Trend Tracking The System to Profit from Today's Trends

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ISBN: 9780446392877 | 0446392871
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1991

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Trend Trracking ... will enable you to turn today's information explosion into personal profit. In this invaluable book, pioneer trends analyst Gerald Celente provides you with a powerful tool--the Globalnomic system--previously available only to clients of the prestigious Socio-Economic Research Institute. Celente's easy-to-follow techniques will teach you to monitor current events that form future trends, make connections between seemingly unrelated fields...and gain by your findings. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
How to Profit From Tracking Trends	p. 1
Looking Ahead	p. 3
Tracking Trends	p. 3
Proacting versus Reacting	p. 4
The Rearview Mirror	p. 5
The Fall of the Shah	p. 6
The Crash of '87	p. 8
The Baby Boomers	p. 9
Identifying Trends	p. 11
Where Trends Come From	p. 11
Seeing Trends	p. 13
Trends versus Fads	p. 14
The Yuppie Craze	p. 14
The Globalnomic System	p. 16
Developing a System	p. 19
Getting Information	p. 19
Headline News and Junk News	p. 20
The Basic Requirements	p. 22
Selecting Fields	p. 22
Setting Up Files	p. 23
What to Read	p. 25
How to Read a Newspaper	p. 27
What about TV?	p. 30
Profiting	p. 31
The Iran Crisis	p. 31
Mario Who?	p. 32
Buy American	p. 33
Sports and Hobbies	p. 34
Business News	p. 35
The Snack Food Industry	p. 35
The Major Trends Shaping Our Future	p. 39
The Media	p. 41
Concentration	p. 42
Government Control	p. 43
Attitude toward Public	p. 44
News as Entertainment	p. 45
Homogenization	p. 47
Labeling	p. 49
Historical Engineering	p. 50
The Future of TV	p. 51
Politics	p. 53
Political Solutions	p. 54
The Savings and Loan Crisis	p. 55
Media Campaigns	p. 58
Special Interests	p. 61
The Revolving Door	p. 62
Corruption	p. 64
Breakdown of System	p. 65
Catalyst for Change	p. 68
The Family	p. 70
Working Mothers	p. 72
The Single-Parent Family	p. 72
Child Care	p. 73
Latchkey Children	p. 75
Teenage Problems	p. 76
Back to the Family	p. 77
Grandmother	p. 78
Care for the Elderly	p. 80
The Homeless	p. 83
Education	p. 85
In Loco Parentis	p. 86
The Teaching Crisis	p. 87
Misplaced Priorities	p. 88
Dropouts	p. 89
Illiteracy	p. 90
The Underclass	p. 91
The Needs of Our Society	p. 92
Competitiveness	p. 93
Reform in the 1990s	p. 95
Health	p. 99
Symptom Relief	p. 101
The Diet Connection	p. 103
Government Standards	p. 104
Junk Food	p. 106
Artificial Food	p. 107
Food Contamination	p. 109
The New Black Plague	p. 110
Natural Foods	p. 112
Alternative Medicine	p. 113
The Environment	p. 115
Garbage	p. 116
Toxic Waste	p. 118
Routine Emissions	p. 119
Leaks and Spills	p. 120
Chemical Warfare	p. 121
Air Pollution	p. 124
Water Contamination	p. 125
The Water Shortage	p. 126
Acid Rain	p. 127
The Greenhouse Effect	p. 129
The Ozone Layer	p. 131
A Major Issue	p. 132
The Military	p. 135
The Military Buildup	p. 136
Steroid Strength	p. 137
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse	p. 139
Pentagon, Inc.	p. 143
Cutting Defense	p. 144
The Economy	p. 147
Fighting Inflation	p. 148
Fiscal Stimulus	p. 149
The Trade Deficit	p. 150
Devaluation	p. 151
The Budget Deficit	p. 153
A Debtor Nation	p. 154
The Crash of 1987	p. 155
Maintaining the Illusion	p. 161
Facing Reality	p. 164
The World	p. 167
Away from Ideology	p. 168
Demilitarization	p. 169
The End of the Cold War	p. 171
Our Loss of Dominance	p. 172
1992	p. 173
The Global Market	p. 176
The Ultimate Issue	p. 178
Strategies for Profit	p. 181
Corporate Strategies	p. 183
The Media	p. 184
Politics	p. 186
The Family	p. 188
Education	p. 191
Health	p. 192
The Environment	p. 195
The Military	p. 198
The Economy	p. 199
The World	p. 202
Personal Strategies	p. 205
Finding a Job	p. 206
Buying a House	p. 209
Starting a Business	p. 211
Investing	p. 213
Redefining Profits	p. 215
You Have the Power	p. 216
Directories	p. 217
A Directory of Profit Opportunities	p. 219
A Directory of Information Sources	p. 259
Notes	p. 271
Index	p. 291
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