On 5 December, bitcoin jumped to an intraday price of $103,800, gaining more than 50 percent since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election a month earlier.
Category: HOMEPAGE
EAT JUNK FOOD, DIE QUICK
Fast food, fast death? It has been well-documented that ultra-processed foods could have a deleterious impact on the human body, but a newly released study out of Italy found that these kinds of foods—kitchen staples like packaged snacks or frozen foods—could be speeding up the pace in which your body ages.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
On the economic front, it is more of the same, but just a different day. The U.S. equities keep riding high following the re-election of Donald Trump who will take over the White House on Monday, 20 January 2025.
STOCK TRADERS SHRUG OFF TRUMP’S TARIFF THREATS
Equity markets seem to be taking Donald Trump’s threats of expansive new global tariffs in stride.
ISRAEL VIOLATING CEASEFIRE WITH HEZBOLLAH
The Israeli military has continued its effort to advance in southern Lebanon, carried out dozens of airstrikes, and continued to carry out demolition operations, despite a supposed ceasefire resolution with Hezbollah that called for an end of the fighting for 60 days.
WHEN AI LEARNS YOU, WHO OWNS “YOU?” (HINT: NOT YOU)
Young workers have already embraced AI in startling numbers to get work done and make their lives easier.
PUTIN WARNS THAT RUSSIA COULD TURN DECISION-MAKING CENTERS IN KYIV TO DUST WITH NEW MISSILE
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week warned that Moscow has escalation capabilities in Ukraine and its next targets could be a wide range of military facilities and decision-making centers in Kyiv that Moscow could “turn to dust.”
75 PERCENT OF ADULTS IN THE U.S. ARE CONSIDERED CLINICALLY OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE
A newly released study found that 208 million Americans out of about 335 million are considered to be medically overweight or obese.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
It’s a whole new economic game, and how it’s played and who will win is, at this point, a guessing game. By their gambling deeds, since the re-election of Donald Trump, The Street sees very happy times ahead for the U.S., while much of the world’s nations—as we detail in this and previous Trends Journals—see more economic downsides ahead.
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
This “New Alliance” of merging banks with cryptocurrencies will prove to be the most positive thing to happen for the banking system ever since going off the gold standard.