Stockholm 26th September 2014 Dear Mr Celeste, My name is Per Lundgren. I have partaken a thorough research of Article 1, Section 8 (Powers of Congress) of the American constitution. I now have finished the manuscript for a stand-alone book (normal sized text of about 155 A4 pages) about how the American people already in the 1700s, in fact, was...
What To Do While You’re Here … And Nearby
Gerald Celente and the Trends Research Institute want to welcome our participants to the institute’s fall conference, History Before It Happens In Your Life (Oct. 17-19). In the days and weeks ahead, we’ll be sending you information to help you maximize the value and experience of spending time with us and the Hudson Valley during one of the most beautiful...
From the editor
Many of the world’s problems seem intractable. The concentration of power in the hands of an untrustworthy few; corruption in government and industry; the lack of trust and the decline of moral values: it seems as if nothing short of revolution can bring about change to these systemic ills. In the meantime, as several articles in this issue of Trends...
Policing for profit
In the September Trends Monthly we wondered how many of the 12 million arrests made and the uncountable citations issued by police forces every year were “designed to swell municipal coffers and police department budgets.” In the aftermath of the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, data have been released that shows the problem is even greater than...
Osteopaths changing the face of medicine
This year, 22 percent of medical-school graduates will have done their training in a college of osteopathic medicine and have the right to put the initials DO, for doctor of osteopathic medicine, after their names. By 2020, about 100,000 DOs will be in practice, making up more than 10 percent of physicians in the United States. In most respects, the...
Consumers can force meaningful changes
People who use Johnson’s Baby Shampoo and other products in their baby line may have noticed the phrase “Improved Formula” on the bottle. Those two words represent a victory for consumers who have made their wishes known in a way that manufacturers understand, a challenge to their bottom line. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) was created in 1978 to, among...
‘Shop local’ has good momentum building
The holiday shopping season will be strong for community-based mom-and-pop operations that know their customers, customize products and services to community tastes and offer personalized interaction with consumers. As we have been tracking for several years, shopping malls are on a sharp decline. The big-box stores that anchor those malls, unless they’re upscale retailers in high-income suburban areas, are closing,...
Trust overall is in a sharp decline
Since 1972, as part of its General Social Survey, the National Opinion Research Center has been asking a sampling of American adults three questions relating to trust in their fellow man: • Generally speaking, would you say most people can be trusted, or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people? • Would you say that most of...
Boomer Renaissance alive
This late-summer headline in Forbes, “Market Basket: The Return of Boomer Activism,” spoke volumes about the Boomer Renaissance trend we have been tracking. The boomer-dominated workforce of Market Basket, a New England-based chain of grocery stores, roared in collective defiance as the company’s board of directors removed the chain’s employee-friendly president as a means to improve financial performance by presumably...