the Gross Domestic Product numbers are reported in a country near you, economists are “puzzled” why the GDP keeps rising but wages keep falling. It’s no surprise. It’s a decades old “Five-O” formula trend that conventional economists fail to understand and Banksters and multi-nationals benefit from. To...
STOCKS PLUNGE, STOCKS BOUNCE. The equity markets, the economy... it’s all about cheap money. With inflation spiking, money junkies are worried that interest rates will rise, as will the cost of monetary methadone injected into the system by central banksters. In the late April meeting of the U.S. Federal...
...has been sluggish, analysts say. The central bank has been buying government bonds since 2013 to prop up the economy and now owns debt larger than Japan’s GDP, the FT...
UKRAINE WORRIES SINK STOCKS. REALLY? It’s been the mainstream narrative. Equities across the globe have been sinking as concerns mounted over Russia’s pending war with Ukraine... a fear that has intensified as Russia moves troops into the Russian separatist eastern Ukraine. Why is this happening, what does it mean...
Urban storefronts left dark by the COVID-era shutdown are being taken over by online grocery retailers in their quest to deliver customers’ orders the same day or, in some cases, within an hour. Start-ups including Getir, Gopuff, Gorillas, Jokr, and now Doordash, are claiming the empty stores and turning...
Since World Wide Web use started becoming mainstream in the late 1990s, the Chinese government has sought to monitor and control how its citizens use it. In 2000, the government announced the institution of the Orwellian-named Golden Shield Project, more commonly referred to as the Great Firewall of China,...
In the 11 December 2018 Trends Journal article, “CENSORSHIP 2019,” we forecast the proliferation of internet censorship across the globe: “Freedom of speech? Freedom of Expression? Forget about it! From the United States to China, from New Zealand to Nepal, Censorship is a megatrend. For well over a year,...
Online registration is now available for "Find Your Future in Trends," a dynamic one-day conference hosted by Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute. This unique symposium is designed to show participants how to identify, evaluate and act on emerging trends that directly affect them. Held at the...
Nations around the world are closing down schools, despite the fact that of those who have been infected by the virus so far, about 10 percent are in their 20s, 1.2 percent are in their teens, and less than 1 percent are ages nine or less. Yet, as of...
CHEAP DEBT FUNDS NEW PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS. In 2020, almost 800 corporate buyouts valued at $559 billion were fueled by low-interest rates set and enforced by the world’s central banks. The number of deals surpasses the 1980’s record and is 20 percent more than in 2019, according to data...
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