“I don’t want to grow up, I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid,” was the slogan in the 1980s for the toy-store giant. These days, millennials are singing that song in millennial preschool groups. That’s right. Millennials are attending preschool now. Preschool Mastermind in Brooklyn, NY, promises arts and crafts, a buddy system, snack time, show and tell and, of course,...
Australian power shift
Across Australia, installing solar panels backed by a home battery pack now yields electricity at a lower price than the conventional grid, and will continue to even if grid prices stay flat, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The company forecasts that, by 2040, half of the country’s electricity will be generated where it’s used. Bloomberg calls...
Coal prices tank
Coal prices have fallen 8 percent to as much as 20 percent this year, a victim of low-cost US natural gas, falling demand from formerly heavy users such as China, and the shift to renewable energy sparked by falling hardware prices. At the same time, coal-burning utility plants in the US had stockpiled a whopping 168 million tons as of...
Steady yields from yieldcos
In the oil patch, master limited partnerships, or MLPs, were the investment vehicle that brought sophisticated investors into the petroleum business and made them billions. Now, the new path to energy wealth is being blazed by a structure called the “yieldco.” The MLP was a sort of mutual fund for oil and gas deals: Well-heeled investors pooled their money, the...
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During the last year, the Trends Research Institute has introduced new platforms to serve you better – bringing our forecasts to you with greater immediacy and accuracy. Trends This Week, a column by Gerald Celente each Wednesday, was launched this summer to keep you on top and ahead of the trends that directly influence your bottom line. If you haven’t...
Profit from peace
Before Gerald Celente and the Trends Research Institute formally launch the Occupy Peace initiative at a rally September 20 in Kingston, NY, the institute will be hosting a very special conference, September 17-19, dedicated to living wisely and productively in a poisoned, violent world. The conference, “Peace and Prosperity: New Trend Lines To Profit,” is open to subscribers at a...
Market Mayhem: Don’t blame China, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
By Gerald CelentePublisher, Trends Journal KINGSTON, NY, 26 August 2015 — Read the headlines. Listen to business-news broadcasts. Across the western world, financial fingers are pointing to China as the culprit for both sparking the global equity-market meltdown — and keeping it going. The first shot across the Dow — when it was trading some 2,000 points above Tuesday’s close — was blamed on the People’s...
Conference video will help you prepare
The six-hour “Find Your Future In Trends” video is packed with the information you need to prepare for the dramatic shifts ahead on economic, business, geo-political and cultural fronts. Global forecaster Gerald Celente is joined by economist and author Nomi Prins and experts in aging, pop culture and other areas who provide detailed road maps to help you survive and...
Now, more than ever
The Trends Research Institute has repeatedly alerted you to a series of emerging trend lines that clearly signal the pending collapse of global equity markets. When China announced it was devaluing its currency this week, the mainstream media responded with “shock” and “amazement.” But Trends Journal and Trendsresearch.com subscribers were well prepared (see today’s Trends This Week column at THIS...
Occupy Peace takes off
Visit Occupypeace.us. NOW. Bring home the troops, and bring back the jobs. Support Gerald Celente’s and his Trends Research Institute’s emerging peace movement with teeth. In Celente’s words: “This movement is not designed to raise good vibes about peace, it is being shaped as a movement with teeth, vision and guts to demand peace in all circumstances except for imminent,...