Walk into any coffee shop or bar, and you’ll almost certainly see adults (and children) lost in the glow of their smartphones, tablets or laptops, detached from reality—alone on their digital private islands, uninterested in those around them, and engrossed in their own digital reality.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision attack Venezuela on 3 January – and its president’s residence, killing several of his body guards and taking President Maduro and his wife to the United States...
Sad, but true, the greater the socioeconomic and geopolitical instability the higher the prices of safe-assets such as gold and silver rise, and now is a time of serious danger ahead for all to see and hear.
As 2026 kicks off, who knew that an emerging tension facing humankind would be Artificial Super Intelligence and its synthetic siren-promises of endless abundance?
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the nation's inflation pace eased, but as we report in this issue of The Trends Journal, “Did Inflation’s Pace Ease In November?” The hard facts are showing that U.S. inflation is still high and the reality on The Street is that the higher inflation rises the deeper the U.S. dollar falls and falling it is.
Currently the US is facing two distinct crises, both of which are feeding on the other via a single feedback loop… but that is actually the least of our problems.
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported November’s inflation rate at 2.7 percent and core inflation, which filters out energy and food prices, at 2.6 percent, both reversing a rise in September.
The Bio Pharma industry will likely be spending more in 2026 on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As).
The anti-Russia hysteria seems to be hitting its peak in the UK, with the country’s top military officer now stating that the public needs to prepare itself to start losing its “sons and daughters” in a major war with Russia as efforts to bring the Ukraine War to an end continue to hit snags over security guarantees and land.
The U.S. announced last week that it carried out airstrikes on two more suspected drug boats in the Pacific Ocean that killed at least five people, bringing the death toll to 104 in these controversial strikes.