Tag: summer2013

Is there a difference between Reality TV and TV Reality News? There isn’t. At least not anymore. Michael Jackson. Casey Anthony. Trayvon Martin. The Royal Baby. These are just a small sampling of names that dominated the news recently and during last few years. If news is what people are talking about, then these all...

An objective review of the economic data indicate that the U.S. economy is approaching a second downturn of the recession that began in 2008. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), real median household income, payroll employment, real retail sales, housing starts, and consumer confidence dropped sharply during 2008 and 2009 and have not recovered their previous...

Trends Research Institute contributors sat down with Trends Journal Publisher Gerald Celente for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the global economy and the direction it is taking. The trends forecaster provided a number of concise, timely answers to questions touching on job growth, investment opportunities, economic policy and the disappearing “common investor.” In...

From Australia to Mexico to sub-Saharan Africa, the world is gripped by a shortage of fresh, clean water. The evidence is everywhere. Up to 80% of China’s rivers are now so polluted that they no longer support aquatic life. NASA satellite photos indicate that India’s water table is shrinking by as much as a foot...

It’s the Summer of 2013. How much of what has happened since the Spring Trends Journal do you remember? And of what you do remember, which events affected your life? Spring was still new when on April 15 two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were accused of detonating bombs near the finish line of the...

In the 20th century, the American heartland — from Kansas City to Pittsburgh — sprouted factories that turned out everything from hammers to rocket engines. Now, after decades of hard times for manufacturing, the heartland is sprouting again. Only this time, the crop is sprouts – along with jobs, an urban-agriculture industry, and a solution...

Turn on the cable business shows, read the financial papers, listen to the media’s prized “experts,” hear it from billionaires, and most of all, pay attention when Mr. Big speaks. The message is essentially the same: Gold is a loser’s game. We begin with media favorite Nouriel Roubini, New York University’s own and a member...

What has been clear for decades to a steadily increasing number of people inside and outside of Israel, has now become fact that no rational person can deny: The so-called Two State Solution (TSS) is dead. In fact, it never was alive; it is not possible to implement, no matter what American or international pressure...

Interest Rate Recovery: Home ownership in the U.S. is back where it was two decades ago. How low can it go? As go interest rates, so goes the U.S. real estate market. If the 30-year fixed mortgage rate hits 5 percent, the real estate market will dive. From Canada to China, as the global economy...

There is more to trends than forecasting them to find business and investment opportunities. For me, I do my best to live them. One of the biggest, most important lifestyle trends I learned in my early days of forecasting is Whole Health Healing. My ex-wife had long been suffering from ulcerative colitis and was hospitalized several times....