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To quote Gerald Celente: “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.” As we wrote in the Trends Journal two years ago, “When a critical mass of human spirit rises to higher levels, the state rises with it.” But the public’s estimation of the moral character of its leaders has hit epic lows....

As the Trends Research Institute predicted in 2015, “Takeover” has indeed taken over. Fed by the Federal Reserve’s cheap-money policies and mimicked with increasing skill across global economies, stock buybacks, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions have broadly outpaced business investment, true price discovery and entrepreneurial activity in developed and emerging markets. The consolidation in industrial, entertainment, media,...

The trend for self-sustainability, for individuals, their families and a growing number of countries, intensifies sharply in 2016. On the national level, with trade wars expanding and geopolitical tensions and conflicts escalating, countries with large enough populations and ample and/or unique natural and human resources will build and sustain economies by manufacturing and growing what they need and trading within their own borders....

As the first wave of baby boomers turns 70 in 2016, the Davy Crockett/Mickey Mouse Club/Vietnam War/Woodstock generation will be forced to make life-and-death decisions, choose misery or joy, and expand or retract lifestyle choices many put off for most of their lifetime. Quality-of-life factors loom large: Living longer, unable to retire as planned, no savings in...

It’s the Greatest Freak Show on Earth: the 2016 race for the White House, brought to you by those masters of propaganda, the six corporations that own and operate 90 percent of the country’s “news” media. It’s a red-white-and-blue bonanza of inanity and insanity, featuring the blood-drenched “leaders” of the Republican and Democratic Gangs: the...

Once upon a time, the principles of free-market capitalism could answer the country’s most pressing economic questions: Where are equity markets headed? Will wages rise? Will retail sales rebound? Those days are gone. Capitalism is dead. It was killed in 2008 by four little words: “Too big to fail.” Bankism prevails. Central banks have lowered...

Throughout 2016 and for years to come, millions of refugees will flee war-torn nations looking for safety. Millions of migrants will leave economically depressed countries looking for work. The “Great Migration” trend the Trends Research Institute identified in 2011 was ignored by the media and ridiculed by politicians. Five years later, those same politicians and...

If trend lines drawn since 2001’s War on Terror are not reversed, World War III will not only be a Top Trend of 2016 – it may be the last world war. The toll exacted by the War on Terror is staggering: trillions of wasted dollars; countries and cities destroyed; millions of refugees; and untold numbers...

What a year 2015 was! Looking back, with neither economic nor geopolitical fronts looking prosperous or peaceful, the aware and awake are preparing for the year ahead – especially in the new age of equity-market volatility and growing War on Terror fears. While the concerns are real, a future of gloom and doom often lies in...

While this is the first “trends” retreat of its kind, attendees of previous health and well-being retreats at the Naples facility have raved about the life-changing power of the experience. (See the Conference News section of Trendsresearch.com.)