Nasdaq is currently working out regulatory clearances in order to offer crypto custody services. That’s according to a 24 March Bloomberg report.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In February we warned Trends Journal subscribers to prepare for “March Economic and Equity Market Madness.” We also provided proactive measures to consider taking.
FED RAISES KEY RATE A QUARTER POINT: WHAT’S NEXT?
The U.S. Federal Reserve added a quarter point to its key interest rate last week, lifting the yield it pays on deposits to 4.75 percent and the rate it charges borrowing banks to 5 percent.
CENTRAL BANKS MUST NOW HYPERINFLATE, AND YOU WILL PAY FOR IT
For those of you who may not know, I am going to let you in on a nasty secret. THE POWER OF ANY GIVEN CENTRAL BANK RESIDES IN ONLY ONE THING, AND ONE THING ONLY… ITS ABILITY TO INFLATE.
WHAT AI CAN’T KNOW, MAY JUST KILL YOU
While there’s still time, humans would do well to contemplate worst case scenarios of creating AI which can outdo humans in every respect.
BIDEN PROMISED TO DESTROY NORD STREAM 2 PIPELINE: VIDEO PROVES IT
About three weeks before Russian tanks began to move into Ukraine last year, President Joe Biden held a news conference in Washington with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and said—in no uncertain terms—that the first casualty of the war would be the Nord Stream pipeline.
SPOTLIGHT ON NEW WORLD DISORDER TOP TREND
One of our Top Trends for 2020 was New World Disorder. Long forgotten are the facts that back in 2019 people across the globe were taking to the streets in protest of government corruption, crime, violence, and the decline and/or lack of basic living standards.
Economy
SPECIAL UPDATE: THE BIG BANKSTER BUST
While the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have vowed to do all it takes to prevent a banking crisis, there are fears of a bad situation becoming much worse.
LAGARDE WARNS OF WAGE-PRICE “TIT-FOR-TAT DYNAMIC”
Europe risks a “tit-for-tat dynamic” between workers and employers as each pushes for higher incomes to escape inflation’s bite, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB) warned at a German financial conference last week.
BUNDESBANK BOSS SAYS ECB MUST KEEP RAISING INTEREST RATES
The European Central Bank (ECB) must remain “stubborn” and continue to raise its interest rates to bring inflation to heel, Joachim Nagel, president of Germany’s Bundesbank and Europe’s chief rate hawk, said in a public statement after the bank bumped its rate by a half-point on 16 March.
Geopolitics
ISRAEL BLAMED FOR ANOTHER ATTACK ON SYRIAN AIRPORT
Another day, another Israeli bomb explodes on a civilian target in Syria.
WAR-MONGERS IN SENATE EASILY KILL EFFORT TO END 2001 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE USED TO JUSTIFY WARS
Sen. Rand Paul’s effort to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force was easily rejected by the war-mongers in the Senate.
SPOTLIGHT ON NEW WORLD DISORDER TOP TREND
One of our Top Trends for 2020 was New World Disorder. Long forgotten are the facts that back in 2019 people across the globe were taking to the streets in protest of government corruption, crime, violence, and the decline and/or lack of basic living standards.
Top Trends 2023
TOP TREND 2023: CELENTE’S HOMELESS SOLUTION
Homelessness is still a top concern in cities across the U.S., and with poverty, crime and government corruption accelerating across the planet, waves of immigrants flooding into safe-haven nations has—and will—make the homeless crisis worsen.
TOP TREND 2023: ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT—NEW POLITICAL PARTIES
Get ready for new anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-immigration, anti-tax political parties to spring up across the globe.
TOP TREND 2023: ANTI-IMMIGRATION
Inflationary pressures, declining economies across the globe, lack of basic living standards... topped off by an expanding war in Ukraine will lead to more people fleeing impoverished countries for Europe and the U.S., which will, in turn, result in the continued growth of anti-immigration policies and movements in the West.
Hi-Tech Science
INTRODUCING THE OXYGEN-ION BATTERY
Engineers at the Vienna University of Technology have created a battery that needs no hard-to-come-by materials, uses no nickel or cobalt, can’t catch fire, and can be regenerated when the performance begins to degrade with time.
ENGINEERED MOLECULES KILL CANCER
Immunotherapy is cancer treatment’s new go-to remedy. Technicians take white blood cells from a patient—the “killer T cells” of the immune system —isolate the ones best suited to fight the patient’s form of cancer, then genetically engineer them to be “super T cells” able to overcome cancer’s defenses.
ROBOTS THAT READ YOUR MIND
Working with the Australian army, researchers at the University of Technology at Sydney have developed a way for humans to control robots through brainwaves.