We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Today gold prices spiked $173, selling at $5,180 per ounce and silver went up $8.31 selling at $112.09 per ounce.
GLOBAL DEBT, THE HUMAN BUBBLE AND THE POLICE-STATE PIVOT
Central banks engineer dependency on their debt-based fiat system. FULL-STOP.
SPECIAL REPORT: GOLD, SILVER SET PRICE RECORDS
As Trends Journal subscribers will know, we called the bottom of gold in September 2023 when it was selling at $1,850 per ounce.
HUMAN SET-ASIDES
Will politicians and those in jurisprudence act rationally to compensate and protect people from ongoing rampant exploitation by the AI industry?
OXFAM: BILLIONAIRE WEALTH REACHES HIGHEST PEAK EVER IN 2025, AS FORTUNES INCREASE BY OVER 16 PERCENT IN 2025
Oxfam released a report last week that showed billionaire wealth increased by over 16 percent last year to a record $18.3 trillion combined, all while just about half of the population on earth lives in poverty.
UN: RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF PALESTINIANS DISPLACED IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK IN 2025
Israel’s attempt to make life a living hell for Palestinians in the West Bank intensified in 2025 and resulted in 37,000 residents being displaced inside the territory, which was a record high number, the UN announced on Monday.
Global Economy
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
Rising operating costs continue to fuel a wave of closures across the retail, restaurant, and manufacturing sectors. In the United Kingdom, Poundland has closed 149 locations, while Toys “R” Us Canada has announced the closure of 19 stores.
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Mounting economic pressures, industry shifts, and rapid technological disruption continue to drive job losses across multiple sectors.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
China’s Zijin Gold International, among the world’s largest gold miners, is pocketing Canadian counterpart Allied Gold for C$5.5 billion in cash, or about U.S.$4 billion.
U.S. Economy
USA: ’THE WORST JOB MARKET I’VE EVER SEEN’
Job opportunities for economists, especially young ones looking for a foothold in the profession, are the worst in years, The Wall Street Journal reported.
U.S. GOVERNMENT BUYS 16 MILLION SHARES OF RARE MINERALS COMPANY
The Trump administration has issued a letter of intent to provide a $1.3-billion loan and $277 million in financing to USA Rare Earth, an Oklahoma company that mines rare earth minerals and uses them to produce high-tech magnets for the aerospace, defense, electric vehicle, and electronics industries.
IN SURPRISE REVERSAL, HOME SELLERS OUTNUMBER BUYERS
After more than three years in which desperate home buyers bid up the prices of the near-historically low number of homes for sale, in December, there were about 45 percent more households trying to sell their houses than people who bought homes, despite mortgage interest rates falling to their lowest in about three years.
Trends in AI
NEW AI FINDS THE SIMPLE RULES UNDERLYING CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY
Duke University’s new AI can penetrate chaotic or complex systems that have thousands of variables to distill simple, easily understood rules and compact equations that show how the systems work.
META PRE-BUYS FUTURE ENERGY SUPPLIES FROM EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Meta Platforms has signed contracts to buy four gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power from two research companies that have not yet received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a reactor.
AI WILL CLAIM JOBS AT A MORE RAPID PACE THIS YEAR, EXPERTS WARN
This year, AI will erase jobs at a growing pace but not improve companies’ efficiency, productivity, or profitability until later, economists expect.
Hi-Tech Science
COMING THIS YEAR? A CHINESE EV WITH A 900-MILE RANGE
Solid state batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) have been in development for years. Now they’re about to hit the road, according to Chery, a major Chinese automaker.
SPRAY-ON PLANT DEFENSE AGAINST DISEASE, DROUGHT
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have good news for the world’s estimated 318 million people facing acute hunger in 68 countries.
PROJECT AIMS TO BUILD TOOLS TO WRITE THE FIRST SYNTHETIC HUMAN GENOME
Scientists have mastered elementary genomic “literacy” well enough to create genetic structures from scratch for viruses, bacteria, and yeasts.