Every day, we post links to stories in our News Trends & Stories section. Analyzing this flow provides intelligence about the deeper news. Here are the trends we are tracking for 3rd Quarter 2019.
ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
I. Global 2.0: Real Burn
A. Controlled Demolitions Accelerate
- Pension Funds
- Entitlements
- Bankruptcies
- Piratization and Thermal & Weather Warfare
- Disintermediation in Retail
- Farmageddon
- FASAB 56- Is Asset Stripping Underway?
B. Currency, Liquidity & Trade Wars
- War on Cash
- Cryptocurrency
- Precious Metals
- US-China Trade War
- China, Russia, and the Build-out of Global Liquidity
- Increased Sanctions and Alternative to SWIFT System
- The Future of the Euro
- Fed & ECB: Interest Rate and Bond Squeeze
C. The Debt Growth Model- Weaponized as Central Bank Dependency Increases
- Bonds and Interest Rates
- Equity Public and Private
- Commodities
- U.S. Dollar
- U.S. Budget: Military Expense, Disaster Recovery & Retirement
- U.S. Debt & Interest Payments Accelerating
- Transition from Quantitative Easing
- Demand for capital: Treasury Markets & Corporate Maturities
- NDI Waiver, FASAB 56 and no Mark to Market: Stock and Bond Markets Go Dark
- Inflation and Deflation
- Land and Real Estate Ownership
- State and Local Finances
- U.S. Bear Trap in Emerging Markets
- Mortgage Fraud & “Natural Disasters”
D. Financial Controls
E. Tax Wars and Offshore Havens
F. Impact of Environmental Risks and Debasement
G. Student Loan & Consumer Debt
H. Housing Markets
II. Global 3.0 Rising
A. Reshoring to North America
B. Robotics, Drones, Genetics and Automation
C. Explosion in Material Science
D. Surveillance Capitalism
E. Amazon, Microsoft, Israel & the Reengineering of the US Government
F. Global Purges
G. Technocracy Rising
H. Opportunity Zones
I. Will Breakthrough Energy Technologies Come Through?
J. Investment Flows into the Space-Based Economy
III. How Will Investors Handle the Transition?
A. Growth of ESG Screening
B. Technocracy: Allocation without Markets and a Real Pricing Mechanism
C. FASAB 56 -The Cost of Secrecy
D. FASAB 56 – Will Investors Play
IV. Inside the Pressure Cooker: Will We Expand or Shrink the Pie?
A. Return on Investment to Taxpayers Goes More Negative?
B. Response to Missing Money: DOD Audit, FASB Policy
C. Piratization: Will the Rape of Russia Happen Here? A Domestic Phoenix Program + AI Invasion?
D. Weather Warfare, Fires, and False Flags
E. Equity Creation: Could Breakthrough Energy Create Equity Greater than Controlled Demolitions?
F. Addictions to War, Secrecy & Privilege
G. Global Slowdown + Peak Everything
GEOPOLITICS
I. US Governance and Sovereignty
A. Bretton Woods System Unravels
B. State and Local Officials Take Action
C. Fed Laws Override Local: 5G, Weaponized Drug Addicted Homeless Populations
D. Con-Con Con and Efforts to Shred the Constitution
E. Decentralization: Can We Relocalize?
F. Individual and National Sovereignty
G. Voter Fraud
H. The Cost of Secrecy
I. Dual Citizenship of Politicans/Required Pledges
II. The AI Invasion
A. Growth of AI – AI Superpowers Face off
B. Net Neutrality
C. 5G & Surveilance
D. Piratization
E. AI and the Sheriff of Nottingham
F. Weapons of Math Destruction
G. 325 Million Targeted Individuals Divided into Two Groups
H. Free Speech and Corporate & Social Media Meltdown
III. The Trump Administration: The Third Year
A. Budget, FASAB 56 Missing Money; Debt Acceleration
B. Federal Reserve and Financial System
C. Space Force
D. Military Modernization/Defense
E. Swamp Drama & the Rise of the Bushies
F. Justice Post Mueller: Barr Investigates Political Use of NSA & DOJ
G. Trade and Tariffs
H. The Neocon Problem
I. The Loony Progressive Problem
J. The Deep State in Control
K. The 2020 Campaign
L. Push for Piratization
M. Jedi Contract
N. Team Turnover
O. Social Security & Retirement
P. Global Brand Deterioration
Trump Report Card
IV. The Shift to a Multipolar World
A. The Big Picture
- Eurasia & the Silk Road
- Australia’s Leadership Role
- Africa: Resource Rush
- The War in the South China Sea
- MAGA: Fortress America
- Latin America & the War to Control Venezuala and Cuba
- Vatican Struggles
- Europe: European Elections – Will the EU Come Apart or Nationalize?
- Gobal Pushback of the Working People
- Anglo-American Alliance – How Will Brexit Happen
- US-China Rebalance and the Trade Wars
- Iran and the Push for War
- India: A Hindu Nation – Targeting of Moslem Populations
- Hot Spots
B. Global Powwows
C. Global Digital Agreements
D. Technocracy – will Technology Continue to Centralize Control in a Multipolar World?
E. The Rise of the Asian Consumer
F. The Future of the “Midianite Thing”
G: The US Future: Rape of Russia or Cultural Revolution?
V. The Deep State and National Security Public-Private Control
A. The Breakaway Civilization
B. The Big Investment Pools & Investors
C. FASAB 56: Secret Money for Secret Armies
D. The Cost of Monopoly
VI. Migration and Immigration
A. North America
B. Asia
C. Europe