At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Visa gave athletes rings for their fingers that would let them buy something just by waving a hand at it. Now the company is making the technology smaller and, perhaps someday, ubiquitous. Visa’s contactless credit card has been reduced to the size of a small sticker you can wear on...
Author: Gerald Celente
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Catch Celente’s weekly show
Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live online each Wednesday at 11 a.m. EST. Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen 24/7 by...
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Iran War coming. World War III? Market crash?
Iran War coming. World War III? Market crash? Get ready for the next war. It may be the war to end all wars… and much of civilization. The Trends Research Institute has identified a series of critical geopolitical events, many barely hitting the mainstream media. Among the most powerful under-reported trend lines now forming is...
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Latest Trends Journal publishes
The USA has become the DSA, the Divided States of America. Even the Middle East is dividing in unexpected ways. Qatar was just banned from the Arab League club. Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Russia … explosive land mines are being laid across the globe. Amid all the turbulence and uncertainty, the world has not...
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A Globalnomic® view of the world
Tensions continue to heat up between the US and North Korea. The new US administration’s strengthening of alliances with Middle East monarchies and Israel has expanded war fronts. The trigger points for World War III grow. Even as war drums beat louder, the economic struggles of many countries are stirring civil unrest. Dissatisfaction with the...
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Globalnomic® mid-year report
With President Donald Trump bearing down on completing his first six turbulent months in office, which have rattled the halls of Congress and governments worldwide, this in-depth feature with global forecaster Gerald Celente provides the perspective you need to understand how these events are forming future trends. PROTECTIONISM, POPULISM, PROMISES, PITFALLS What can we expect...
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Trend-tracking lesson
“When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies… that crosses… many lines.” Those were President Donald Trump’s words following news of a chemical attack on Syrian citizens on April 4 — an incident the media claim was orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. At least 86 people, including 30 children, died in the attacks. Mainstream...
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Trendpost
The fact-ignorant, saber-rattling media is, of course, nothing new. In 2013, when the scope of the war in Syria was expanding dramatically and the threat of chemical weapons became more serious, the Trends Research Institute analyzed the unfolding crisis by outlining the “four steps to war:” “Taking the nation to war requires winning popular support,...
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Land mines ahead?
Tracking trends is an understanding of where we are and how we got here to forecast where we’re going. It may sound simple, but in a society dumbed down by a daily diet of mainstream-media junk news, the past is ancient history. What is recalled is mostly distorted to fit agendas. Go back to The...
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TREND FORECAST
Our 2017 US geoeconomic forecast is for more of the same — with increasing probabilities of much worse. For example, the potential for economic panic will dramatically increase should war tensions in the Middle East and with North Korea escalate, or major debt-laden nations such as Japan, Italy, China, etc., falter, and/or social unrest continues...