In many parts of the world, but especially the U.S. and Europe, populations are demographically skewing older, at a faster rate than many anticipated.
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TOP TREND 2023: MARKET MELTDOWN, ECONOMIC CALAMITY
As we had forecast in December, if there was no Santa Claus rally, U.S. equity markets will dive in 2023 to celebrate a very Unhappy New Year.
TOP TREND 2023: WWIII
Two days before Russia launched its military campaign against Ukraine, as the 22 February Trends Journal cover illustrated, WWIII had begun.
THE GREAT RESET AND THE POST-CAPITALIST REVOLUTION
During the past several years, there has been a plethora of articles, blog commentaries and books written with warnings about the Great Reset and the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) founding chairman Klaus Schwab.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
U.S. biotech giant Amgen has bought Horizon Therapeutics, a maker of drugs that treat rare autoimmune and inflammatory illnesses, for $28.3 billion, Amgen’s priciest purchase to date.
SPOTLIGHT: INTEREST RATES RISING AROUND THE WORLD
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key federal funds interest rate by a half-point last week, meeting our prediction and analysts’ expectations and lifting the rate to between 4.25 and 4.5 percent, its highest since December 2007.
SPOTLIGHT ON CHINA
In November, retail sales in China fell 5.9 percent year over year as anti-COVID lockdowns persisted, industrial production shrank when orders from foreign buyers dwindled, and business investment slowed.
TURKEY: ERDOGAN’S “NEW ECONOMIC MODEL” WORKS – SORT OF
As inflation crashed Turkey’s economy over the past year and shredded the value of its lira currency, president Recep Erdogan insisted the country was pioneering a “new economic model” in which rock-bottom interest rates and a near-worthless currency would create an economic boom driven by exports.