Tag: Fall2017

It’s one year since underdog reality-show champion Donald Trump won the White House. Against all odds, equity markets have reached new highs despite his poll numbers hitting new lows. This is an important fact the media ignore: Political emotions have nothing to do with market realities. According to the media and public perception, it wasn’t...

While the media keep the public focused on escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea, our focus is on the Middle East. And our eye is on 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, installed as the nation’s de facto leader. In early November, the crown prince staged a palace purge, arresting and...

If paranoia is the fear of an irrational threat, is it irrational to prepare for an apocalyptic event such as an asteroid hit? What about a North Korean nuke attack? Monster hurricane? Global banking system crash? Mega stock-market collapse? Or even a solar storm knocking out the power grid? Once the realm of overly cautious...

For the last half century, we’ve heard it again and again: Globalization is an irreversible force whose irresistible pressures were destined to shrink, and eventually erase, differences separating people and countries and regions in which they have been embedded for millennia. This utopian vision has been enshrined in best-selling books such as Tom Friedman’s “The...

By Doug Grunther, CONTRIBUTING WRITER and Derek Osenenko, EXECUTIVE EDITOR While America’s fast-food industry may be hitting an earnings ceiling, it maintains its enormous grip on American eating habits and, despite the fast-emerging healthy-fast-food trend, continues to feed devastating health problems affecting growing segments of American society. Indeed, healthy alternatives to fast, cheap processed food...

The world has become so complex — from trying to feed 7 billion people to comprehending the exponential rise of computer intelligence in every aspect of our lives — that we no longer can count on heroic/brilliant individuals to solve these immense problems. From corporate boardrooms to educational forums to medical conferences, we see the...

In September, China announced that it signed a deal to buy $300 million of meat from Israel. This raised eyebrows for two reasons. First, Israel isn’t known as the Pampas of the East; you don’t see vast hordes of beef cattle munching their way across grasslands in a country that’s 60 percent desert. Second, this...

I had a very excited phone call from a family friend. She wanted to tell me about a wonderful opportunity. A new organization was offering to send Australian students to China to stay with families and help their children learn English. The organizer would pay airfares and all other trip costs. The first batch of...

Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute identified and have for years tracked the “Buy, Sell China” trend. While China has the world’s largest population, unlike the Made-in-USA multicultural label and pro-military-industrial-complex spending, China’s investors and its government seek innovation. Across the investment spectrum, China either drives innovation, especially in technology realms, or...

As many as one in three elderly Americans develop Alzheimer’s Disease. But, until recently, there’s been no way to accurately predict the illness. That means that doctors couldn’t be sure which treatment to try. Now bioscientists at Italy’s University of Bari Aldo Moro have used artificial intelligence to pick out telltale hints of Alzheimer’s in...