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The numbers tell the story. The global economy is slowing down. The growing risk of recession, denied by media pundits and “financial experts” just a few months ago, are now, according to business and consumer polls, a mainstream reality. The “Greatest Depression” that I forecast will not occur on a given day at a given...

UKRAINE: HISTORY BEFORE IT HAPPENS® Tracking trends is the understanding of where we are and how we got here to see where we’re going. Going back to our coverage in the Autumn 2014 Trends Journal, you can see how we got here: “For anyone seeking the facts, consider listening to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria...

ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE In a recent study conducted by Cigna, a global health service company, some 47 percent of respondents reported often feeling alone or left out. Another 13 percent said there were zero people who knew them well. The results can be deadly. Loneliness is not just a discomfort: it’s life-threatening. A Brigham Young...

TWO WAYS TO SLASH SOLAR COSTS by Ben Daviss One thing keeping the price of solar energy installations high is “soft costs” – not the price of the hardware or labor, but an installer’s time and trouble navigating the permitting processes, inspections, and connecting renewable energy systems to the local utility company’s grid. This time-consuming...

For the past two days, it was all the news. Nothing else in the world counts. These are the major headlines on 24 September 2019: “Impeachment inquiry is coming” – CNN “Pelosi Plans Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump”– The New York Times “Trump Ukraine call: Democratic calls for impeachment grow” – BBC “Pelosi hints at...

Last week was a trip back to the good old days of the Panic of ‘08. The New York Federal Reserve Bank injected $203 billion into the U.S. financial system to alleviate funding pressures caused by a sudden scarcity of cash in the “repo market.” It was the largest monetary methadone injection of this scale...

The major global news story remains the tensions in the Middle East following Houthi drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil processing facility, the world’s largest, and its oil field, which knocked out half of Saudi’s production.  The Houthis in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. They said it’s in retaliation against Saudi Arabia who launched...

In today’s hand-held world of reading soundbites, it’s important to read more deeply into the story if you want to understand how the current events form future trends. The examples of how the west has learned to hate/blame Iran is again made clear with this headline in last week’s The Wall Street Journal: “Saudi Attack...

by Ben Daviss The world uses an estimated one million plastic bottles a minute, most of which are thrown away. But, as Canadian start-up JD Composites is showing, people could live in them instead. On the Nova Scotia coast, the company has built a 2,000-square-foot house out of 612,000 used plastic bottles. A European processor...

It’s over. The politicians of both parties, the Dumbocrap’s and Repulsivkin’s mass murder killing spree that spent trillions has destroyed America. A Trend Vision 2020 Freak Show. From Harry “Little Haberdasher” Truman who gave us the CIA and the murderous losing Korean War to Donald “Locked and Loaded” Trump, America’s presidents have waged wars in...