The idea is as simple as it is profound: A city earmarks a portion of its planned capital budget to be spent by residents. Anyone can suggest an idea for the money’s use, which is then vetted for practicality and cost. Surviving proposals are subject to a public vote; the top vote-getters are included in...
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Are you listening?
Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live each Wednesday at 11 a.m. Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen 24/7 by visiting Trendsresearch.com and...
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Gene reverses aging?
A gene with the unappealing name of “Nanog” may be the key to reversing aging. At the University of Buffalo, scientists have found a way to use the gene to kick-start dormant processes in cells that can prevent clogged arteries, brittle bones and other markers of old age. Every part of our bodies holds adult...
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Making dirty water drinkable
With clean water becoming increasingly scarce around the world, ways to purify dirty water become urgent. Now we have a new one that’s cheap, simple and quick. The process, created by scientists at Washington University, uses a two-layer foam that floats on water. The bottom layer is cellulose produced by bacteria; the top sheet is...
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Top Trends of 2016 update
The Summer 2016 Trends Journal examines the Trends Research Institute’s Top Trends of 2016 at mid-year, providing forecasts in economics, geopolitics, business and investment, aging and technology. Also featured is powerful commentary by Gerald Celente on the greater trend lines behind the Brexit vote and what it could mean to Direct Democracy movements worldwide. Also,...
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People Power: The New World Order
By Gerald Celente PUBLISHER Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age and die. The People Power trend, while at a ripe old age in nations such as Switzerland — one of the wealthiest, most democratic countries in the world where its people vote on issues that affect their lives and livelihoods, and not...
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The Last World War
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 forecast: With each passing day, the drums of war beat louder and the list of countries joining the march to war grows longer. If trend lines drawn since the War on Terror launched by US President George W. Bush following 9/11 are not reversed, World War III will not only...
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Trend Forecast
In its steady march to war across the globe that has cost trillions and killed millions, despite its overwhelming superior military might, America has not won a war since World War II. Unable to defeat poor, ill-equipped, smaller nations or even tiny terror groups, or bring stability (i.e., freedom and democracy) to nations it has...
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Global Recession
TOP TREND: MID-YEAR UPDATE 2016 FORECAST: 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.”...
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Trendpost
With banks’ earnings and shares sinking worldwide, and nations across the globe trending among depression, recession, stagnation and tepid Gross Domestic Product growth, the US Federal Reserve, which had signaled four interest-rate hikes for 2016 after raising rates 25 basis points in December, is caught in an interest-rate trap. Should the Fed raise rates, emerging...