Rising U.S. interest rates, higher oil prices, lower earnings and geo-political unrest are merging to form an economic tsunami. When the Dow dropped 830 points on 10 October, and fell 1,300 points for the week, $1.7 trillion was wiped off the S&P 500 and nearly $3 trillion off global stocks. Since that turning point moment...
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Equities and the economy
If you invested in the Chinese markets, or for that fact the entire Emerging Market Index, now down 20 percent this year, you’re stuck in bear territory. If you put your money in the American markets, you’re riding on top of what is now the longest bull run in U.S. stock history. What’s next? On...
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10: Brick and Mortar Bounce Back
THIS WAS OUR 2018 TREND FORECAST: Brick-and-mortar businesses, emphasizing quality and value delivered with a human touch, will grow stronger in 2018 and own a bigger piece of the retail market-share pie. While struggling retail chains close brick-and-mortar stores at a record pace, mom-and-pop businesses on Main Street, and in particular in “Organic Growth Cities,”...
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Clean water shortage
Confirming one of Gerald Celente’s major long-term predictions, NASA says that finding enough fresh water will be humanity’s major challenge of the 21st century. The conclusion was drawn from data gathered by tracking global freshwater trends from 2002 through 2016, though NASA’s Gravity Research and Climate Experiment. The study also found that freshwater losses are...
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Trendpost
The number of national entities is growing. Europe alone has 50 percent more countries than it had some 40 years ago. Many more potentially new nations are waiting in the wings. As we write, Catalonia is considering seceding from Spain. Kurdistan may split from Iraq (and later possibly from Turkey and Iran). Scotland is likely...
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2. Economic Disorder
The economic year that was will never be again. The new economic year ahead will be like none we have ever seen before. Indeed, this time last year, we forecast that panic would hit Wall Street in 2016. And, immediately after the new year was rung in, the Dow Jones suffered one of its worst openings...
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President Trump economy vs. global economy: Winners and losers
Just as the mainstream media and major pollsters got it wrong forecasting Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump for the White House, Wall Street’s forecast that a Trump win would sink equity markets and send gold prices sharply higher also was a losing bet. Throughout the election season, Wall Street was strongly pro-Clinton. Markets moved...
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Farewell to cash
A global cashless society is fast becoming a reality. The evidence couldn’t be clearer. Just this month, for example, under the guise of protecting us from terrorism and drug cartels, the European Central Bank announced it would no longer produce the 500 Euro note. Spinning the same tale, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is promoting...
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Don’t dare question war
ANZAC stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps from World War I. But it now stands for a lot more. April 25 was ANZAC Day, Australia and New Zealand’s Veterans Day, and has been so for more than a century. It commemorates the landing by the ANZAC expeditionary force on the Gallipoli peninsula in...
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Behind Putin’s Syria decision
President Vladimir Putin, once again, defied conventional geo-political wisdom when he announced without warning March 14 that he was pulling Russian air-combat forces out of Syria. State Department chief spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged March 17 that the US government had been given no notice by Moscow and was taken by surprise by the move. Why...