We are living in the new age of endless war, endless suffering and endless spending in the service of destruction. This new age has seen the US urgently wage war in other countries to rebuild those nations while America’s infrastructure rots and its citizenry grows more cynical, unhealthy and divided. The notion of rebuilding America first stands no chance when...

Thousands of volunteers worldwide are scrutinizing their computer screens, helping with tasks such as classifying animal photos, studying astronomical images, counting sea stars and examining cancer cell images. Though the majority have no technical training, they’re contributing millions of dollars’ worth of research time — and the kind of human judgment computers still can’t provide. “We are seeing projects that...

Beginning in Economics 101, through graduate school and after 35 years as an analyst with a solid track record of forecasting global socioeconomic and geopolitical trends, never, ever did college professors, government heads, business leaders or central bankers promote the concept that falling prices are bad — and rising prices are good. In fact, the opposite was taught. Inflation was seen...

The complexities of fighting for patient rights and navigating through the patient/insurance/health care provider/government maze provide an especially ripe and growing career sector for boomers. The spring 2014 Trends Journal forecast that patient advocacy would become a growing career niche, fueled by the complexities of implementing the Affordable Care Act. Tracking this trend shows that patient advocacy has grown substantially...

The New Year began on a down note. From economics to geopolitics, neither joy nor prosperity rang in 2015. World equity markets rattled on the first days of trading. By mid-month the shock waves intensified. The Swiss pulled their currency peg on the euro, pushing it to an 11-year low against the dollar. The Shanghai Index plunged 8 percent. Brent...

As a Trends subscriber, you know the drill: The healthy unemployment rates shoved down our throats every month are a smoke screen. Not only in the US, but throughout the western world. As Dr. Paul Craig Roberts writes in the upcoming winter Trends Journal: “A 5.6 percent rate of unemployment suggests that Americans have a reasonable chance of finding a...

For several months, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank and former vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International, had promised the financial community he would do “whatever it takes” to boost the European Union’s sagging economy.  On January 22 he exceeded market expectations with a $1.3 trillion quantitative easing program that has the ECB purchasing 60 billion...

The evidence is in: Your cellphone is slowly killing you. More than two dozen studies over more than a dozen years have linked cellphone use not only to cancers in, on and near your head, but also to other ills ranging from weakened memory to birth defects. Three new 2014 reports are just the latest. In one, University of Bordeaux...

Car ownership among the under-30 demographic is down and fewer 18-year-olds are obtaining driver licenses – trends that have framed the millennial generation as being uninterested in driving. Obvious factors – the traditionally high cost of fuel, soaring insurance costs, high student-loan debt and poor job prospects for the young – have played a role, but some analysts believe the...

Occupy Peace is an initiative The Trends Research Institute announced last fall to replace the talk of war with the talk of peace,  to replace the action of war with the action of peace. In a few short months, we kick off this bold campaign. We have changed the date from May 2 to Sunday, September 20, the day before...