If you invested in the Chinese markets, or for that fact the entire Emerging Market Index, now down 20 percent this year, you’re stuck in bear territory. If you put your money in the American markets, you’re riding on top of what is now the longest bull run in U.S. stock history. What’s next? On the tenth anniversary of the...

Since my article in the August Trends Journal, crypto assets dropped considerably, before correcting up for a few weeks. They’ve since begun another decline, leaving many to wonder how much downside the market has left. Some altcoins are already down over 90 percent since their highs earlier this year, and with Bitcoin still holding above the $6,000 region, some hope...

The most influential trend affecting us today, exponentially increasing computer intelligence enveloping every aspect of our lives, is opening up new, exciting opportunities and insights. At the same time it’s causing enormous stress, disorder, and anxiety. As the Internet continues to bring people around the world closer together at increasing speeds and provides a virtual library of world knowledge at...

In a world fraught with intractable social ills and brittle global stability, Social Entrepreneurism (SE) is the practice of starting a business to make money, while simultaneously addressing social problems. It is a trend that’s heating up and for those OnTrendpreneurs™ — our term for innovative thinkers who are more than entrepreneurs, they find unique, profitable opportunities by staying on...

You can’t say that nuclear power is back, because it never really went away. It’s just been quiet, refining new designs and technologies. Now it’s ready to re-introduce itself. Right now, China is building 30 new nuclear power plants. Russia’s building 10 and Qatar four. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has plans to put up 16. Most of these plants, like Westinghouse’s...

Scientists at UCLA have been able to regrow working brain cells in empty spaces left in the brain after a stroke. By itself, the brain doesn’t regenerate tissue after a stroke. The damaged cells are absorbed, leaving behind an empty space that never fills. The UCLA researchers solved that problem by injecting a hydrogel material into the areas surrounding the...

Demand for plastics that decompose into environmentally benign components will grow by as much as $100 million a year through 2023, according to a study by IHS Markit, a market analysis firm headquartered in London. Most plastics are petroleum-based and are virtually indestructible, languishing in dumps, roadside ditches, in oceans, and elsewhere for thousands of years when left on their...

In Japan, a human clinical trial is underway to test a possible cure for Parkinson’s Disease. Researchers will inject human stem cells directly into the brains of Parkinson’s sufferers, specifically into an area of the brain known to be a core location for developing the illness. The researchers reprogrammed stem cells to develop neurons that make dopamine, a key signaling...

More evidence that cell phones aren’t good for your head. A July 2018 study from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute looked at 700 adolescents and found that making a lot of calls with cell phones correlated with poor “figural memory” – the part of memory that remembers shapes and images. A majority of the teens studied were right-handed;...

Engineers at the University of Exeter in England have shown that a solar panel the size of a classroom textbook could power an entire home. Today’s solar panels typically have an efficiency of 20 percent at best, wasting 80 percent of their potential, based on size. The Exeter team used an electric field to “funnel” the electrons created by sunlight...