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Last week, multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and well-known business tycoon, announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. His announcement was preceded by a nearly $40 million media blitz. Bloomberg has said he will commit at least $500 million to his campaign. Under the rules of the Democratic National...

Researchers are reinventing wood for the 21st century, making it transparent and embedding it with electronic sensors. The reason: concrete, steel, and glass – the staples of commercial construction – are not only finite resources but making them also emits an estimated 11 percent of the world’s excess CO2. Growing a steady supply of construction...

Bioscientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have brought a new version of the E. coli bacterium into the world. What’s notable is that this one can live without eating. Biologists generally divide life into two groups: one eats food and the other absorbs carbon dioxide and sunlight. Weizmann’s group has, for the first time,...

Diagnosing the early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease – before obvious symptoms develop – is still tricky. But it may become less so due to work done by Spanish scientists at Madrid’s Complutense University. Using noninvasive imaging methods, the researchers found that different layers of tissue in the retinas of Alzheimer’s patients’ thickened and thinned in...

U.S. equities hit new highs this week.  While the biggest of U.S. companies have reduced spending on equipment and other capitalist investments, the cheap money flow into the equity markets keeps pushing the overvalued stocks higher. According to Atlanta Federal Reserve reports, one in five manufacturers cut spending in the first half of 2019. In...

There are now calls from the OCED, the IMF, and the ECB for more government fiscal stimulus, as the monetary fixes are reaching their limits. For example, in Canada, they lost some 1,800 jobs in October. The loss was offset by the government taking taxpayer money to create public sector jobs, which will cost in...

This past Friday, ECB President Christine Lagarde warned of a sluggish economy, and she stepped up her call for the ECB to inject fiscal stimulus to boost the bloc’s growth. “We have a unique possibility to respond to a changing and challenging world by investing in our future, strengthening our common institutions, and empowering the...

This past Sunday’s elections were seen as a referendum on the extended street protests gripping Hong Kong for nearly six months. With 95 percent of the vote counted, all but one of the 18 local districts are now under the political control of pro-democracy councillors. Previously, all of the city councils were much more accepting...

As Gerald Celente stated in a Publisher’s Note in last week’s Trends Journal, when it comes to the U.S. and Latin America, “It’s all about the bottom line: the money corporations can make by robbing and killing anyone that tries to stop them.”   In an interview last week, ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales stated...

Last Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Columbians throughout the country began a national strike. The protest is against proposed austerity measures that would specifically weaken the state-run pension program counted on by millions of workers, while at the same time offering a lucrative tax cut for the wealthy.   In addition, the proposals would cut...