Welcome to the third edition of Trends Monthly, an electronic newsletter for subscribers to Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal and Trendsresearch.com multimedia website, as well as the media. Coming on the heels of the Autumn 2014 Trends Journal, released last week, this edition of the newsletter delves into breaking-news events during the last few weeks to analyze their trajectory and significance....
Medical monopolies cost consumers
The health care industry calls it consolidation, but the rapid pace of hospital mergers and the frenzy of hospitals and large medical groups to buy up individual practices — turning independent physicians into employees — has the look and feel of monopolization. As with all monopolies, this one is reducing competition and raising costs to consumers. The trend in hospital...
Bitcoin, bucks and gold
What a difference a year makes. After peaking at $1,145.46 last November, a bitcoin now sells, as we go to press, for about $350. After gold peaked at $1,921.50 a troy ounce in September 2011, it’s trading in the low- to mid-$1,200 range. As for the dollar, after falling to 1.45 against the euro when gold was hitting new highs,...
Ebola scare spawns shady businesses
Ebola is coming, Ebola is coming! One person contracted it here, another there, soon it will be coming to a neighborhood near you. That’s the underlying fear and hysteria message most major cable and network news channels are pitching. And if it’s not stopped in its tracks, the talking heads and “experts” predict Ebola can become the next Black Plague. To...
Top Trends 2015 event
Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute will announce its Top Trends 2015 forecast Dec. 6 during a multimedia presentation in front of a live audience at its historic facility in Kingston, NY. The event, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., includes breakfast, lunch and an evening reception. The conference will showcase a series of unique and penetrating...
Want a new career? Try cyber security
In 2014, the number of high-profile data breaches will reach epic proportions. In fact, there were nearly 700 data breaches already reported this year. That’s a 27-plus percent increase over the same period last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. By some counts, shoppers are becoming accustomed to the headlines over credit card data thefts and showing less...
Hands-on path to peace
Talk of war and peace concluded the Trends Research Institute’s fall conference in Kingston, NY, earlier this month. It wasn’t water cooler or bar talk; it was structured, meaningful and driven. We talked about the new age of endless war. We talked about the suffering to come, the destruction around the bend. And we talked about how easy it is...
From the editor…final thoughts
In my student days, I was fascinated by the muckrakers, those turn of the (20th) century investigative reporters — such as Upton Sinclair, Ida M. Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens — who exposed social ills, corporate shenanigans and political corruption. They were at the head of the pack of watchdog journalists and their stories, often years in the making, effecting real...
Agequake trend growing strong
The Trends Research Institute has provided unique perspectives on critical aspects of the global aging trend, including how creativity, entrepreneurism and morality will grow even more important in old age. As the institute prepares its trends forecast for 2015, the focus on aging will underscore the growing signs of how aging, for many, will become more and more a journey...
My three dinner guests
I’m sure you’ve all heard of this little game , where you’re asked what 3 dinner guests you’d like to invite to a meal if you could chose any 3 guests whether they currently be from this present era or not. I have to say, I’m not very good at this game because I never choose Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, or...