Can America’s Dying Cities Be Saved?
Many of America’s cities are rapidly “dying,” as indicated by rising poverty, exploding violence, de facto...

Palestine and the Middle Eastern Realignment
Few people fully appreciate the game-changing impact of the recent normalization of relations between Israel and the...

China’s Unprecedented Demographic Crisis
Over the past 40 years, China has benefited from the greatest economic rise is human history. When it emerged onto...

Coping with an Aging Society
Americans 65 and older are now 16% of the population and will make up 21% by 2035. At that point, they will...


The Rise of the New American Community
published on: May 15, 2020
The COVID19 crisis has given workers an opportunity to reevaluate where they live and work. Why are Americans suddenly considering in masse...

Evolving U.S. Demographic Challenges
published on: Jan 15, 2020
The U.S. population is growing at a very slow pace and the working-age population is growing even slower. What’s causing this phenomenon? What...

America’s Great Middle-Class Boom Has Begun
published on: Nov 15, 2019
As Professor Carlota Perez forecast two decades ago, the tumultuous “transition phase” of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution is now being...

Great Power Demographics
published on: Sep 15, 2019
As Trends subscribers know, the future is determined by trends in demography, technology, and human behavior. Of these three, demography is the...

The New Reality of Sino-American Relations
published on: Sep 15, 2019
For the past 25 years, the United States has executed a strategy based on the idea that a combination of persistent engagement and prudent hedging...

The Relationship Between Urban Density and...
published on: Jul 15, 2019
As population has migrated from “rural” to “urban” locations, affluence has also risen. What is the relationship between population density...

America’s Emerging Job Imperative
published on: Jan 15, 2019
As discussed in prior issues, America is at a tipping point, somewhat analogous to those we faced during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and...

The Brave New World Comes to California
published on: Nov 15, 2018
Whether you compare it to Huxley’s Brave New World or an info-tech reinterpretation of Medieval Europe or the Antebellum South, the dysfunctional...

Embracing MOOCs Will Close the Skills Gap
published on: May 15, 2018
Unemployment is at record lows, and skilled jobs are increasingly going unfilled. Bain & Company estimates that between now and 2030, between $5...

Millennials find a Home
published on: Apr 15, 2018
Millennials are getting a late start in life because of factors beyond their control, just like the Greatest Generation. How has this influenced the...

The Geo-demography of America’s NEW Economic...
published on: Feb 15, 2018
The big winners of the so-called “Installation Phase” of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution were the makers of the core technology and their...

The power of Generational Cycles
published on: Jan 15, 2018
Analyzing trends requires an understanding of how demography, technology and human behavior interact to shape our constantly evolving economy. At...

Making the Most of America’s Aging...
published on: Jun 24, 2017
America’s global military, economic, and political leadership depends on being the world’s foremost source of scientific and technological...

Generation Z Gets Serious About Consumption
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Just when marketers were beginning to understand Millennials, a whole new set of consumers is gaining increased buying power. For over a decade,...

Millennials Are Poised to Super-Charge Growth
published on: Mar 15, 2017
Beginning in 1982, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose more than 1,100 percent over the next 18 years. A big factor driving this explosion...

The Demographic Revolution that Wasn't
published on: Feb 25, 2017
Politicians relying on immigration to shift America’s demographic and political center in their direction suffered a train wreck of epic proportion...