The Continuing Crisis in Sino-American Relations
The United States and China are running a “super-power marathon” that may last a century. However, both history...

The Great 2020s Equity Opportunity
We’re immersed in one of history’s most complex investment environments. In many places, a large segment of the...

Putting the Great Stagnation Behind Us
Like similar Transition periods before it, the interval between the Installation Phase of the Digital Revolution and...

The Tumultuous Birth of Our New Golden Age
Here we are, roughly four years into the Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution. Like the previous...


Can America’s Dying Cities Be Saved?
published on: Nov 15, 2020
Many of America’s cities are rapidly “dying,” as indicated by rising poverty, exploding violence, de facto insolvency, and diminishing...

Closing the Technological Iron Curtain
published on: Aug 15, 2020
China has used U.S. capital and intellectual property to transform itself into the 21st Century’s most serious threat to American interests. As a...

Addressing the Coming Wave of State Insolvency
published on: Jun 15, 2020
In the midst of multi-faceted disruptions, states that have poorly managed their finances for decades are now facing insolvency. What are their...

The Socio-Economic Crisis Behind the Second...
published on: Jun 15, 2020
As previously discussed in Trends, the American Dream is in trouble. Long-simmering discontent among "those who have been left behind" has broken...

China Pays the Price for Its “Criminal...
published on: Apr 15, 2020
China’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak appears responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths around the world, as well as...

Energy War 2020
published on: Mar 15, 2020
In the face of the demand-destroying COVID19 crisis, an alliance of OPEC members plus Russia is making efforts to destroy the U.S. fracking...

The Sino-American Decoupling Process
published on: Mar 15, 2020
Until the Trump Administration confronted China in 2017, multiple U.S. administrations had fundamentally misread the pathway the People’s Republic...

Helping Everyone Join America’s Jobs Revolution
published on: Feb 15, 2020
For the first time in living memory, the United States has a genuine shortage of workers. How will we address this problem? What are the...

Riding the Secular Bull Into the 2030s
published on: Feb 15, 2020
The Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution is upon us. Perhaps, the greatest opportunity created by this revolution will be the great...

The Anglosphere Rises
published on: Jan 15, 2020
Since the 16th century, the English-speaking nations have been uniquely innovative, productive, and influential. As such, they’ve been at the...

Crossing the Dematerialization Frontier
published on: Jan 15, 2020
Since at least 1970, it’s been widely believed that accelerating economic growth and population growth would exhaust the Earth’s physical...

Innovation-Driven Dis-Inflation Distorts...
published on: Dec 15, 2019
While most economists spend a lot of time collecting and analyzing inflation, productivity, and income growth data, a growing number of experts...

Managing a Faltering China
published on: Nov 15, 2019
Conventional wisdom still believes that China is on its way to eclipsing the United States and becoming the dominant superpower of the 21st...

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...

Eliminating Poverty and Maximizing Happiness
published on: Jul 15, 2019
Despite spending nearly $24 trillion in public funds fighting the War on Poverty, poverty is still a widespread problem in the United States. What...

Degree Inflation Undermines U.S....
published on: Jul 15, 2019
Increasingly a baccalaureate degree has become a requirement for more and more jobs, regardless of whether anything learned in college enhances the...