The three-word sentence that is everywhere in the United States In September I made a short trip to Chicago and this sentence was everywhere. I stayed in a hotel in the River North neighborhood, a short walk from Michigan Avenue and the surrounding shopping district. [For those that don’t know Chicago, Michigan Avenue is Chicago’s […]
The last five months, since America and the world entered into a lock down to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, have been completely unique and devastating. It is time to look back at the forecasts I made during 2020 to see not just what was correct, but to alter and update forecasts as […]
The magnitude and probable consequences of this gargantuan black swan event will be significant and numerous. Realizations, insights, revelations, probabilities, and forecasts keep coming to me as this all sinks in. Here are just some of what may lie ahead both in the near term, and more significantly in the long term. Each of these […]
[Note to readers: I am deep in writing a trilogy of eBooks with a tight deadline. So I have decided to bring back some columns from the past, that many recent new subscribers might not have seen. Since I am a futurist, I am called upon to make forecasts. My firm commitment is to be […]
In the last 25 years global wealth inequality has increased to historic levels. Recent articles suggest that we have returned to 1920s era levels. Basic history knowledge informs us what happened at the end of the 1920s in October 1929. The last 40 years has been very good to the top 1%, .01% and the […]
Those who are regular readers of mine and those who have heard me speak over the last year, know that I fully anticipate some economic disruption to occur in 2019. In the first column I published about this impending event in October 2017 I stated that I am using the word disruption instead of such […]
In my last column here, I suggested that there will likely be some kind of economic disruption between the 4th quarter of 2018 and the 4th quarter of 2019. The column triggered some interesting reactions. A number of people pushed back, as they feel that we are in a great economic time with growth, profits […]
[Note: much of this column was recently published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune] I am not a financial adviser nor an economist. I do not offer investment advice. I am instead very happy to be a futurist whose value is to forecast the future accurately up to five years out and directionally 10 to 15 years […]
