These articles are not recent, but did forecast trends relevant to current headlines. This is the background and in-general prediction based on an economics theory opposed by those currently at the controls.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nikolai-kondratiev-s-long-wave-the-mirror-of-the-global-economic-crisis/11161
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/christopher-quigley/kondratieff-waves-and-the-greater-depression-of-2013-2020
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/christopher-quigley/kondratieff-waves-greater-depression-update