Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sanction the country into submission and said negotiating with Washington is “neither smart, wise, or honorable.”
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CHINA’S MAJOR CORPORATIONS BLEEDING CASH
Close to 25 percent of businesses listed on China’s stock exchanges reported a third-quarter net loss, the most recent period for which data has been reported.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
As we detail in this and previous Trends Journals, with the exception of the United States, most developed and underdeveloped nation’s economies are sluggish and/or in Dragflation: declining economic growth and rising inflation.
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HAS DEEPSEEK POPPED THE AI INDUSTRY’S BUBBLE?
Now DeepSeek, a Chinese AI skunkworks, says its R1 AI model cost just $6 million to develop. Tests show that it performs about as well on many tasks as the newest systems from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
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TRUMP DOUBLE DOWNS ON MOVING GAZANS TO JORDAN, EGYPT
U.S. President Donald Trump last week doubled down on his plan to force Jordan and Egypt to accept Gazan refugees due to the extensive damage inside the enclave that Israel has bombed to ruins.
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FOREVERLAND: TECH CAN’T MATCH THE BEST LONGEVITY BOOSTER
Bio hackers and gurus spending and investing on venture capital projects to produce radical tech-based life extension, are indeed becoming commonplace news in 2025, as we had forecast in our 2025 Top Trend, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
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IRAN WARNS ISRAEL, U.S. AGAINST TARGETING ITS NUCLEAR SITES, SAYS IT WOULD LEAD TO ‘ALL-OUT WAR’
A top Iranian said Friday that an attack by Israel or the U.S. on one of its nuclear sites would lead to an “all-out” war and would be “one of the biggest historical mistakes” that Washington could make.
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TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST
Investors began to return to commercial properties in the latter part of 2024 but are still avoiding office buildings as a category, the Financial Times reported.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
As that lovely old-time song sung by Dinah Washington—who like other “Greats” were once-upon-a-time the truly high, unique spirit of America before music was destroyed by the synthetic Geeks—“What a Difference a Day Makes.”
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ECONOMIC BREAKING POINT. WILL WE GET NEGATIVE RATES?
The backbone of the entire world financial and economic system is being manipulated in a highly destructive and deceptive way. I am referring to central bank issued notes, and over 90 percent of the world population has no idea that it is happening.