In 2018, while online shopping will grow bigger, smart brick-and-mortar retailers will grow stronger. The dramatic decline of shopping malls is often blamed on the rise of online shopping. There is no doubt about it. Digital retail has taken a big bite out of brick-and-mortar shopping, especially for malls. However, we identified other more powerful underlying trends that contributed to...

“Organic Growth Cities,” a Top Trend for 2018, celebrates the rebirth of down and out towns struggling through hard economic times. In nations around the world, during the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing centers blossomed in regions rich in natural resources, ports, waterways and rail lines that were vital for production and distribution. When the Industrial Age died, so too did many...

It’s more than just millennial madness fueling the “Cryptomania Cash-In” craze. It’s more than distrust directed at the conventional monetary/fiat currency system that’s making them seek alternatives outside the establishment.   They’re mad about the current political system, particularly in the United States. Once upon a time in the Land of Opportunity, polls showed the future was brighter than the present....

The entire world has its eyes on the USA as it becomes the DSA – the Divided States of America. After just his first year in office, President Donald Trump’s approval rating, at about one-third, is the lowest of any first-term president in polling history. But as the world’s media demonize Trump, he’s in good company. The Germans have had...

As quantitative data proves, the price-earnings ratio to stocks are approaching 1929/dot-com crash territory. Beyond prevailing economic fundamentals, the black swan event we forecast that will melt down markets will also murder millions. Much of the political and media world’s focus in 2017 has been on escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea. And while there is great concern...

Read the latest Trends Journal! Subscribe today and get instant access. We were the first magazine to forecast a Trump victory and the first to call a sustained Trump market rally. Now we’ll tell you comes next. With interest rates looming and crypotcurrencies booming and swooning, how you manage your money and investments in the immediate future is set for seismic...

In his book Trends 2000, published over 20 years ago, Trends Research Institute founder Gerald Celente laid the foundation for a powerful trend line — Interactive-U, he called it — that would fortify over a period of decades. “Interactive, online learning will revolutionize education…” he wrote. Moreover, he forecast that “the growth of the home education and Interactive-U trend will accelerate rapidly...

As forecast in our “New Millennial Political Party” and “Come Together Brand” Top Trends for 2018, citizens across the globe are disgusted with ingrained political systems in which elected officials carry out the will of special interests that enrich them with campaign contributions rather than serve the public’s interests.  In a Globalnomic® world, in which all things are connected, Blockchain...

The Trends Research Institute has long forecast China’s emergence as a global economic power. The 20th century was America’s century. As trends are developing, the 21st century will be China’s. Last year one of our Top Trends was “Buy, Sell China,” which detailed the opportunities on what to sell to them and buy from them. Another one of last year’s...

While the auto industry and its high-tech partners continue to tout driverless and new-energy vehicles (NEVs) as a reality just a few years away, Trends Research Institute tracking shows the hype is overblown. In 2018, investors and auto-industry watchers will learn just how many twists, turns, bumps and detours are along the road to vehicles that drive themselves or are...