In a 2011 Pew Research Study on the purpose of education, “Just under half of the public (47%) says the main purpose of a college education is to teach work-related skills and knowledge. Another 39%, however, say that college is an opportunity for students to grow personally and intellectually.” A more recent 2019 Gallup poll...
Category: TRENDS EYE VIEW
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SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS = INFLATION
Evidence of supply chain disruptions are everywhere consumers look… except the mainstream news. The unprecedented “shelter-in-place” rules imposed by governments to fight the COVID War have not only crippled the livelihoods of hundreds of millions across the globe and destroyed the businesses of countless millions, they also have crushed many sectors of the economy. The...
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RON PAUL SUFFERS MEDICAL EMERGENCY DURING LIVESTREAM
As Trends Journal subscribers well know, Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Celente has made clear that the only presidential candidate he has supported as an adult was Ron Paul because of his ant-war, pro-peace, anti-Federal Reserve big bank cartel platforms… and his avocation to return to the gold standard. In addition to appearing on...
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AMERICA: IN FARMERS WE TRUST
The analytics company Gallup has been polling Americans on their opinions of various businesses and industries. This year’s poll, which came out on 3 September, states, “For the first time in Gallup’s 20 years of tracking Americans’ views of various business and industry sectors, farming and agriculture is the clear leader.” Farming and agriculture had...
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CUOMO GETS BOOK DEAL TO WRITE FAIRY TALE
Before the coronavirus broke out, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had a 47 percent approval rating. When he began to lock down the NY in March to fight the COVID War and was the big star on his daily TV press conferences, by 10 April, a poll conducted by FiveThirtyEight showed his approval rating surged...
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AMERICANS DO NOT TRUST THEIR MEDIA
86 percent of Americans find a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of political bias in media political coverage. According to a recent report published on 4 August titled, “American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy,” Americans are losing confidence that the news they are getting from media is objective and fact-driven. The report, conducted...
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AMERICA: THE LAND OF MISERY
The gold medal for “reversal of fortune” goes to… The United States of America. The annual Bloomberg Index, published on 6 August, shows the U.S. dropping from #50 all the way down to #25 on the global misery list. This puts the U.S.A. behind both Russia and Mexico. Bloomberg arrived at the current scoring based...
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FOOD STAMPS FOR JUNK FOOD
In addition to schools encouraging children and teenagers to drink diabetes and obesity-causing sodas, our tax dollars every day encourage poor people to eat and drink their way to ill health… and death. Sodas and junk food are highly consumed items by over 40 million low-income Americans, with over $70 billion in benefits each year...
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DRINK LOTS OF SODA AND DIE
As the trends indisputably prove, obesity is weighing down the world, and its implications are deadly and costly. In the U.S., the Milken Institute’s 2018 study, “America’s Obesity Crisis: The Health and Economic Costs of Excess” found, “In 2016, chronic diseases driven by the risk factor of obesity and overweight accounted for $480.7 billion in...
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FAT CHANCE FOR GOOD HEALTH
As reported for months in the Trends Journal, obesity is one of the main risk factors attributed to death from COVID-19. This makes the recent study on worldwide obesity particularly relevant. Of the higher income countries worldwide, the U.S. and Australia have the highest adult obesity levels. Indeed, one of our Top Trends for 2019...