Every generation has its nostalgia. And businesses find a way to profit from it while it lasts. But the need to look back intensifies when a culture is stressed, depressed, out of luck or otherwise discontent. Enter 2015 — when traditional retrograde movements make a bolder statement about what’s missing in today’s culture, and opportunities for creative types, entrepreneurs and...
Trendpost
While large-scale marketers and retailers will continue to capitalize on the need to look back by producing classic rock T-shirts and retro-looking radios for certain segments of the boomer-plus population, they’re missing enormous opportunity to push retrograde quality among younger generations. Mass-produced merchandise is the sugar coating; quality and genuineness, lovingly crafted from the heart, is the ticket.
Monopoly is the new normal
It’s a takeover. It’s the New World Order. And this is no conspiracy theory. Shrouded in secrecy, cloaked in misleading language and promoted as a trade pact, a conspiracy in the making will rob some two-thirds of the world’s citizens of their state’s rights and impose upon them a one-world economic and legal system. Spearheaded by the United States, President...
Trendpost
The TPP is the big one. But Takeover is a trend line years in the making; it’s now fully embedded in the social, economic and political spheres that rule our lives. It drills deeper than the massive consolidations we see in banking, media, health care, retail, etc., on broad national and international scales. Look at your own communities. Look at...
Ready to fight for peace?
America’s appetite for war keeps growing. From the White House, to Congress, from the Pentagon to defense secretaries past and present, old wars have been re-ignited, new ones started and the prospects for a perpetual state of war are being sold as the American way. The “liberal-progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, which flexes its protest muscles when war is...
Trendpost
Two major geopolitical trend lines will be drawn in 2015: Support more wars or fight for peace. What course will be taken? Which will prove successful? What countries will wage more war? Which countries will wage peace? Will fighting for peace be seen as heroic? Or will joining forces with politicians, the military and defense experts to fight more wars continue to be...
December 6 Conference Agenda
TOP TRENDS FOR 2015 CONFERENCEDecember 6, 2014TRENDS RESEARCH INSTITUTEKingston, New York Agenda 8 a.m. Mohican Building Breakfast and registration 9:15 a.m. Academy Building Welcome and Conference Overview Derek Osenenko, CEO 9:45 a.m. Academy Building 2015: The New Economy Tightens Its Grip – Enter the Price Wars era– The rise of banking power– Laws of capitalism fade– ...
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What happened to capitalism?
Albert Einstein called repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results “insanity.” In Japan, they call it “Abenomics,” the massive money-pumping monetary-easing plan Prime Minister Shinzō Abe promised in 2012 would spur economic growth. While it did spike the equity markets, the yen got battered and the public paid for it with higher costs, higher taxes, lower...
Final thoughts
“Think for yourself.” Anyone who has seriously attempted to enact this Trends Research Institute motto knows it’s not all that easy. In the wake of an election, we can’t help but be reminded of how “facts” are manipulated according to the agenda of those delivering them as they strive to orchestrate our thinking, emotions and behavior. On most issues, facts...