In our 6 June Trend Alert, when gold was $1,332 per ounce, we forecast that a series of converging trend lines, including “weakening economic fundamentals and how central banks will address them — from Australia cutting interest rates to new lows, to China inventing money pumping schemes to artificially inflate falling equities and its sagging...
The Trends Journal has consistently and accurately forecast the price of gold based on global economic and equity market trends. Here are some examples from just this year to show how we were ahead of news and on top of the trend. 3 JANUARY 2019 “These worsening economic trend lines could compel the Federal Reserve...
It’s a worldwide mental, physical and social crisis. It affects virtually every age and socioeconomic group across the globe. Its debilitating, toxic effects leave no country, no corner of the world, unscathed. It dually fits the definition of both an addiction and an epidemic, but no drug or 12-step program yet exists to control its...
Many organizations/sites sharing warnings about the wireless health threat have names like ‘such-and-such for responsible technology.’ Or ‘safe technology.’ Or ‘safer.’ This article suggests that the physics and biophysics indicate that all such and similar names are deceptions. Maybe it’s not all controlled opposition, but wittingly or not, these entities flirt with terminal disaster by...
While Generation Z, those born between 1996 and 2010, is the first generation whose connection to the world around them is principally defined by the smart phone, it was Millennials who ushered in powerful technologies – the Internet of Things, smart phones, Alexa, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence etc. – that have built the foundation the...
In this edition of the Trends Journal we highlight several of the hot spots around the globe where the public is rising up against long established rulers while other nations are being targeted by foreign governments in the never-ending battle of regime change based on any pretext that media can sell and the public will...
In the 1990s, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire under military officer Mobutu Sese Seko between 1971 and 1997, was at the center of “Africa’s War,” a multi-nation conflict that claimed the lives of 6 million people. Mobutu established a military-backed kleptocracy and amassed a large personal fortune through corruption, which led to...
This oil-rich nation in the Maghreb region of North Africa is wracked by ongoing political and economic turmoil. One third of the population exists in poverty. It is estimated an additional 10 percent will fall into poverty if the economic situation does not improve. In February, massive protests, labeled “The Smile Revolution” under the banner...
Sudan consists of two countries, Sudan in the north and South Sudan. President Barack Obama granted U.S. recognition of South Sudan as an independent state after it formally seceded from the north in 2011. Barely reported in the western media, since 2003, conflict in the Darfur in the north has included large-scale genocide, forcing millions...
The political uprising against Ali Abdullah Saleh, who served as the first President of Yemen since its unification in 1990, erupted during the 2011 Arab Spring. In 2015, Saudi Arabia initiated warfare in Yemen after pro-Saudi and pro-American president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, the sole candidate who they appointed to replace Saleh, was ousted by a...