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SPOTLIGHT: “BIGS” GETTING BIGGER
As we have noted since the Central Banksters started to rapidly raise interest rates, the decade’s long merger and acquisition spree is over. However, the “Bigs” will still get bigger, as they buy out overleveraged companies that can’t afford to borrow at high rates to refinance while, at the same time, recessionary pressures erode their profitability.
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s economic crisis has emboldened reformers who argue for structural change to the country’s economy, challenging other officials who contend that stimulus spending will put China’s productivity back on track, Reuters reported.
SPOTLIGHT, TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
About 24 percent of office space in 18 major Chinese cities sat empty in June, compared to 18.2 percent in the U.S., real estate services firm CBRE reported. In that month, the national value of office rents fell 7 percent below that of 2019.
BANK OF JAPAN HOLDS INTEREST RATE STEADY
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) did not change its interest rate when the governing committee met on 22 September, citing “extremely high uncertainties” about its own and the world’s economic future.
CANADA’S INFLATION RATE SPIKES IN AUGUST
Canada’s annual Inflation rate jumped to 4 percent in August from 3.3 percent in July, largely due to a 0.8-percent rise in the price of petroleum fuels, Statistics Canada reported. The rate was the highest since April.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Joining sensory systems with AI is the cutting edge of where more sophisticated technology is heading.
FROM FANTASY AND INTRIGUE TO REALITY: LEADING AUTHORS VS AI
It’s exactly what The Trends Journal explained and forecast to readers well before most people knew what ChatGPT was: the company behind it had hijacked human creative content en masse, and figured out a way to monetize it.
PUBLIC BLOCKCHAINS VS. THE “GOVCORP” SYSTEM
This past week multiple governments including the U.S. and the U.K. actually pressured corporations like Rumble and TikTok to deplatform political commentator Russell Brand.
COMPUTER SUSSES OUT THREE NEW ANTI-AGING COMPOUNDS
Elderly cells in our bodies stop functioning but live on, after a fashion, causing inflammation and emitting waste and other damaging chemicals into the bloodstream.









