THIS WAS OUR 2018 TREND FORECAST: The Trends Research Institute forecast that truly autonomous vehicles and driverless taxis flooding the freeways, highways and side streets of a country near you is a geek-fed fantasy for another lifetime. However, we do forecast that autonomous vehicles specifically engineered for mining, trucking,...
In this edition of the Trends Journal we highlight several of the hot spots around the globe where the public is rising up against long established rulers while other nations are being targeted by foreign governments in the never-ending battle of regime change based on any pretext that media...
This South American nation on the Caribbean is currently mired in an economic collapse, due in part to economic failures compounded by economic sanctions. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but due to sanctions imposed on its energy sector and a drop in crude oil prices...
Nexium, Prilosec and other so-called “proton-pump inhibitor” anti-heartburn drugs, or PPIs, do more than tame that chili dog you had for lunch. Long-term use can cause cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and cancer in the upper digestive tract, according to a study from Washington University’s medical school. The study looked...
The more than 400 trillion plastic water and soda bottles that the world’s consumers buy each year are made of a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. Recycling isn’t a real solution to the rising tide of plastic waste: PET can only be recycled two to six times before...
Only a couple of weeks ago few outside of Venezuela knew of Juan Guaido, the 35-year-old politician, referred to by the media as “right wing,” who swore himself in as interim president of Venezuela, directly attacking the duly elected president Nicholas Maduro. Absent the mass media coverage is how...
Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in response to the 2008 financial crisis, when governments inflated the supply of fiat money on a massive scale to save the banking system. He feared this would result in currency devaluation, so he designed Bitcoin to be a form of money that could never...
Q&A with Jonathan Cho continued Investment in any industry increases when prices in it soar. Investment in the mining industry, for example, typically reaches its highest mark at the top of each bull market, and into the first part of the bear markets that follow. That said, the reasons...
When 72-year-old, family-controlled Fidelity, known for its disciplined and traditional management of retirement plans and mutual funds announced it was spending billions of dollars to ensure its competitive stance in a Blockchain world, it was apparent that the ledger technology that brought the world Bitcoin would have a future...
If you only follow the mainstream business news, you believe that every significant upward or downward move in equity markets was a direct cause and effect of a "breaking news" event that day. For example, when the Dow went haywire Tuesday falling more than 350 points after being up...
When the U.S. economy enters a recession, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to spark a recovery. Over the last three downturns, the Fed has pruned rates by about 5 percent to juice recession-prone economies. With overnight rates now 1.50 to 1.75 percent, the rate-cutting tool’s impact to generate...
The Federal Reserve expects the U.S. economy to grow in the 2-percent range for years into the future and many economists agree. The labor force is shrinking as Baby Boomers age, curtailing the number of people available to fill jobs; older people living on savings or fixed incomes also...
EUROPE Germany Begins to Gradually Reopen Economy Germany will begin restarting its economy this week, with Volkswagen returning some factories to production before the end of this month. Select kinds of small stores that had been deemed “non-essential” can open now. Schools will reopen 4 May for older students....
On 24 September 2019, when it was announced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated the impeachment process against President Donald Trump, Gerald Celente was asked by Daniela Cambone, Editor-in-Chief of Kitco News, how it would unfold. Celente said impeachment “could possibly happen, but it won’t mean anything because if they...
The U.S. Federal Reserve is already playing the stock market indirectly by accepting stocks as collateral from banks for short-term loans. A growing number of analysts expect the Fed to start buying stocks itself if the U.S. economy weakens more significantly. “If there were any dislocations, will...
When US equity markets began their February dive, the White House expressed "concern" about the downturn. Indeed, it should. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 45 percent since Donald Trump was elected in November 2016. The market, overvalued and overleveraged, prompted the Trends Research Institute to forecast that...
by Gregory Mannarino On 24 April, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin affirmed what I stated would happen over a month ago: “The U.S. government will be taking stakes in energy companies.” Mnuchin’s statement was backed by President Trump, who stated: “The energy companies need help.” Keep in mind these are...
In March, U.S. industrial activity slowed by 5.4 percent from February, the biggest month-to-month drop since the end of World War II. Retail sales shrank 8.2 percent from February, the greatest single monthly decline since 1992 when records began to be kept. Spending in restaurants and bars was off...
The current economic crisis is bringing the rock and the hard place closer together for millions of American households. In December 2019, weeks before the economic shutdown and tidal wave of unemployment, surveys found that 40 percent of U.S. households lacked the cash to manage a $400 emergency expense....
By Gregory Mannarino Just when it seems economic news can’t possibly get worse, well stocks go higher. The current market environment is completely and absolutely upside down. Despite every single piece of dismal economic news thrown at it, well stocks go higher. How can that be? The mechanism behind...
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