Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his running mate “cements the Republican Party’s shift from the free-market conservatism of the Reagan and Bush eras to the economic populism of the Make America Great Again movement,” the Financial Times said last week.
As trend forecasters, we note that “Opportunity misses those who view the world through the eyes of their profession.” What this means is that when a person is deeply absorbed with whatever sector of work they live in, and stuck in a political/social belief system, they are blind to the essential current events forming future trends.
JPMorgan Chase’s investment banking fees rocketed up 50 percent in this year’s second quarter compared to the same period last year, the bank said.
The security of the U.S. government’s data on jobs, consumer spending, crime, education, demographic trends, and other fields is at growing risk, according to a new study by the American Statistical Association.
During the COVID War, venture investments funneled billions into telemedicine and other digital health services, giving the sector $29.2 billion in 2021 alone, investor Rock Health reported.
Last month, the prices businesses charge for the products they make or the food they grow rose 0.2 percent from May and 2.6 percent year on year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Old news to Trends Journal subscribers, but now it’s finally making the mainstream media... U.S. consumers are being squeezed harder between high interest rates, heavy debts, and depleted savings…
In June, the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 3 percent, compared to 3.3 percent in May, the labor department reported.
The U.S. economy made another 206,000 jobs last month. The figure was more than economists had forecast in a Dow Jones poll but below May’s revised number of 218,000.
Bond buyers are trading out of the riskiest of junk bonds in favor of higher-rated securities as a rise in U.S. bankruptcies has raised concerns over the survival of highly-leveraged businesses during a prolonged period of high interest rates.