“Cover what matters in people’s lives and provide them the facts they need to make better decisions” ~Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler on covering President Trump the Reuters way

The tensions between the corporate media and the incoming administration were a distraction from the real developments underway during the 1st Quarter of 2017. The implications of the financial coup d’etat for retirees are  more apparent, as are the impacts on employment and household finances of the shift from Global 2.0 to Global 3.0.

THE ECONOMY & FINANCIAL MARKETS

I. Global 2.0: From Slow Burn to Pressure Cooker

A. Controlled Demolitions Accelerate

Pension Funds:

Insurance Companies:

Bankruptcies and Failures:

B. The Debt Growth Model is Dying

The War on Cash:

Davos:

Europe:

US:

India:

China:

The End of the Bond Bull:

Equity Bull Markets:

Negative Interest Rates Turn to Rising Interest Rates:

US Dollar:

The Future of the Euro:

Inflation:

US Budget Hot Potato:

II. Inside the Pressure Cooker: Will We Expand or Shrink the Pie?

A. Return on Investment to Taxpayers: Will It Turn Positive Or More Negative?

Productivity Growth: Labor vs. Human Productivity:

B. Piratization: Could the Rape of Russia Happen Here?

C. National Security State Costs Out of Control

D. More Cut & Run

E. Corruption: Out of Control

Pedophilia & Control Files:

Voter Fraud:

F. Decentralization: Can We Re-Localize? Can It Work?

G. Equity Creation Greater than Controlled Demolitions?

H. Covert Cash Flows: Black Budget, Secret Dividends

III. Global 3.0 Rising

A. Space

B. Automation

C. 5G is Coming

D. Surveillance Capitalism

IV. How Will Investors Handle This Much Uncertainty?

A. The Rise of Index Funds

B. Volatility

GEOPOLITICS

I. Free Speech & Corporate Media Meltdown

II. A New Administration: The First 100 Days

See the “Clash of Civilizations” Section

Energy

Governance Structures (Includes Freezes on Hiring)

Budget

Infrastructure

Federal Reserve & Financial System

Obama Care/Health

Lobbying

Military Modernization/Defense

Intelligence Agency Modernization and Reform

Immigration/Wall

Crime

Education/Common Core

Other

ISIS

III. The Shift to the Multipolar World

A. The Big Picture:

B. What’s Next for the EU?

C. Growth on the Silk Road

D. The US China Re-balancing and the South China Sea

E. The Beaten Path to Antarctica

IV. The Deep State Grows More Evident

The US Presidential Election:

V. Migration and Immigration

G-7 Backlash:

Long-Term Trends: Migration Potential From Africa and Middle East:

CULTURE

I. Who Will Nourish – Rebuild the Field?

II. Embracing Complexity & Uncertainty:

III. Need for Revival of the Artist & Scholar

IV. Are We Sovereign?

A. Mind Control:

B. Transhumanism:

C. Microchips:

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

I. Cybersecurity

A. Ain’t No Such Thing – Zero Integrity Systems

B. IOT:

C. Quantum Computing:

D. Digital WW III

II. Health Freedom

Food and Water

A. Vaccines

B. EMF Radiation

III. Making Robots Human; Making Humans Robotic

IV. Environmental Stress

V. CERN & Particle Accelerators

 VI. Space: Here We Go!

VIII The Future of Energy

A. Nuclear Fusion & Breakthrough Energy

B. Renewables Growth

C. Coal – What’s Next in US, India and China?

THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

INSPIRATION