To save anyone else the time looking into this:
 
The reports look to be legit, even if the coverage is sensationalised and hosted on shall we say 'biased' domains.

It's basically an expansion on market trends taught in every good business school, not an indication of a shadowy cabal controlling the world. Economics is a harsh bitch sometimes is all.

Also worth pointing out that these were written over ten years ago, and a number of the predictions turned out to be wrong. Not the authors fault, statistics is like that.

For the record I work in the field, and while I haven't checked the figures, I didn't spot any blatant misrepresentations.