Here’s what we see for community news coverage in 2015: “As print-driven journalism fades, robust coverage of communities and the issues that drive life in those areas suffers. General news coverage provided by dominant media outlets fades. And that encourages upstart media outlets to fill the coverage gaps…” The big chains – Gannett, News Corp., Tribune, Scripps-Howard, etc. – have...
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KINGSTON, N.Y. (Dec. 9, 2014) – Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute today released a special digital edition of the Trends Journal dedicated to the institute’s forecast of the Top Trends for 2015. Featuring analyses by Celente, economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, business journalist Nomi Prins, science writer Bennett Davis and other experts, the special edition explores...
We’ve lost control
For 35 years, I have been analyzing socioeconomic and geopolitical events and forecasting their impact on our lives. I have noted countless times how current events form future trends. The history of how we got here and the knowledge of where we are inevitably reveals the face of the future. But as history unfolds it sometimes becomes blurred by partisan...
The grand manipulation
The newest trend is most dangerous. This new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury. The Federal Reserve reduced real interest rates on US government debt obligations first to zero and then pushed interest rates into negative territory. Today the government charges you for the privilege of purchasing its bonds. People...
Trendpost
What we are experiencing is not a repeat of the past. The ability or, rather, the audacity of the US government to manipulate the major financial markets is new. Can this new trend continue? Governments and economists take their hats off to free markets. Yet, the markets are rigged, not free. How long can stocks stay up in a lackluster...
Capitalism on the brink
Bankism has replaced capitalism as the prevailing economic system throughout much of the world. In capitalism, businesses rise and fall on their own merits. No business is too big to fail. In bankism, too-big-to-fail banks don’t rise and fall on their own merits. They are saved by governments that in turn force the public to pay for banks’ mistakes by...
Trendpost
Despite public rhetoric, bankism will grow in 2015 because the financial system is unstable and QE is not over. For solvency and reputational reasons, both central and private banks need, and will collaborate on, low rates for liquidity and to inflate asset prices. This will keep bond and stock prices propped up for the first half of 2015. In the...
Deflation or depression?
For generations, in addition to the risks of recession and unemployment, the common economic pain inflicted upon the general public throughout the free world was inflation. Rising prices routinely outpaced rising wages. It cost more to buy less. As the post-World-War-II era song goes: Now listen Mr. President, all you Congressmen too, you got me all frustrated and I don’t know...
Trendpost
The formula is a simple one: Too much product is flooding the global marketplace and there’s a chronic shortage of people with enough money to buy those products. Price wars will mark a new age of retail marketing. Who will be the winners and losers? And even as commodity prices decline in many sectors, the cost of living will continue...