Another day in the U.S.A. is another day of economic and political uncertainty. And where it starts and stops nobody knows. As we continue to note, two of our Top Trends for 2025 are the Trump Card and the Wild Card, both of which are being played day-in and day-out.
For many years, and for those who follow my work, I have attempted to explain that there is a deliberate and extremely methodical new order or “transition” happening worldwide.
Foot traffic in American brick-and-mortar stores was 4.3 percent less in early March than a year earlier, continuing a reduction in shopping that began early this year, research service RetailNext reported.
Legacy media still mostly spouts the lines of tech CEOs (at least the ones who haven’t politically transgressed) concerning both the inevitability and the general gee-whiz awesomeness of AI and fast approaching AGI and ASI.
Haaretz, a top newspaper in Israel, ran an editorial last week that placed blame squarely on the Israeli government for the Gaza ceasefire’s undoing—challenging the propaganda from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and repeated in the Western media that the collapse was the result of an obdurate Hamas.
On 20 January 2025, Donald Trump gave his inauguration speech inside the U.S.’s Capitol Rotunda and said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” but two months later, he took the opposite approach…
This week’s Trends Journal cover speaks tens of thousands of words. Today, gold racked up a new high, hitting nearly $3,040 per ounce. As we go to press it’s at $3,034 per ounce... up nearly $1,000 per ounce since we forecast that a Top Trend of 2024 would be a Golden Year for Gold.
Over the past several weeks the U.S. stock market has suffered substantial losses. There is not a single day which has gone by over the last few weeks that I have not gotten bombarded with a single question, “Greg, Is This the Big Stock Market Crash?”
The U.S. spot gold price briefly topped $3,000 on 10 March, passing the milestone for the first time. The metal’s futures price in European evening trading surpassed the same milestone later on the same day.
Humans are being pressured in their work and personal lives to merge with AI in 24/7 “collaborative” existence, in order to avoid obsolescence.