A Defense Department study found nearly 30 percent of American troops are overweight. While the President throws out one-liners of being “locked and loaded,” and “We are by far the strongest military in the world,” America’s military happens to be the fattest in the world. Beyond overweight, studies found that a shocking 22 percent of...
India Playing “A Most Dangerous Game” Tensions between India and Pakistan continue to heat following India’s revocation of Kashmir’s special independent status as guaranteed in India’s constitution. This unprecedented move has worsened India’s long-time conflict with neighboring Pakistan over the autonomy of the Kashmir region, which lies between the two nuclear powers. For many living...
by Ben Daviss Conventional wisdom says that a little exercise at a time isn’t as good as long bouts on the treadmill or in the weight room. But your brain may disagree. Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University worked with mice to try to figure out if exercise affected the brain directly or only...
by Ben Daviss When tomorrow’s electric utilities need to expand generating capacity, they won’t think about spending billions on a new central station. They’ll just ask owners of Tesla home power batteries to let them in. National Grid, which supplies electricity in Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island is trying out the idea with its...
The mission of The Trends Research Institute is to compile and analyze the hard facts and essential current event dynamics forming future trends. Don’t wait for the “official” word. For them, the future is off limits. Prepare-Prevail-Prosper now. As the facts prove, I’m on record as the first to forecast the 1987 stock market crash....
From corporate profits, tax revenue, rail freight, property sales, and other economic measures, the world’s largest economy is much weaker than the “official” government data. For example, according to various studies, China’s unemployment rate is 5.3 percent, not the lower 4 percent range the government has been putting out. Indeed, as goes China, so too...
More evidence the Global Slowdown is speeding up. The Munich-based think tank Ifo has warned, “the German economy is at risk of falling into recession” Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, warned the chances of a global slowdown have gone up and downside risks have increased. Add...
While much of the world is experiencing declining growth, the U.S. economy, despite its Purchasing Managers index (PMI) hitting a ten year low in August, the low unemployment rate has helped boost retail sales… but not enough to stop the overall retail worries. Retail bankruptcies rose sharply, with more expected in the second half of...
The biggest U.S. banks are already discussing additional fees and charges as they prepare for interest rates to go to zero or lower. Just a year ago the Federal Reserve was raising rates. Top banksters including Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Presstitute’s favorite economic “experts” were predicting rates would continue...
It’s the 21st century human condition. From top to bottom, it’s the sign of the times. Watch, look and listen. It’s a global freak show of world leaders. Red Carpets, soldiers dressed in military drag saluting as the band plays on for the political nobility walking down the aisle. And as socioeconomic and geopolitical conditions...