Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, laid out plans last month for a futuristic Gaza with hotels lining its beaches and skyscrapers, and he told an audience in Davos that there is no “Plan B” and he was banking on “catastrophic success,” which would include the complete disarmament of Hamas.
FINANCIALIZATION AS GOVERNANCE
This is the current operating system of the USA- “Financialization as governance.” AND AN ENTIRELY NEW TOKENIZED SYSTEM IS ABOUT TO BE THRUST UPON US… AND YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED FOR IT.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Today gold prices spiked $173, selling at $5,180 per ounce and silver went up $8.31 selling at $112.09 per ounce.
GLOBAL DEBT, THE HUMAN BUBBLE AND THE POLICE-STATE PIVOT
Central banks engineer dependency on their debt-based fiat system. FULL-STOP.
SPECIAL REPORT: GOLD, SILVER SET PRICE RECORDS
As Trends Journal subscribers will know, we called the bottom of gold in September 2023 when it was selling at $1,850 per ounce.
HUMAN SET-ASIDES
Will politicians and those in jurisprudence act rationally to compensate and protect people from ongoing rampant exploitation by the AI industry?
OXFAM: BILLIONAIRE WEALTH REACHES HIGHEST PEAK EVER IN 2025, AS FORTUNES INCREASE BY OVER 16 PERCENT IN 2025
Oxfam released a report last week that showed billionaire wealth increased by over 16 percent last year to a record $18.3 trillion combined, all while just about half of the population on earth lives in poverty.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Coterra Energy and Devon Energy have agreed to merge into one company that will be a leading player in the U.S. shale oil and gas industry and a top producer in the shale-rich Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico.
SPOTLIGHT: THE LUXURY INDUSTRY DECLINES FURTHER
The share price of LVMH, the luxury industry’s largest and richest conglomerate, dropped 7.9 percent on 27 January after reporting a 3-percent sales decline in its Dior and flagship Louis Vuitton brands.
SWISS FRANC SURGES ON DOLLAR’S WEAKNESS
Last week, the Swiss franc’s value climbed to 0.77 against the dollar after gaining more than 17 percent since the beginning of 2025.
U.S. Economy
GM FORECASTS $2-BILLION JUMP IN PROFITS THIS YEAR
Thanks to the popularity of its high-profit pickup trucks and full-size SUVs, General Motors projects its 2026 profit will rise as much as $2 billion, year on year.
CITI WILL TRAIN 175,000 WORKERS TO ‘REINVENT THEMSELVES’ WITH AI
Citi, a $205-billion U.S. megabank, will require 175,000 workers to learn to use artificial intelligence (AI), CEO Jane Fraser said in an interview with Fortune magazine.
U.S APARTMENT RENTS FELL TO FOUR-YEAR LOW IN JANUARY
Last month, the median monthly rent for a U.S. apartment was $1,353, down 1.4 percent year on year, Apartment List reported, and lower by 6.2 percent since they peaked in summer 2022.
Trends in AI
IN NEW FUNDING ROUND, OPENAI WANTS ANOTHER $40 BILLION FROM SUPPLIERS
OpenAI is back hunting for capital, looking for another $100 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $750 billion.
AI AS A HEATING UTILITY
AI data centers are vast campuses with tens or hundreds of thousands of chips and servers generating heat that has to be drained off. Instead of venting it, data center operators are starting to sell it.
ANTHROPIC CEO WARNS AGAINST AI WHILE HIS COMPANY ADVANCES THE TECH
In a 38-page essay, CEO Dario Amodei of AI contender Anthropic warns that AI heightens the risk of bioterrorism, dictatorships, labor market turmoil, and the greater concentration of wealth.
Hi-Tech Science
NEW METHOD DESTROYS “FOREVER” CHEMICALS FASTER AND EASIER
PFAS, a family of chemicals used since the 1940s to make things resistant to grease, stains, and water, have become known as “forever chemicals.”
BUILDING MATERIAL DRAWS ITS STRENGTH FROM CARBON DIOXIDE
A new building material from engineers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute draws its strength from proprietary enzymes that turns carbon dioxide gas into particles of solid minerals.
CURING ARTHRITIS BY REGROWING CARTILAGE
The gradual wearing away of cartilage, the tough cushion of tissue that separates the bones in joints, is the chief cause of osteoarthritis, a painful and debilitating condition affecting more than 600 million people worldwide and as many as 20 percent of American adults, according to the World Health Organization.