This is my 34th year of forecasting trends. For the past dozen or so, when analyzing the trends that would shape much of the year ahead, I would say, “How sad, the future looks less promising than the past.” Unfortunately, I’ve been right. Each year ends worse than the year before....
Buy locally grown and made products. Keep the money in your community! If you’re a community-minded entrepreneur, put a team together and make a grassroots investment in this emerging trend, particularly if no grocery store serves the community. Encourage community and local youth groups to use urban farming as...
Despite President Obama’s praise for Bernanke’s “ … bold action and out-of-the-box thinking,” the Fed chairman boasts a long losing streak of making wrong economic forecasts and misreading the economic tea leaves. In a CNBC interview, July 29, 2005, the Harvard-graduated, former Princeton Professor of Economics, Fed chairman was...
Interest Rate Recovery: Home ownership in the U.S. is back where it was two decades ago. How low can it go? As go interest rates, so goes the U.S. real estate market. If the 30-year fixed mortgage rate hits 5 percent, the real estate market will dive. From Canada...
There is more to trends than forecasting them to find business and investment opportunities. For me, I do my best to live them. One of the biggest, most important lifestyle trends I learned in my early days of forecasting is Whole Health Healing. My ex-wife had long been suffering from ulcerative...
As this edition of the Trends Journal publishes, pro-Russian separatists are holding fort in Ukrainian communities along the eastern border, as Kiev threatens to intervene. It’s a battle Ukraine cannot win. Washington’s grand scheme to envelope all of Ukraine into EU and NATO embrace backfired because Russian and Russian-speaking...
When we launched a series of improvements to our Trends Journal last summer, we promised you we would hold ourselves accountable for the forecasts we made and the quality and accuracy of our analyses. Here’s a look back at what we forecast a year ago and how we did....
Outsourcing for boomers: The extended work force is here to stay. Freelancing is expected to grow sharply in the immediate years ahead. Opportunities are ripe for boomers, including writers, artists, information technology experts, market analysts, educators and financial experts. More and more boomers will enter this arena. Community causes:...
This is my 34th year of forecasting trends. For the past dozen or so, when analyzing the trends that would shape much of the year ahead, I would say, “How sad, the future looks less promising than the past.” Unfortunately, I’ve been right. Each year ends worse than the year before....
TRENDS EYE VIEW BROADWAY ENDS MASK RULE, ACTORS FREAK OUT June 28, 2022 Broadway's industry trade association announced last week that it will put an end to...
Click image to download latest issue. Geopolitical Roundup No Content Available Hi-Tech Science No Content Available Trends-Eye View BROADWAY ENDS MASK RULE, ACTORS FREAK OUT CELENTE IN...
Imagine growing up in a culture of fear, a culture in which your every action and every written word are recorded, tracked and stored. Imagine growing up in a world where, while going about your daily routines, you encounter heavily armed military troops peering through visors atop armored vehicles...
Can Direct Democracy become a reality, or is the Swiss model unique and the Greek vote a one-off? On issues ranging from federal to local — foreign entanglements, foreign aid, trade agreements, immigration, taxes (federal, state, school, value-added, etc.), health care reform, abortion, drug decriminalization, capital punishment, right to...
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...
It’s grander than Presidential Reality Show champion Donald Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again.” It’s bigger than France’s presidential primary victor, François Fillon, who promises to restore “respect,” “pride” and “French values.” It’s bigger than the Austrian, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch, German, British, etc., political movements whose foundations are...
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...
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,...
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...
These decentralized, unalterable records of transactions are easier to understand when you see one in use by something like the Brooklyn Microgrid. Some microgrid members have solar electricity panels on their roofs; some don’t. A household without panels can buy excess power generated by panels from households that have...
Whether you like it, understand it or trust it, blockchain technology already has laid the blueprint for a new economy. And that’s just the beginning. Over the next decade, it will alter how you vote, protect personal data, make healthcare decisions, manage investments, make purchases large and small, operate...
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