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Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009

By Glen Hiemstra, March 31, 2009 The world economy, mired in recession, will reach a turn-around point sooner than expected. However, anyone waiting to get back to doing what they were doing before the recession will be disappointed. As I said in my first speech this year, on January 8, 2009, to the Cobalt company, [...]

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65,000 is a lot for one day

Readers know that I am pretty relentless in finding how and why things are going to work in the future. Current realties make that a challenge. Today’s announcement by Caterpillar, Home Depot, Sprint, Texas Instruments, and others of total job cuts, just today, Monday, of 65,000 is stark. It means that time grows shorter by [...]

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Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009

Outlook 2009 Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant. This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why. Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment Economy: When I [...]

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Videos by Futurist.com

The Future. It is mysterious, looming, full of possibility. To understand the future, and to create it, we ask three questions: What is probable? What is possible? What is preferred? Explore the future in these Video Features and Interviews Produced by Futurist.com on a range of future topics. Introduction to Futurist.com – The Company Future [...]

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