Featured in numerous high-profile publications, Trendwatching provides briefings and reports on current consumer trends. While their yearly reports are not free, they do provide free monthly trend briefings that are quite informative. Past monthly briefings cover such topics as Generation G, Perkonomics, half a dozen consumer trends for 2009, etc. Their site also provides an RSS feed to keep you posted on new briefings. Check it out at: http://trendwatching.com/