The ease in which political leaders can take the country to war and then argue along party lines — only about what degrees of death and destruction should be inflicted — is a longstanding trend line of the Trends Research Institute. In the fall Trends Journal, we wrote:“What has been conspicuously absent from the march to war championed by politicians,...

Global trends forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute traditionally have released their yearly Top Trends Forecasts in a December press release, followed by extensive analysis in the winter edition of the quarterly Trends Journal. This year is different. While this winter’s edition of the Trends Journal will be dedicated to a thorough examination of the 2015 trend lines...

Gun sales in the United States are declining, and the Trends Research Institute is expecting that trend line to continue. During the first half of 2014, reported sales from gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. saw healthy double-digit declines. Gun sales spike in the aftermath of high-profile violent news, such as the Sandy Hook Elementary...

The National Golf Foundation is acknowledging what the Trends Research Institute has been tracking and forecasting for some time: The once-beloved pastime of spending hours on the golf course, often cracking deals with business partners or making headway with the boss for that next promotion, is on a sharp decline. In fact, the foundation reported about 400,000 players vacated the...

There is nothing equitable about the federal forfeiture program called “equitable sharing.” It allows the feds, in collusion with local and state law enforcement, to seize property suspected of being linked to crime. Yet 81 percent of those who have had their property taken have never been charged, much less tried. When state or local police agencies seize money or...

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Welcome to the third edition of Trends Monthly, our electronic newsletter bringing you stories on a range of trend lines and evolving issues we track at the Trends Research Institute. Coming on the heels of the Autumn 2014 Trends Journal, released just last week, we hope this latest expansion of our content and services, now delivered across multiple platforms, is...

“The public has become convinced that they are at a new normal of a lower, poorer quality of life. The human cost is truly staggering.” That’s the finding of a national study by Rutger’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. Five years into the “recovery,” seventy-percent of Americans believe the impact of the Great Recession is “permanent.” What makes...

Is everybody happy? With crude oil prices down some 25 percent since June, filling up at the pump has become a bit less painful. And with winter coming on, lower fuels bill will bring welcome relief. The talk on the Street is that money not spent by Americans on fuel will fuel retail sales. However, with good jobs scarce, wages...

Russian engineers are embarking on a quest already under way at U.S. labs: The creation of a “hybrid” nuclear reactor combining fusion and fission to deliver cleaner, safer nuclear energy. Today’s nuclear reactors deliver energy through fission, the shattering of atoms, which creates radioactive waste. In fusion, atoms don’t fly apart but fuse together, releasing non-radioactive neutrons. But today’s fusion...