Tag: Spring2016

In our spring 2015 Trends Journal, two months before Donald Trump, a bona fide reality-show champion, became a contestant in The Presidential Reality Show™, we forecast Hillary Clinton would win the race for the White House. In part, we wrote: “If the election were held today, and Hillary Clinton survives the cash-for-influence scandal, we forecast...

In late April, billionaire financier George Soros sounded the “Crash” alarm, warning the world that the $30 trillion Chinese debt bubble is ready to burst. “Stimulus can buy you additional time, but it makes the problem that much bigger. That’s where we are,” Soros said. He’s not alone. Billionaire real-estate tycoon Sam Zell predicted the...

Before we head for summer and the endlessly looming, over-covered fall election, let’s take a moment. Consider the desperate measures the four most powerful central banks have taken this year to push their artisanal money policies to the limit, keeping markets, banks and (in their minds only) economies afloat through artificial manipulation, stimulation and value...

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...

What: Summer Retreat When: July 22-23 Where: Colonial Kingston, New York Gerald Celente, featured speakers Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, and Trends Research Institute analysts invite you to a unique, empowering two-day retreat this summer to help you become an “OnTrendpreneur™” — a savvy, innovative professional able to identify and seize high-potential opportunities in the...

It’s a geek-ruled world. Webster’s refers to a geek as “a person who is socially awkward… a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked.” You remember them from high school and college? They didn’t fit in. Not with the jocks, the hipsters, the class clowns, the bohemians, the gangsters or any other clique....

Reality is so 20th century. It was during the 1980s when its replacement began to emerge. With pricey computers and clunky graphics, the primitive technology of “virtual reality” projected graphic representations onto computer screens, showing scenes that would move or turn with you, creating the illusion that you’re physically in the middle of a parallel...

A blind mountain climber tastes his way to the summit. A deaf musician hears melodies on his skin. A color-blind painter listens to hues and shades. New technologies in “sensory substitution” are helping the brain replace one damaged sense with another that learns to step in and do the same task. These assistive technologies capitalize...

Trend forecaster Gerald Celente, whose book, “What Zizi Gave Honeyboy,” was made into a film starring Doris Roberts in her last dramatic role, paid tribute to the Emmy Award-winning star on the news of her passing in April. “How grateful I am to have met Doris and for her wonderful portrayal of my aunt Zizi,” said Celente....

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...