Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials all have had their stresses and challenges, but none had to come of age during an unprecedented global shutdown. In Europe, the new generation born just before and after the year 2000 is now being referred to in some circles as “Generation Lockdown.” While it’s well documented that over 40 percent of all COVID-19...
LONELINESS LOCKDOWN BLUES
As we have noted from the outset of the COVID War, the politicians, with their rules and regulations, have sucked the joy out of life. And the people are feeling it. Human beings are hard-wired through evolution to work in groups and socialize. Yet, in America, a loneliness trend has been growing recently. As reported by Erin Carson on c/net,...
MORE SELLING OF COVID FEAR: TINY NUMBERS, BIG DEAL
It was headline news last week. Front pages in newspapers and top Breaking News on TV: COVID-19 returned home to China. Coronavirus: Beijing spike continues with 36 new cases Another 36 cases were also recorded on Saturday. The city had previously seen no new cases in more than 50 days. – BBC, 15 June China Reports 28 New Coronavirus Cases...
SCARING THE YOUNG, KILLING THE OLD
Little children, much too young to think for themselves, are now growing up with fear, anxiety and mistrust of others as part of the New ABnormal. What will their lives be like, going to school, socially distanced from classmates, and interacting in a fear-based culture? And those in charge are instilling fear among the young despite the odds of their...
MASKED BY MASKS
For those who remember the TV series “The Lone Ranger,” each episode ended with people saved by the heroic figure to utter, “Who was that masked man?” There was a reason the Lone Ranger was always virtually “alone”: masks are mostly associated with not wanting to be recognized for who one really is… a bank robber’s favorite. What else is...
FACE MASKS: DANGERS & THE DEMENTED
As we have been reporting continuously in the Trends Journal for months, there are no strong epidemiological studies or scientific evidence concluding that healthy people wearing face masks will significantly prevent the spread of the virus. And the mainstream media, such as CNN, which began spreading the COVID Fear and Hysteria from the onset, even admitted (though buried deep in...
U.S. MARKETS
As we have made abundantly clear in the Trends Journal with copious facts and figures, the rise in the equity markets on Wall Street have no correlation to the dire economic conditions that have hit Main Street. We have been reporting since last year, when the Federal Reserve pumped some $7 trillion into the repo markets so trading houses could...
U.S. DOLLAR TO FADE AWAY
by Gregory Mannarino, www.TradersChoice.net The world is well on its way to a new paradigm: no dollars. For years, many, including myself, have explained to their audiences that a new 100 percent digital system is going to be the future of transactions. Already, just go to the website of the Federal Reserve. There exists on Earth only $1.7 trillion of...
FORGET THE FACTS: MAKE UP RULES
As we have continued to report, name the city, state, or nation – there are new rulebooks of Pandemic Behavior being made up as we go along by the rulers-in-charge. Manila, Philippines: Restaurants are allowed to reopen – but only at 30 percent capacity. Restaurant owners must make sure all employees wear masks and have their temperature taken. Making up...
COVID DISCRIMINATION
According to a report by the CDC, African-Americans and Latinos have been dying from COVID-19 at significantly higher rates. While blacks comprise just 13.4 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 22 percent of overall infections. Latinos comprise 18.3 percent of the total population, yet they represent 33 percent of infections. White Americans make up 76.5 percent of the population,...