Beijing’s efforts to rein in the bloody price war that has battered the country’s automakers in recent months showed some effect last month.
Category: 12 August 2025
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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
More than half of U.S. industries are currently cutting jobs, according to Moody’s Analytics, with only healthcare showing job gains.
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TRUMP OPENS PENSION FUNDS TO CRYPTO, PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS
Through an executive order signed last week, Donald Trump has instructed federal regulators to review and clarify current requirements around 401(k) pension plans so that the professionally managed funds can invest in cryptocurrencies and private equity accounts.
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: BONDHOLDERS IN DENVER OFFICE TOWER FACE A WIPEOUT
The collapse of the U.S. office market may have slowed but it is not yet over, as bondholders in Denver’s 42-year-old Wells Fargo Center have discovered.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: U.S. AUTOMAKERS SHIFT FROM EVs BACK TO GAS BUGGIES
Detroit is returning to a focus on internal combustion passenger vehicles after the Trump administration and a Republican Congress have voided policies and regulations that focused carmakers on the transition to electric mobility, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AGE IS JUST A (TRILLION DOLLAR) NUMBER, AND SCALE OF AI JOBS REPLACISM STUNS EXPERTS
Numbers posted this week about a booming “longevity industry” bear out one of our 2025 top trends, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
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AS FORECAST: CHINA HAVING TROUBLE RESPONDING TO CRYPTO INNOVATION
The Chinese regime’s penchant to control and surveil all mechanisms, in order to exert and maintain its political will, is facing greater challenges from crypto technology, now supercharged by the U.S. embrace of it.
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WHY IS ETHEREUM THE “NEW” OLD CRYPTO WUNDERKIND?
Since early 2023, Bitcoin has obviously led the way in terms of recovery from a particularly bleak “crypto winter” period. But is the recent renewed interest and price appreciation of Ethereum just a regular sign of a bull run “altcoin season”, or is something more happening?
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KENNEDY DEFUNDS RADICAL mRNA TECHNOLOGY
HHS (Health and Human Services) Director Robert F Kennedy Jr. this past week cut off 500 million in public funding earmarked for mRNA medical treatments and technology.