he is publisher of the respected trends journal. first, boomers. culture always seems dominant but, step back kids, there's a boomer renaissance arriving. >>yeah there is. the boomers are being forced into a new reality. they don't have the pensions and benefits their parents once had. so now they have to find jobs because they are losing their old ones. what do they do? i have a friend right over here---stanley blum. he's 94 years old. he began to paint and write at 80 years old. he said to me, "i used to be a shoe salesman. now i write books and i paint and i'm doing better than i ever did before. i've taken all that knowledge that i've learned over life and put it in a productive way." so there is a lot of opportunity once you free yourself from bounds you think you have that you may really not have. >>sounds liberating. let's talk about seniors now specifically. you just mentioned mr. blum but there is a surprising trend underway. the social media trend has not passed them by. >>that's right. look at aarp. that again is for another generation.

fourteen artie's on a stasia churkin i sat down with gerald cilento he's the publisher of the trends journal and the founder of the trends research institute take a look we're sitting down with trans caster gerald for leonti to discuss the year ahead twenty fourteen what lays ahead socially economically politically jerrold thank you very much for having us today well you are saying in your forecast that twenty fourteen is going to be year of extremes from what i've read kind of tough hardships walking hand in hand with more inner and light moment of sorts so let's talk a little bit about that what do you mean how is this going to represent itself in real life we'll look at the extremes going on right now who would have thought what was going on in thailand would be going on and continue to go on as hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets go to the ukraine go to romania take a look what's going on over in syria and in libya look at the unrest going on throughout haiti with the pitchfork movements. in spain around the world i've never seen so much volatility one time in so many

been twenty forty eight it wouldn't be the new year's program without joe selenski publisher of trends journal on the line harlow job looking from toronto stickers always. does the you wonder what all over to him to worry about here well you know really they don't and the reason being is that there's so many problems in other places you look what's going on in china very interesting a trend note on christmas eve when nobody's watching concerns melt over china care squeeze financial times yesterday forty percent interest rates loan that developer took from credit china. today's financial times remember this is when nobody's paying attention it's new year's eve fears after china key debt level soars over seventy percent new york times china's says local level debt soars starring fears wall street journal china faces mounting local debt it's the same story around the world it's not only the united states has pumped in all these trillions of dollars to keep their economies going so too is china so in essence what we have are all the world currencies are in trouble so where do you go that's the iss

journal. there's no trend. you can't find the trend. professor roger pilky jr. university of colorado is testifying in congress tomorrow on these very points. you can't find the memo. yes, you can make a lot of interesting stories out of it. sierra club can raise money. but it's akin to saying many bad things will happen. therefore when a bad thing happens you say see i told you so. it's consistent with our theory. extreme weather is consistent with the history of the earth. there is no trend to point to climate change. it's not there. now, that's separate from the larger question of is climate change happening. that's a different question. but of course climate change is governed by hundreds of factors more than just one factor. >> mike and michael, stick around. philippe you've got to be aggressive if you want to get in on these guys. >> i'm actually enjoying this back and forth a little bit. i certainly have things to say as you know, don. >> i know you do. i want to talk to you about the human toll and what it means to our health. >> that's what we lose in t

. >> on the next washington journal, recent housing and might e trends and what be expected in 2014. a round table health carebout the law as some americans are set to care coverage as early as january 1. noam levey and julie rovner join us. as always, we look for your phone, e-mail, and twitter beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. are moving things extremely fast. years, everything is no, twitter is new. of new things mean new programming languages. life into d human four slices and five slices. one is play phase the first a learn phase the next 20 phase a arresting afterwards and then eventually dying. we should have them all at the same time. should play, learn, work all at the same time because it we can't ast today, afford to have a single application anymore. date. e to stay up to >> new year's day on c-span, just before 1:00 p.m. eastern and throughout the afternoon, ceos of udacity, twitter, and higher n the future of education, robotics, and data as industrial resolution, n c-span book tv, kay bailey hutchison on the women who helped to shape texas. on c-span

"wall street journal" says companies are studying trends on social media on things like twitter in anrkets where the flu outbreak is just picking up. the companies buy data on patient business to medical facilities and keep track of surge trends on google, as well. that is the news. next time you think, i am not feeling so well one of the companies will be sending flu medication out. >> thank you, deb where. >> police are looking for a plan who robbed a florida bank dressed as santa. here is a photo of the fake santa in sunglasses walking interest a bank yesterday with a wrapped gift and put it on the counter and told the teller the box was dangerous and demanded money leaving the package behind force everyone to evacuate. police did not say what was in the box but confirmed it was harmless. >> a holiday card for you from saturn, nasa released new imaging taking by the spacecraft and this is five months ago showing the southern hemisphere which takes on a blue hue during the winter month, getting a wide are view of saturn with the natural colors resembles an ornament with a jet stream

wall street journal columnist jeffrey zaslow covers trends in the workplace and points the finger at man who was once america's favorite next-door neighbor. >> ♪ it's a beautiful day ♪ in this neighborhood >> you got a guy like mr. rogers, fred rogers on tv. and he was telling his preschoolers, "you're special. you're special." and he meant well. but we, as parents, ran with it, and we said, "you, junior, are special, and you're special, and you're special." and for doing what? we didn't really explain that. >> but isn't this generation, particularly of middle-class kids, really quite special? aren't they, in some ways, much better than your generation, certainly mine? >> well, except when we were younger, you had a piano teacher who expected you to practice your piano and work hard at it, and the parents expected it. and now parents say, "have fun, learn the piano, practice a little bit." so there's not the expectations that they will achieve and work hard. it's not the same work ethic. >> zaslow says that the coddling virus continues to eat away even when junior goes off to college

. >> on the next "washington journal," we look at housing and mortgage trends and the impact on the u.s. economy with a guest from the national association of realtors. then a discussion on the health care law as health insurance coverage begins on january 1. our roundtable guests are from "los angeles times" and national public radio. everyngton journal" live morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. book tv is in primetime all week. tomorrow night we look at the courts. about herle talks work, "the roberts court." then the thomas healy discusses his book "the great dissent." elliptic guantanamo bay in the book "the terror courts." tv in primetime all week on c-span two. my education expires after five to 10 years. everything is new. of the cloud is new. facebook is new. a lot of these new coating languages -- coding languages. human life, a play phase, a learning phase, a work phase, and a resting phase afterwards, and eventually dying. ,hat i think we should be doing we should have these phases at the same time. we should play, learn, work, all the same time. you get the world moves so

journal." .e will host a roundtable that is live at 8:30 a.m. eastern. before that, we will talk about housing and mortgage trends with lawrence yun from the national association of realtors. liveington journal" is every morning with your calls and the day's newspaper headlines on c-span. thinks.ys what he sometimes i would get on to him because i think you have to be political in a certain way. you have to be honest. you have to say the same things. but still, you have to say it to and know what they want and need to be able to influence and get them to vote for you. it is not being dishonest. it is just finding out what they want and letting them know how you are going to help them with it, with the problems and things they want. >> season two. , and on wednesday, highlights from our second season. >> things are moving extremely fast. my education expires after five to 10 years. the cloud is new. facebook is new. twitter is new. there are new programming languages. we have sliced human life into four slices. one is the first five years. the next is the learning phase, the work phase, then resting and eventually

on today's "washington journal," look at recent housing and mortgage trends and what might withpectedn 2014 lawrence yun of the national association of realtors. levey with them "los angeles times" and julie rovner with under under join npr join us for discussion with the healthcare law as some americans are set to as early asrage january 1. "washington journal" is next. host: officials here in this country are watching the situation in russia very closely. there's been another reported attack.bombing this one at a trolley bus, the same city as yesterday's suicide bombing at a crowded railroad southern russia. many more people have been killed. this is just several weeks arere the winter olympics set to begin in russia. u.s. officials are saying they're more concerned about security in russia during these upcoming games than any other olympics s

we are telling all about the trends and the lack of supply to meet that demand. in the meantime, some investigative journalism is in the cards. it's only right that i try one. amaretto, ginger, and caramel. >> amaretto? add 12 minutes past 6:00 a.m. that is punchy. >> never too early. >> she will never return. we've lost her. be poisedmarkets may to move higher in 2014, but our next guest says it depends on keeping the storm clouds that day. bay. ♪ >> time for today's company news. tesco plans to enter the supermarket business in india. the largest grocer is likely to invest about $110 million in a unit of the group that runs in indian supermarket chain. sony is said to be exploring a sale of its audio recognition business. the software is best known for leading apple itunes quickly identify songs from a cd. they acquired the business in 2008 and a deal could be reached by the end of the year. to have picked bank of america goldman sachs and hsbc to work on a public offering of its retail arm. watson would be valued at more than $20 billion in an ipo. they plan to list in hong kong. welcome back to "countdown

. >> on the next "washington journal," we look at housing and mortgage trends and the in dash impactn the economy with lawrence yun of the national association of realtors. then discussion of the health care law. our rent table -- roundtable guests are from "los angeles times" and national public radio. every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> book tv is in primetime all week. tomorrow night we look at the courts. about herle talks work, "the roberts court." then thomas healy discusses his book about oliver wendell holmes. then a look at "the terror courts." watch book tv all week on c-span 2. host: author and presidential historian richard norton smith joins us now discussion on second term presidencies as as president obama is about to turn the page on the first year of his second term. mr. smith, at this point what can we say yet whether or not present obama's going to fall into a certain mold of a second term president? guest: it is amazing how people are in a rush to get beyond the next three years, there's a large part of the media that cannot wait for the next campaign

trend is still for a very high. >> any time there's a list, who is number one on the list, as imprisoning the most. and why do you think that is? >> well, the top journal of journalists is turkey. a lot of people are surprised by that, turkey is a democracy, member of nato, wants to join the european union. but turkey has a government which does not want to be criticized internally. and so it uses jailing of journalists to silence people. to intimidate them. >> i remember last year, china, i believe and iran were also in the top three. how do they fare this year? >> they're still up there. they're still in the top three and between them, those three countries account for nearly half of the total. so there's a clear pattern here of authority tearian countries that want to put journalists behind bars, rather than deal with the problems that the journalists are reporting on. >> especially in china, we hear a number of things these days. what type of reporting is the chinese government targeting? >> of chinese journalists, it's those journalists that are criticizing the government, criticizing the communist party, doing investigative reporting and your cov

journal" is reporting to buy out t-mobile. if this happened, they would have 50 million customers. this is a trendhat we're seeing in this space. a lot of consolidation just this year. >> will that make them competitive? there's been competitiveness questions about both of those. >> sure. >> if they have a merger, does that keep them in the game? >> you would think so, right. they could allow their forces and offer competitive pricing but we'll have to see. >> i can't figure whether 50 million is enough but it might be. seem m seema, stick around. >>> question, our investors worried about a tighter fed with the expected nomination of stanley fisher coming down the pike and a stronger than expected economy? chief investment strategist and jeff with kkm financial. jeff, i never liked this because good news becomes bad news. you get really strong retail sales and pretty strong job creation and one of the most brilliant guys coming on the federal reserve board. he's a brilliant guy, stanley fisher, and he's much more hawkish than janet yellen. is that enough, okay, strong growth, hawk on the fed, is t

trend to the join me and let's break the set. the thing. it was a little very hard to take. that had sex with her hair. and the age of citizen journalism history is no longer written by the victors it happens in real time through photos videos and blogging but with such little financial support for alternative media it's hard to survive as a full time documentary activist however one photographer is trying to do just that through internet crowdsourcing his activism covered everything from occupy wall street to turkey's uprising and tells her story through provocative imagery now she's funny in a photo book through indie go go and it's already raised over ten thousand dollars and a pope joins me now to talk about her work and her activism thanks and i'm going to have you on you started your activism during the two thousand and one uprising against governor scott walker what was it about this particular event that galvanized you to take action at that point i had never been involved political activism but that became personal to me. one of the groups of people that were attacked by governor walker's budget repair bill was teachers and my

journal" back to 1986 better than any other seven day period of the year. >> eeb with the gains we've seen in the last 12 months, does that skew the possibility of this seasonal trenden this year? >> not necessarily. these gains have been quite seasonally, you know, expected as well. first half of december tends to be weak. i think after a couple weeks of softness here, we can get a santa claus rally get a small cap effect, a january effect. the important part other than the nice little gain can you get out of a santa claus rally is a phrase yale -- my father came up with if santa claus should fail to call, bears use it to create a wall. >> interesting. oliver, this comes after this year, however the first trading da of month goes, so goes the rest of the month. we see how the markets are down sharply. are we to read too much into it? >> no. you want to be cautious and selective. i wouldn't be buying the s&p 500 or the dow, you know outright. i would be very selective. you guys have done some great reporting in the last few weeks about some tech names, some online names that have done very well over the weekend. we got some pretty good retail numbers. the fundament

trends, influencing the forecasters. to the fed.ed in just like the last guy was talking about, the regulators and all of that. that is my comment. tyler.his is from another story in "the wall street journalthis morning. host: simon from california, republican line, good morning. to me it isoe -- unconstitutional. e is a series of protocols we had to go through to get that information. the information they are talking about was used for targets. there was a -- you to throw out a big net doesn't make sense to me. host: jesse is from michigan. caller: good morning. pleased to get in on this topic. it is mind-boggling to me. and sayan call up you've got nothing to hide. host: you have to keep talking to me. go ahead. caller: yeah. we are already in a police state. the police can pull you over for anything. host: cassidy is up next. please turn down your televisions. that lets the conversation go on smoothly. cassidy from kentucky. caller: to the individual who said let them snoop, i like my privacy rights and i like the constitution. i think it is ignorant that he said that. host: what do you think about the decision? caller: i think it is a good decision. i wish more people would be involve