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HMOs are so 20th century.  Doctors – and, like it or not, their patients – are now being moved into “accountable care organizations,” or ACOs.  The result is likely to be less health care dispensed to, and more responsibility placed on patients for self-care, especially for older folks. Created by the Affordable Care Act, an...

“Find Your Future in Trends” is the latest in a series of dynamic, interactive symposia hosted by Gerald Celente and the Trends Research Institute at the institute’s historic facilities in Colonial Kingston, NY. This symposium, scheduled for Saturday, June 6, will provide hands-on training in how to track the trends that will directly affect the...

Tomorrow’s lithium batteries – including those that will power electric cars – may hold more energy, longer, thanks to researchers at the University of California at Riverside. Lithium batteries, now the standard power source for most consumer electronics, typically contain 10 to 30 times more graphite – used for the battery’s negative electrode – than...

Dueling analysts declare that oil prices have touched bottom – or that they will keep sliding on down past $40, possibly settling at $20, where Saudi Arabia would leave them indefinitely. The truth of the matter probably lies in the US rig count -the number of drilling rigs at work making new oil and gas...

In early February 2014, a recording was leaked of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Victoria Nuland, telling Geoffrey Pyatt, the US Ambassador to Ukraine, that the UN was on board to “help glue” the plan to replace Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych with Arxeniy Yatsenyuk. “Yats is the guy,” Nuland informed Pyatt who urged...

Welcome to the February edition of Trends Monthly, bringing you stories on a range of trend lines we are tracking at the Trends Research Institute. Publishing in addition to the Winter 2015 Trends Journal, released earlier this month, our expanded content and services are now delivered across multiple platforms. Check out our many subscription options...

The big economic trends at the start of the New Year were diving oil prices, rising gold prices and extreme equity market volatility. As February draws to a close, each of those trends lines have reversed. Why? Where are they headed? What will or can change them? On the oil front, the issue remains the...

  TRENDS CONFERENCE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO PREPARE, SURVIVE & PROSPER “Find Your Future in Trends,” a dynamic one-day conference hosted by Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute, will teach participants the institute’s tried, true and exclusive methodologies to accurately forecast trends in their lives and survive, prepare and prosper from their own forecasts. Held...

These official government inflation increases in 2014 — for 24 items that comprise a significant percentage of the household budget — incorporate “substitution” and “quality improvement” reductions made by the government. The actual increases, prior to these statistical manipulations, are higher.Food at home: 3.7%Food away from home: 3.0%Meat: 12.7%Fish and seafood: 5.6%Eggs: 10.7%Milk: 5.2%Fruits &...

America’s appetite for war keeps growing. From the White House to Congress, from the Pentagon to defense secretaries past and present, old wars have been re-ignited, new ones started and the prospects for a perpetual state of war are being sold as the American way. Manipulated economies across the globe keep populations struggling to make...