One reason the economic recovery doesn’t feel like one to many US workers is that the rate of new business startups in the US has fallen. In fact, the rate has declined by half – from 16 percent of all businesses in the country in the 1970s to 8 percent now, according to a study from the Ewing Marion Kauffman...
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War on drugs a miserable failure – and more to come
This was truth-telling time for the Obama administration: On March 2, the State Department issued its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report for 2016. As usual, the report reflected the extraordinary American obsession with playing judge and jury for the rest of the world, but inadvertently contained some extraordinary official admissions about the utter bankruptcy of US security policies and...
What the anti-Russia rhetoric means
It’s a safe bet that 99.99 percent of Americans never give a thought to the possibility of thermonuclear world war with Russia. But outgoing NATO Supreme Commander and US Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove does: His attitude is: “Bring it on!” Speaking at a Pentagon press conference March 1, Breedlove revealed that Obama administration civilian and military leaders have agreed...
Behind Putin’s Syria decision
President Vladimir Putin, once again, defied conventional geo-political wisdom when he announced without warning March 14 that he was pulling Russian air-combat forces out of Syria. State Department chief spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged March 17 that the US government had been given no notice by Moscow and was taken by surprise by the move. Why did Putin do it? Did...
No end to cheap-money trend
By Nomi Prins Contributing Editor On 16 December 2015, after seven years of near-zero short-term interest rates, the Federal Reserve bumped up the federal funds rate target range a smidge, from 0-0.25 percent to 0.25 percent-0.5 percent. Chairwoman Janet Yellen affirmed it was the start of a process “likely to proceed gradually” that translates to – well, nothing of substance,...
Federal Reserve stupid or playing stupid?
By Gerald CelentePublisher, Trends Journal KINGSTON, NY, 24 February 2016—You operate the largest printing press on the planet. You seek to hire the most highly qualified people to address current economic conditions and design strategies to maximize future market potential. However, when crisis strikes and with global equity markets in turmoil, those hired admit they are out of touch with the...
Your new Trends Journal
The Winter 2016 Trends Journal, packed with forecasts and analyses across a broad spectrum of topics, is now available. In 36 years of trend forecasting, the Trends Research Institute has never witnessed a new year that began with such high levels of equity-market volatility, rising geopolitical unrest and other emerging and extremely volatile socioeconomic signs as this year did. Trends Journal subscribers saw the...
Clinton’s “Heritage of Freedom” in Libya: Civil war, massacre, threats of genocide
As a contestant in the Presidential Reality Show, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to endlessly boast of her “experience” and “judgment’ in foreign policy. But among her proud triumphs is supporting and masterminding the toppling of Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, which has turned the country into another US-foreign-policy-made disaster. While there are facts and allegations about Gadhafi’s role...