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Over the past decade, while wages have shown modest spikes, mostly benefitting higher-pay categories, the increases have barely kept pace with inflation, essentially wiping out any net gains in workers’ take-home pay. In fact, when factoring inflation, real average wages have about the same purchasing power today as they did 40 years ago, The numbers...

As we have long forecast, the higher U.S. interest rates rise, the lower gold goes. The stronger the dollar becomes, the lower gold goes. It’s a simple equation. The higher rates increase, they boost the dollar and push up U.S. Treasury yields, making gold a less attractive investment since it does not bear interest. And...

Equity markets are manipulated. The facts show, when they get out of control, governments and central banksters rush in and rescue them. The United States has its Plunge Protection Team. By executive order by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, the PPT “Working Group” was formed to keep Congress and the White House informed of critical...

Fear is in the air. It’s a freak show, and everyone with a half a brain and an open heart knows it. And in the U.S., where they’re continually bragging about being number 1, “The Presidential Reality Show®,” starring Reality Show Champion, Donald Trump, is the greatest show on earth and indeed number 1 in...

The day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow mainstream media obsessive coverage of the apparent murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is, from our trend-tracking perspective, a despicable example of medias’ self-driven priorities at the expense of covering real, lasting examples of innocents being slaughtered, murdered, maimed and starved to death. Saudi Arabian officials are being accused...

The media censorship trend that accelerated with the multi-platform shutdown of Alex Jones in the summer of 2018 and his media operation INFOWARS has erupted into an unprecedented, full scale assault on First Amendment rights on the internet. Barely getting attention, and certainly not stirring the outrage it deserves, Facebook has undertaken a massive purge...

Whether to invest, or not. Sell or hold. Trends Journal subscribers are asking a lot of questions about the future of cryptocurrencies. For many, this turbulent year signaled the wild ride is over. For others, this has been a transitional year, a year in which government interventions, new regulations and heightened scrutiny, as well as...

The kind of money that fueled explosive growth in 2017 was marked heavily by buyers’ fears of missing out, and the belief they were buying near sure-thing lottery tickets, without a great deal of knowledge as to what they were buying into beyond superficial talking points. With the public rushing into what they believed was...

Q&A with Jonathan Cho continued It’s important to distinguish digital currencies in their current form from digital currencies as an overall phenomenon. The overall phenomenon is going to trend up, but the current incarnation is unlikely to. The first cellphones were large, clunky, and could only do a fraction of what cellphones can do today....

Q&A with Jonathan Cho continued All markets are the same, in that they move in similar ways. They only really differ in the magnitude of the peaks and valleys that form, and in minor differences in the time durations of their respective bull and bear market cycles. The comparison I made in prior articles could...