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What a difference a year makes. After peaking at $1,145.46 last November, a bitcoin now sells, as we go to press, for about $350. After gold peaked at $1,921.50 a troy ounce in September 2011, it’s trading in the low- to mid-$1,200 range. As for the dollar, after falling to 1.45 against the euro when...

Ebola is coming, Ebola is coming! One person contracted it here, another there, soon it will be coming to a neighborhood near you. That’s the underlying fear and hysteria message most major cable and network news channels are pitching. And if it’s not stopped in its tracks, the talking heads and “experts” predict Ebola can become...

Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute will announce its Top Trends 2015 forecast Dec. 6 during a multimedia presentation in front of a live audience at its historic facility in Kingston, NY. The event, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., includes breakfast, lunch and an evening reception. The conference will showcase a...

In 2014, the number of high-profile data breaches will reach epic proportions. In fact, there were nearly 700 data breaches already reported this year. That’s a 27-plus percent increase over the same period last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. By some counts, shoppers are becoming accustomed to the headlines over credit card...

Talk of war and peace concluded the Trends Research Institute’s fall conference in Kingston, NY, earlier this month. 

It wasn’t water cooler or bar talk; it was structured, meaningful and driven. We talked about the new age of endless war. We talked about the suffering to come, the destruction around the bend. And we talked...

In my student days, I was fascinated by the muckrakers, those turn of the (20th) century investigative reporters — such as Upton Sinclair, Ida M. Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens — who exposed social ills, corporate shenanigans and political corruption. They were at the head of the pack of watchdog journalists and their stories, often years...

The Trends Research Institute has provided unique perspectives on critical aspects of the global aging trend, including how creativity, entrepreneurism and morality will grow even more important in old age. As the institute prepares its trends forecast for 2015, the focus on aging will underscore the growing signs of how aging, for many, will become...

I’m sure you’ve all heard of this little game , where you’re asked what 3 dinner guests you’d like to invite to a meal if you could chose any 3 guests whether they currently be from this present era or not. I have to say, I’m not very good at this game because I never...

In Albania a fascinating exploration project is underway. As you know Albania is only a short distance across the Adriatic sea to Italy. On the Italian side several kilometers below the surface, 80,000 BBLs of Oil flow from only 30 wells or thereabouts. More importantly the decline rates are rather minimal due unique carbonate geology,...

Dear Gerald, There’s a pile of ridiculous articles out there claiming Putin is paranoid. Yet one fussy photo from a $2 camera of a “white bump” in the waters off Sweden and the Swedes mobilize a massive hunt using the navy and air force. Then the feedback mechanism pumps more BS in a loop for...