Closing the Technological Iron Curtain
China has used U.S. capital and intellectual property to transform itself into the 21st Century’s most serious...
Addressing the Coming Wave of State Insolvency
In the midst of multi-faceted disruptions, states that have poorly managed their finances for decades are now facing...
The Socio-Economic Crisis Behind the Second...
As previously discussed in Trends, the American Dream is in trouble. Long-simmering discontent among "those who have...
China Pays the Price for Its “Criminal...
China’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak appears responsible for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths...
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...
Gaming the Sino-American Trade-War
published on: Jun 15, 2019
While developments in the Middle East, Korea and Europe get a lot of attention, the economic and geo-political struggle between the United States and...
China’s Narrow Path to 21st Century Dominance
published on: May 15, 2019
5G technology is just one of many battlefields on which the U.S. and China now struggle for supremacy. In every area from defense to technology to...
The Opportunity and Threat of Marijuana...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
Annual global revenues for the legal marijuana industry may eventually rise to between $150-and-$500 billion, generating enormous tax revenues. As...
Boomers are the Economy’s “Energizer...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
The baby boomers have shaped every era of their lives and the Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution will be no different. What will...
Crisis for the Russian Bear
published on: Feb 15, 2019
Nearly thirty year ago, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Two yearsw later, on Dec 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the...
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