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For the past year, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and other market analysts have warned that solar-electric panels, coupled with improved electricity-storage systems such as Tesla’s home battery (Trends Journal, Winter 2015) threaten electric utilities’ business model. In 2014, an analysis by investment bank UBS stated, “…the ‘we have done it like this for a century’...

Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, announced March 26 from Washington, D.C., that his country and a coalition of Arab nations had launched airstrikes against neighboring Yemen, which has been wracked by civil war. Al-Jubeir said Operation Decisive Storm’s mission was “to defend and support the legitimate government of Yemen and prevent...

There is no real economy. For those working stiffs of Slavelandia, whose real wages have declined and whose puny bank accounts return little interest, the bottom has fallen out. In Economics 2.0, the gauge of prosperity measured by governments and the business media has become the health of the equity markets. And the only “economy” that...

March retail sales rose 0.9 percent, the healthiest monthly gain in a year. But the gain was below economists’ expectations and driven in large part, by auto sales, which increased 2.7 percent. Back out the spike in auto sales, and the March increase dives to .5 percent. Beyond the headlines, however, there’s a dimension to...

Extending the trend to turn abandoned industrial buildings from brown to “green,” the site of an abandoned steel plant in Newark, New Jersey, is slated to become a 69,000-square-foot vertical farm. The $30 million project is being organized by the private AeroFarms company, which also will maintain its headquarters on the site. The initiative is...

On March 30, Chinese authorities announced the closure of 66 out of the 400 golf courses built after a 2004 nationwide moratorium tried to impose limits on the development of new courses. Banned in 1949 because of its association with western bourgeoisie values, golf has made a huge comeback since it’s reinstatement in 1984. China...

Retrograde 2.0, one of the Trends Research Institute’s top trends for 2015, postulated that millennials, more than any young generation before, were positioned to reach back to the distant past to reinvent the future. In the winter Trends Journal, Gerald Celente wrote: “Listen to the millennials. What’s their vibe? Name that tune. It’s a scene-less...

The last five years have seen the emergence of the casual fast-food phenomenon, a trend line first identified by Gerald Celente in the Trends Journal and later in his book Trends 2000. In a CNBC article earlier this month, it was reported that fast-casual restaurants are the “only niche in the restaurant sector that’s shown...

The sheer number of Baby Boomers is challenging social, government and medical systems as they age, but what happens when they die? Burying? Burning? How about composting? Between 2024 and 2042, 76 million Americans could reach the current average life span of 78 years. Burying their remains would claim an area bigger than Las Vegas....

At noon on September 20, 2015, rescheduled from May 2, the Trends Research Institute will launch Occupy Peace, a movement designed to reinstate the core values that gave birth to this nation and to provide the tools for advancing peace and restoring prosperity. The roots of this movement will take hold at the heart of...