A growing number of women in the US are choosing to give birth outside of hospital walls. The trend, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), saw twice as many women opting for midwife assisted home births or birthing center deliveries in 2012 as in 2004. Though the total number is still small-hovering around 2 percent of total...
New approaches to obesity needed
In the summer edition of the Trends Journal, we reported: “The obesity epidemic has prematurely aged at least a third of our population by decades.” As part of a larger package of stories examining why too many Americans seem to show little self respect, as evidenced in how they dress, interact with others and take care of their health, we ...
Generic drug prices spiral up
Because they can, the majority of manufacturers of generic drugs have raised their wholesale prices over the last year – in some cases to soaring heights. Some common, long-term generics have gone from pennies to dollars per pill. Even for the insured, rising co-payments following in the wake of price increases of five hundred percent and more, are taking a huge bite...
Depressed shoppers depress prices
It’s a Price War. And it’s being waged in a country near you. From commodity exchanges to retail sales, prices are plummeting – and the fight is on to sell products at whatever price the market will bear. While not all prices will deflate, the more cash-strapped consumers cut back on spending, the deeper the discounts will be. On the retail...
Find a niche; go cover it
Here’s what we see for community news coverage in 2015: “As print-driven journalism fades, robust coverage of communities and the issues that drive life in those areas suffers. General news coverage provided by dominant media outlets fades. And that encourages upstart media outlets to fill the coverage gaps…” The big chains – Gannett, News Corp., Tribune, Scripps-Howard, etc. – have...
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KINGSTON, N.Y. (Dec. 9, 2014) – Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute today released a special digital edition of the Trends Journal dedicated to the institute’s forecast of the Top Trends for 2015. Featuring analyses by Celente, economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, business journalist Nomi Prins, science writer Bennett Davis and other experts, the special edition explores...
We’ve lost control
For 35 years, I have been analyzing socioeconomic and geopolitical events and forecasting their impact on our lives. I have noted countless times how current events form future trends. The history of how we got here and the knowledge of where we are inevitably reveals the face of the future. But as history unfolds it sometimes becomes blurred by partisan...
The grand manipulation
The newest trend is most dangerous. This new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury. The Federal Reserve reduced real interest rates on US government debt obligations first to zero and then pushed interest rates into negative territory. Today the government charges you for the privilege of purchasing its bonds. People...
Trendpost
What we are experiencing is not a repeat of the past. The ability or, rather, the audacity of the US government to manipulate the major financial markets is new. Can this new trend continue? Governments and economists take their hats off to free markets. Yet, the markets are rigged, not free. How long can stocks stay up in a lackluster...