Tag Archives: Trends

Trend Alert: Neo-Survivalism

“In 2010, survivalism will go mainstream.  Unemployed or fearing it, foreclosed or nearing it, pensions lost and savings gone, all sorts of folk who once believed in the system have lost their faith.  Motivated not by worst-case scenario fears but … Continue reading

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Trend Alert: Not Made In China

  “A Buy Local/My Country First backlash will be the first sign of what we forecast will become a massive, circle-the-wagons movement. We forecast a Not Made in China consumer crusade that will spread among developed nations, leading to trade … Continue reading

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Trend Alert: Neo-Survivalism

“In 2010, survivalism will go mainstream.  Unemployed or fearing it, foreclosed or nearing it, pensions lost and savings gone, all sorts of folk who once believed in the system have lost their faith.  Motivated not by worst-case scenario fears but … Continue reading

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Trend Alert: Americans Going Smaller

Trends Research Institutes predicts Americans will go smaller in everything: "About two-thirds of Americans are Too Big (TB) for their own good and everyone else’s. We forecast a massed revulsion for TB in all its manifestations – obesity is only … Continue reading

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