“As I see it, everything begins and ends with the inner spirit, the sanctum where courage, dignity, respect, integrity and passion reside,” wrote Gerald Celente in the Summer 2014 Trends Journal. His article, “Blame ‘I Don’t Care,’” examined how a lack of pride in self and country affects an individual’s health and spirit. A new and growing body of research...

The Trends Research Institute has been forecasting it for a long time: As people live longer and financial or life circumstances obliterate traditional thinking about retirement, the aging process will more and more include dimensions of self-exploration, self-expression and community mindedness. Here’s another example: Six individuals over 60 have recently received The Purpose Prize, honoring their passion, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit...

Next year can bring a new generation of services and technologies designed to protect consumers. Moreover, these new services will be of particular interest to the financial industry. While consumers may have grown numb to news about massive data breaches, the cost of protecting banking industries’ interests by issuing new cards, alerting consumers to the breaches and settling fraud claims...

Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute will publish a special electronic edition of the Trends Journal for subscribers this December, covering the Top Trends for 2015. This edition will publish Tuesday, Dec. 9, three days after the institute unveils its forecast in front of a live audience at its Kingston, N.Y., facilities. Celente said the special Trends...

The ease in which political leaders can take the country to war and then argue along party lines — only about what degrees of death and destruction should be inflicted — is a longstanding trend line of the Trends Research Institute. In the fall Trends Journal, we wrote:“What has been conspicuously absent from the march to war championed by politicians,...

Global trends forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute traditionally have released their yearly Top Trends Forecasts in a December press release, followed by extensive analysis in the winter edition of the quarterly Trends Journal. This year is different. While this winter’s edition of the Trends Journal will be dedicated to a thorough examination of the 2015 trend lines...

Gun sales in the United States are declining, and the Trends Research Institute is expecting that trend line to continue. During the first half of 2014, reported sales from gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. saw healthy double-digit declines. Gun sales spike in the aftermath of high-profile violent news, such as the Sandy Hook Elementary...

The National Golf Foundation is acknowledging what the Trends Research Institute has been tracking and forecasting for some time: The once-beloved pastime of spending hours on the golf course, often cracking deals with business partners or making headway with the boss for that next promotion, is on a sharp decline. In fact, the foundation reported about 400,000 players vacated the...

There is nothing equitable about the federal forfeiture program called “equitable sharing.” It allows the feds, in collusion with local and state law enforcement, to seize property suspected of being linked to crime. Yet 81 percent of those who have had their property taken have never been charged, much less tried. When state or local police agencies seize money or...

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