Last month, food prices worldwide rose the fastest at any time in the last 18 months, with sugar’s price climbing the most, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported last week.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
On the Nature side, floods, hurricanes, dried up rivers, lakes and streams, forest fires etc., are the way of much of the world, and they will affect everything from food prices to immigration, from civil wars to regional wars.
NEAR TERM STOCK MARKET MELT-DOWN? OR MELT-UP?
The specter of October stock market crashes looms large in the minds of many, and for good reason.
OIL PRICES JUMP AS MIDEAST WAR EXPANDS
The price of Brent crude oil, the benchmark for world oil prices, spiked more than 9 percent last week, trading above $78 a barrel after Israel bombed targets in Lebanon and Iran and Israel exchanged aerial attacks.
AS FORECAST: HUMANS ACTING AS DATA NODES FOR AI
There are more signs that AI is being developed via parasitic relationships with human “hosts.” It’s something we have long warned and forecast.
ISRAEL’S MURDER INC. KILLED OVER 118,000 IN GAZA… AND THEY KEEP THE KILLING SPREE GOING
A group of 99 American healthcare workers, who served inside Gaza, penned an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden that called for Washington to end its support of Israel’s brutal campaign inside the enclave—stating that the actual death toll is about three times the believed number.
NATO’S NEW HEAD VOWS MORE WAR IN UKRAINE
Mark Rutte, the new head of NATO, told reporters last week that his top priority as the alliance’s new leader is to support Ukraine's war effort against Russia.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Lower interest rates will be a boon to private equity firms, which tend to use debt to fund takeovers. The sector has booked $531 billion in deals so far this year, 38 percent more than by this time last year.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s equity markets have soared over the past two weeks in a way not seen in 16 years after the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) made cheap loans available to buy stocks.
TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
At the 2020 onset of the COVID War and the shift to remote work, we correctly had forecast in May of 2020 that office buildings’ market value would plunge.
The Israel War
TRUMP’S SON-IN-LAW KUSHNER’S DREAM COMES TRUE? ISRAEL ESCALATES ETHNIC CLEANSING
Israel ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza on Sunday and reports out of the country indicated that the IDF appears to be kicking off its “general’s plan,” which was cooked up by retired generals and involves the ethnic cleansing of the region.
GAZA DEATH TOLL
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor issued a dire report on the conditions in Gaza to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s genocide inside the enclave.
ISRAEL’S MURDER INC. KILLED OVER 118,000 IN GAZA… AND THEY KEEP THE KILLING SPREE GOING
A group of 99 American healthcare workers, who served inside Gaza, penned an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden that called for Washington to end its support of Israel’s brutal campaign inside the enclave—stating that the actual death toll is about three times the believed number.
AI
AI MAKES FOR HAPPIER EMPLOYEES, SURVEY FINDS
Roughly two-thirds of people using AI in their jobs say that the tools create "new opportunities for them to enjoy work," according to HP’s latest Work Relationship Survey, which quizzed 15,600 employees across several industries.
DEEPMIND AND BIONTECH ARE BUILDING A CADRE OF AI LAB ASSISTANTS
Google’s DeepMind AI lab and BioNTech, co-developer of a COVID vaccine, are each creating automated lab assistants to help researchers design experiments and predict their results.
MOTHBALLED NUCLEAR PLANT REOPENS TO MEET AI’S ENERGY DEMAND
Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant came to the end of its useful life in 2022. Energy company Holtec International bought it and planned to dismantle it.
Hi-Tech Science
BACTERIA RESTORE HISTORIC FRESCOES, SCOUR AWAY GRAFFITI
In 2008, Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was wondering what she should research as a subject for her doctoral dissertation when she happened on a study indicating that bacteria could be a useful tool in restoring paintings.
DRUG NOW IN TRIALS RESTORES LOST CONNECTIONS WITHIN THE BRAIN
Human trials are underway for SPG302, a once-daily pill from research-stage startup Spinogenix.
FARM ROBOTS 2.0
Aigen’s bot trundles along between rows of crops, swinging metal arms back and forth under its belly. The arms end in blades, moving at ground height to lop off weeds.