2023 was just the opening act starting with regional/smaller banks. We called it then, and now they cannot cover it up as losses are piling up.
Category: HOMEPAGE
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AMERICA’S TWO ECONOMIES ARE MOVING FURTHER APART
The tech industry is flying high on artificial intelligence (AI). The new technology accounted for 1.1 percentage points of U.S. economic growth in the third quarter.
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HUMILITY VS. ‘GREAT RESPONSIBILITY’: ASI AND THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Artificial Super Intelligence? Don’t go there. That’s the message signed by hundreds of professionals in the AI tech industries and elsewhere.
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U.S. TO SEND AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO JOIN TRUMP’S ILLEGAL KILLING CAMPAIGN IN CARIBBEAN
The Pentagon announced Friday that the U.S. will position the USS Gerald R. Ford in the U.S. Southern Command to ostensibly join the fight against the drug trade in the region, but seen as President Donald Trump’s revamped effort to oust Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro—which has been a goal since his previous term.
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS BACK AWAY FROM COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
For the first time since 2012, institutional investors as a group have reduced the amount of money they have allocated to commercial real estate, the Financial Times reported.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
As the old saying goes, what goes up must go down. And for Trends Journal subscribers, in my podcast last Thursday evening, when gold kept spiking and hit $4,284 per ounce, I had forecast that with gold prices rising sharply higher—at rates that were far faster than we anticipated—there would be a sharp correction in gold prices.
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THE DEBT PARADOX… WHY ‘TOO MUCH’ IS NEVER ENOUGH
Core law… the system runs only on new debt. PERIOD. Debt must grow exponentially to keep prices, payrolls, and asset values from stalling. If the flow slows… credit freezes, cards/settlements fail, and the machine locks up.
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NEW TOP TREND: GEN Z REVOLUTION
Broke, busted and seeing a dismal future ahead, countries around the world are experiencing an outbreak of protests that largely centers on boiled-over frustrations from the Gen Z population—those 13 to 28 years old—who are tired of living under the corrupt establishment, leaving them with limited opportunities as the rich get richer and they get poorer.
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PROPHETS OF ABUNDANCE AND THE AI RESET
The AI reset is in full swing. As daily headlines signal problems for average human workers and creatives across the spectrum, technocrats continue to assure everyone that the “Abundance” is getting nearer.
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TRUMP NOW SAYS WHAT TRENDS JOURNAL FORECAST NEARLY 4 YEARS AGO
Go back to your Trends Journal. Right after the Ukraine War began on 24 February 2022, we had forecast that there was no way that Ukraine would defeat Russia, and that they should negotiate for a peace deal.