Welcome to the third edition of Trends Monthly, our electronic newsletter bringing you stories on a range of trend lines and evolving issues we track at the Trends Research Institute. Coming on the heels of the Autumn 2014 Trends Journal, released just last week, we hope this latest expansion of our content and services, now delivered across multiple platforms, is...
“Unhappy, Worried, Pessimistic”
“The public has become convinced that they are at a new normal of a lower, poorer quality of life. The human cost is truly staggering.” That’s the finding of a national study by Rutger’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Five years into the “recovery,” seventy-percent of Americans believe the impact of the Great Recession is “permanent.” What makes...
Oil price drop: The good, bad and ugly
Is everybody happy? With crude oil prices down some 25 percent since June, filling up at the pump has become a bit less painful. And with winter coming on, lower fuels bill will bring welcome relief. The talk on the Street is that money not spent by Americans on fuel will fuel retail sales. However, with good jobs scarce, wages...
Hybrid nuclear energy gains traction
Russian engineers are embarking on a quest already under way at U.S. labs: The creation of a “hybrid” nuclear reactor combining fusion and fission to deliver cleaner, safer nuclear energy. Today’s nuclear reactors deliver energy through fission, the shattering of atoms, which creates radioactive waste. In fusion, atoms don’t fly apart but fuse together, releasing non-radioactive neutrons. But today’s fusion...
To our friends in the media:
Welcome to the third edition of Trends Monthly, an electronic newsletter for subscribers to Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal and Trendsresearch.com multimedia website, as well as the media. Coming on the heels of the Autumn 2014 Trends Journal, released last week, this edition of the newsletter delves into breaking-news events during the last few weeks to analyze their trajectory and significance....
Medical monopolies cost consumers
The health care industry calls it consolidation, but the rapid pace of hospital mergers and the frenzy of hospitals and large medical groups to buy up individual practices — turning independent physicians into employees — has the look and feel of monopolization. As with all monopolies, this one is reducing competition and raising costs to consumers. The trend in hospital...
Bitcoin, bucks and gold
What a difference a year makes. After peaking at $1,145.46 last November, a bitcoin now sells, as we go to press, for about $350. After gold peaked at $1,921.50 a troy ounce in September 2011, it’s trading in the low- to mid-$1,200 range. As for the dollar, after falling to 1.45 against the euro when gold was hitting new highs,...
Ebola scare spawns shady businesses
Ebola is coming, Ebola is coming! One person contracted it here, another there, soon it will be coming to a neighborhood near you. That’s the underlying fear and hysteria message most major cable and network news channels are pitching. And if it’s not stopped in its tracks, the talking heads and “experts” predict Ebola can become the next Black Plague. To...
Top Trends 2015 event
Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute will announce its Top Trends 2015 forecast Dec. 6 during a multimedia presentation in front of a live audience at its historic facility in Kingston, NY. The event, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., includes breakfast, lunch and an evening reception. The conference will showcase a series of unique and penetrating...
Want a new career? Try cyber security
In 2014, the number of high-profile data breaches will reach epic proportions. In fact, there were nearly 700 data breaches already reported this year. That’s a 27-plus percent increase over the same period last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. By some counts, shoppers are becoming accustomed to the headlines over credit card data thefts and showing less...