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“It’s not a question of being optimistic or pessimistic.
It’s a question of what is.”
– Gerald Celente
Trends Research Institute
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“It’s not a question of being optimistic or pessimistic.
It’s a question of what is.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6NCPOMZ9I]Gerald Celente: Washington is Wall St. and Wall St. is Washington
The founder of the Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente, shared his thoughts on Obama’s new initiative and the politicization of the Federal Reserve.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Alex Jones Show, June 4th 2009
Fresh air!
Men and women of integrity admit when they’ve missed it. Gerald is indeed a truther!!!
He tells Alex:
“We had predicted that the crash of ’09 would have taken place already. We believed it would have happened in March, and it was right on schedule to do so. The market hit a low on March 9th.
But they come up with schemes undreamed of. Who would have thought, for example…that now we own General Motors, we’re 60% owners of this company. Who would have dreamed that they would be pumping 12.8 trillion dollars into the system?“
Gerald sees a war (or wars) likely—partly as a distraction “to cover up their failures.” Americans like these wars, he says.
He also spoke of the dollar already losing value. And he sees this, including rising crime (including corporate):
“During the summer, things usually quiet down. Europe goes on vacation, and things start getting real again around September or October. Again, just look through history.”
“The other one is Christmas sales, 2009. Watch how those sales come in. You’re going to see them way, way worse than they were last year, and they were terrible last year.
Then you move into the new year, and that’s when things in 2010 really start to unravel.
That’s our timeline.”
From: Rense
The Bailout Bubble – The
Bubble To End All Bubbles
By Gerald Celente
5-14-9
KINGSTON, NY — The biggest financial bubble in history is being inflated in plain sight, said Gerald Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute. “This is the Mother of All Bubbles, and when it explodes,” Celente warns, “it will signal the end to the boom/bust cycle that has characterized economic activity throughout the developed world.”
Either unwilling or unable to call the bubble by its proper name, the media, Washington and Wall Street describe the stupendous government expenditures on rescue packages, stimulus plans, buyouts and takeovers as emergency measures needed to salvage the severely damaged economy.
“All of this terminology is econo-jargon,” said Celente. “It’s like calling torture ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ Washington is inflating the biggest bubble ever: the ‘Bailout Bubble.’ “This is much bigger than the Dot-com and Real Estate bubbles which hit speculators, investors and financiers the hardest. However destructive the effects of these busts on employment, savings and productivity, the Free Market Capitalist framework was left intact. But when the ‘Bailout Bubble’ explodes, the system goes with it.”
The economic framework of the United States has been restructured. Federal interventionist policies have given the government equity stakes, executive powers and management control of what was once private enterprise. To finance these buyouts, rescue and stimulus packages — instead of letting failed businesses fail and bankrupt banks and bandit brokerages go bankrupt — trillions of dollars are being injected into the stricken economy.
Phantom dollars, printed out of thin air, backed by nothing … and producing next to nothing … defines the “Bailout Bubble.” Just as with the other bubbles, so too will this one burst. But unlike Dot-com and Real Estate, when the “Bailout Bubble” pops, neither the President nor the Federal Reserve will have the fiscal fixes or monetary policies available to inflate another.
With no more massive economic bubbles left to blow up, they’ll set their sights on bigger targets. “Given the pattern of governments to parlay egregious failures into mega-failures, the classic trend they follow, when all else fails, is to take their nation to war,” observed Celente.
Since the “Bailout Bubble” is neither called nor recognized as a bubble, its sudden and spectacular explosion will create chaos. A panicked public will readily accept any Washington/Wall Street/Main Stream Media alibi that shifts the blame for the catastrophe away from the policy makers and onto some scapegoat.
“At this time we are not forecasting a war. However, the trends in play are ominous,” Celente concluded. “While we cannot pinpoint precisely when the ‘Bailout Bubble’ will burst, we are certain it will. When it does, it should be understood that a major war could follow.”
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From: Rense
Green Shoots Or
Greatest Depression?
By Gerald Celente
5-7-9
KINGSTON, NY — The financial fields replete with sprouting “green shoots” should be viewed with suspicion, if not alarm, warns Gerald Celente, The Trends Research Institute Director. “They are not a mirage, but they are ephemeral.”
Field Marshall Ben Bernanke and his Green Shoot Brigade have fertilized the economic landscape with trillions of sweat equity dollars extorted from today’s public and the public of generations to come. Regardless of how depleted the land, heavy doses of dollars spread so thickly over the financial and government territories, will force “green shoots” to grow. But the fundamentals of the economy remain unsound. They will not be corrected by forced fertilizing barren acreage.
“‘Green shoots’ may sprout,” said Celente, “but they will not flower. The economy cannot be coerced back into growth with tons of money manure.” As the ancient parable puts it:
“A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” — Luke 8:4-8
Now here this: it is inconceivable that the “green shoots” are signs of sustained economic recovery.
Celente said no one could have forecast that the government would not only intervene in the markets by pouring unprecedented trillions into bailout schemes, but that they would commandeer the whole free enterprise system.
“The 800-pound gorilla has ridden the elephant into the Oval Office, and are there for all to see. But few will call a spade a spade,” declared Celente. “Benito Mussolini described Fascism as ‘The merger of state and corporate power.’ He suggested that, more appropriately, it should be called ‘Corporatism.’ By whatever name, Corporatism or Fascism, what it’s not is Free Market Capitalism, much less Democracy,” Celente said.
“Green shoots” can only be brought to harvest through real productivity. Pumping gigantic sums of money into too-big-to-fail financial institutions to jump-start the lending/borrowing cycle is to perpetuate a failed economic model. (See “The Greatest Depression,” Trends Journal, Winter 2009.)
“We can extrapolate creatively from data, but cannot prophesize wild cards, such as acts of God, acts of nature, or acts of man that can only be described as ‘schemes undreamed of.‘ While there have been warnings since the founding of the United States, no one, but no one, could have predicted the mega-merger of Wall Street and Washington that is now a fait accompli,” said The Trends Research Institute Director.
Trendpost: With so much money being dumped into the system, there will be money to made … and lost. The agile and the knowledgeable may be able to reap “green shoots” while they’re sprouted. But beware!
“The Greatest Depression” — that we forecast would begin to set in by the end of this year — may have been postponed, but it has not been averted. When it does set in, it will do so with enhanced intensity and at a pace accelerated by complex financial finagling … all under the guise of nation-saving action. Rather than let the failing industries fail and the failed banks go bankrupt, the government is deliberately bankrupting the nation.
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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from ABC’s World News Sunday, 4/19/09
Dan Harris: “Gerald Celente points out that the guys in the mainstream got it wrong.”
Gerald Celente: “I’m always amazed—the people listen to the people who didn’t see it coming to say what’s going to happen next.”
“The ‘Intellectual Revolution’ must be waged on the battlefield of the mind,” said Celente. “Americans are doomed unless they kick the junk news habit, deprogram themselves from celebrity worship, refuse to blindly follow political leaders and question all ideological dogmas … especially their own.
From: Rense
Celente Calls For [Intellectual] ‘Revolution’
As The Only Solution
By George Celente
4-13-9KINGSTON, NY — Taxed to death, angry at government bailouts, outraged by Wall Street greed, and bitterly resentful of a system that rewards the undeserving rich, the American public is ready to revolt.
“The Tea Parties and Tax Protests sprouting across the nation, which we had predicted, are harbingers of revolution,” said Gerald Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute. “But they are not enough. Much stronger and directed action is required. Our call for ‘Revolution’ will galvanize the people, destroy the corrupt ruling systems, and produce a prosperous and more just nation.”
The Revolution Celente proposes is unique in concept and bold in execution. It is about a lot more than just “taxation without representation.”
“Nothing short of total repudiation of our entrenched systems can rescue America,” said Celente. “We are under the control of a two-headed, one party political system. Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds. These systems cannot be changed from within. There is no alternative. Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in perpetual intellectual subjugation.”
The country is restless, and ripe for radical reform. There is no doubt protests will proliferate and intensify. In response, the government will call out the troops and bring in the police. They will use the Patriot Act to silence, detain, harass, persecute and prosecute groups and individuals exercising their Constitutional rights.
But Celente’s Revolution need not degenerate into violence or open warfare.
“The most important thing is:
unite with your neighbors.
This is the time
for the community to
come together.”
– Gerald Celente, director
The Trends Research Institute
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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from ‘Coast to Coast AM,’ 4/7/09
First hour guest, trends analyst Gerald Celente offered commentary on the economy. He foresees unemployment rates rising as high as 25%, levels that will rival the Great Depression. He was critical of the plan to let banks set the value of their own toxic assets.
WORLD DEPRESSION GERALD CELENTE FOX NEWS APRIL 1ST, 2009 (NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE!!) — Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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“Who came up with the ‘too big to fail’ mantra? … It’s not socialism. By definition, government controlled capitalism is called fascism.”
“It’s insanity: the same people that caused it are going to fix it??“
“Will the American troops fire on their people if they protest?“
“Empire America is Fading Fast.”
– Gerald Celente
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFtePsHsUkA]Gerald Celente on Glenn Beck 10 Feb 09 Economic Apocalypse !!!!!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoCv1GwXUxc]Gerald Celente on Glenn Beck 14 Feb 2009 Global Katrina !!!
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Gerald Celente, Trend Expert,Believes FEMA Camps for US Citizens 14 dec 2008
Gerald Celente: Director of Trends Research Institute
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From: Rense.com
The Greatest Depression Under Way
Gerald Celente
3-3-9
KINGSTON, NY, 2, March 2009 – “The Greatest Depression” that The Trends Research Institute forecast, well before Wall Street or Washington would acknowledge recession, is upon us.
The global financial markets are collapsing.
All the pundit’s cautious predictions and business media’s hopeful expectations at the New Year for an economic turn around and imminent market bottom were dead wrong. There will be no turn around in the second quarter of 2009 or 2010 or 2011 America and much of the world has entered “The Greatest Depression.”
The global financial system, built on endless supplies of cheap money, rampant speculation, fraud, greed, and delusion is terminally ill and will not be coaxed into remission by stimulus packages nor restored to health by government buyouts and bailouts.
Today, the MSCI World Index of stocks in 23 developed nations fell 4.9 percent to 713.75, the lowest closing level since March 2003, and its Emerging Markets Index slid 5 percent. The Dow followed, plunging 300 points, closing below 7,000 for the first time since 1997.
There is no stock market bottom in sight. The only figure that can be forecast with confidence is that the Dow won’t reach zero!
As the crisis worsens, governments will take draconian measures to prevent total economic collapse and public panic. We have cautioned the likelihood of such measures before. But the rapidity and severity of the economic unraveling now demands immediate attention.
Expect massive bank failures, runs on banks, and bank holidays. Even if deposits are FDIC insured, quick access to money is by no means assured. At minimum, have reserves on hand for emergencies.
Trendpost: When the ship is sinking there are very few options: Life boats, life rafts, life preservers and for the late to act, possibly a few pieces of floating debris to cling to.
We are trend forecasters, not certified financial advisors legally empowered to provide such advice. Although gold prices declined today some $15 to $925 per ounce, we forecast that gold will be one of the few life saving investments that will continue to increase in value, reaching $2,000 per ounce and beyond.
The Trends Research Institute
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By Gerald Celente, director, The Trends Research Institute
From: Rense.com
‘We Will Recover’ – Obama…
No We Won’t Says Celente
KINGSTON, NY, 27, February 2009 — The wealth of plain, hard facts upon which The Trends Research Institute’s forecasts are based belie the lofty promises made by President Obama’s first address to Congress.
“We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” said President Obama.
Said Celente, “The government has yet to fix the levees in New Orleans. There is still a hole in the ground where the World Trade Center once stood. Washington has started two wars it can’t win and doesn’t know how to finish. The massive bank, brokerage, auto and insurance company bailouts have done nothing to resuscitate the sinking economy. The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) that candidate Obama championed has not “relieved.” President Obama’s $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will not lead to recovery and the nation will not ’emerge stronger than before,'” Celente continued.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Dr. Bill Deagle’s Nutrimedical Report, 2/9/09
“The people that are going to survive
this Greatest Depression
are going to be healthy:
physically,
emotionally,
spiritually,
as well as financially.”
– Gerald Celente
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“I don’t have to tell you the health of this nation.
You look back at photos of people during the Great Depression. They weren’t riding around at Wal-Marts on these electric carts to get around.
They were self-sufficient, and they were in much better shape, physically, emotionally and spiritually. There was more of whole-health healing going on back then than there is now.”
– Gerald Celente
From: Prison Planet; transcription by Jeff Fenske
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Host:
“What are we going to see happening to the society, to people’s day-to-day lives in terms of how they treat one another, crime?”
Gerald Celente TrendsResearch.com:
“When I say it’s going to be worse than the Great Depression, we call this the Greatest Depression. And by the way, to be using 1930’s models to get us out of this is really stupid. Back then, when we first crashed, most people didn’t own homes. There was no such thing as a home equity loan. And back then, people didn’t have credit cards. The consumer wasn’t 14 trillion dollars in debt. We had a manufacturing base that built the world out of the Great Depression, following World War II. We no longer have that.
So now, people are at their ends. They’re stressed out. America is the most depressed nation, already. They take more anti-depressent drugs than anybody. Plus the other kind of drugs that they’re taking. You’re going to see crime levels…. It’s going to be very violent in America. …
When people lose everything, and they have nothing to lose, they lose it. You’re going to see ‘off with their heads.’ There’s going to be another revolution in this country.”
Host:
“So you don’t think Obama is different in any way?”
Celente:
“‘By their deeds you shall know them.’ If I bring in a hitter that strikes out every time, and I want him to play in the world series, is he going to hit the ball over the fence?
They brought in Larry Summers, Timothy Geitner. Look at the crew. Look at who they are. They’re strike-out artists, every one of them. The only thing that they know how to do is not to get their fingernails dirty.”
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from:
The Alex Jones Show – L I V E – Jan. 27 with Gerald Celente — Trends Research Institute, just-the-facts, ‘political atheist’
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The next shoe to drop domestically:
“What we’re going to see with the real estate collapse in commercial is going to make the sub-prime problem look like peanuts. And we’re forecasting: around March, the reality is going to set in that the greatest depression is on the way.”
The ‘solution’ is sold as ‘nationalization,’ but:
“What they’re calling ‘nationalization,’ …it’s not nationalization at all…. Now, Wall Street is in control of Washington.”
The Presidential Reality Show:
“This is the Presidential Reality Show, Episode 2, Obama Moves Into the Whitehouse. America loves entertainment, and they now have a celebrity President.
He’s the Tiger Woods of the political scene.
People are going to buy into this for a long time. … The people are so fearful and desperate that they’ll believe the thinnest veneer has substance to it.”
The college industrial complex:
“Our education system has dumbed us down and forced us to learn all the same things in the same way. … There’s no individuality. … What’s going to survive in this coming greatest depression are the people that express their individuality, that are unique, or innovative, and really understand what quality is about. Those are going to be the survivors and thrivers in the coming tough times, as the rest of the people who all think alike, and have drunk the Kool-Aid go down with the ship.”
“Most people are only fed sound-bites of information upon which they make decisions.”
“They don’t want to believe it, number one. They think of these things as conspiracy theories. They’ve been indoctrinated all their lives through the college industrial complex to all think alike. …this is way beyond their grasp of understanding. How many people really know that the major issue in United States’ politics throughout the entire 1800s was about the central bankers taking over the country?”
‘Shows’ lose their ratings:
This is the Presidential reality show, and shows start losing their ratings after awhile, when they turn bad. … It’s going to lose its veneer.”
On the geopolitical front:
“On the geopolitical front, what we’re most concerned about is Israel and Iran.”
Celente says Obama’s early measures give the impression of ‘change,’ like closing Guantanamo, the emissions standards, the executive pay, the abortion issue.
“He’s solidifying his core support…
Alex Jones adds that Barack Obama is already betraying some of his stances [like pulling out of Iraq]. And:
He’s throwing a few bones, but they’re hollow. We’ll look at a year in closing Guantanamo, but we’ll keep indefinite detention.”
Celente:
He’s just carrying on the policies and the big issues in the economy and geopolitical as the previous administration.”
President Eisenhower warned the nation as he was leaving office that the military industrial complex is taking over the country.
“Look who Obama just brought in as his deputy defense secretary, a chief lobbyist for one of the greatest of all the military industrial defense companies, Raytheon [Bill Lynn, – ed.].
Don’t wait to get hit:
“Don’t wait to get hit. … An economic 9/11 has already happened. Take evasive actions. Plan for the future. …
As my dear father had taught me…, ‘listen to your own gut; think for yourself; don’t be a parrot. … Stop repeating what everybody else is saying.’”
From: Freedom’s Phoenix
Jim Puplava interviews Gerald Celente on the coming Collapse of 2009: Click Here to Listen
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Some of Calente’s Interesting Points:
Selected and Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
• Whole health healing — People will only go to the doctor for emergencies. Gerald had Lyme disease, which he treated naturally.
• Yankee frugality — People fixing and doing things on their own. “Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, do without.”
• Quality — Cutting back on junk — foods and products of substance. Character.
• “The sharp look is going to be back in.” “The people are going to understand that if they’re going to want to get a job and move ahead, they better act sharp, be sharp and think sharp.”
• Entertainment revival. “In bad times, people want high times.” The great depression had “the happiest, hottest music this nation has ever seen.”
• Revival of mainstreet — “Live, work and shop all in the same area.” Mom and Pop stores.
• College crash — “These kids, today, think they know it all.”
• Global unrest — If the war is expanded beyond Gaza to include Lebanon, Syria and maybe Iran, we’re looking at WWIII. Throw in an ‘oil shock’ on top of our economic disaster, and ouch!
“We think…the collapse is going to start happening around late February, early March.”
From: Rense.com
Top Trend # 8:
Little People Squeeze
Cheri Van Deusen
12-22-8
“When people lose everything, and there’s nothing left to lose … they lose it.” -Gerald Celente
KINGSTON, NY — Among our TOP TRENDS 2009, The Trends Research Institute forecast an imminent onslaught of “Hassle Taxes” to be levied by governments at every level from local to federal.
Intended to make up for shortfalls in revenue brought on by the economic crisis, we predicted the taxes would “squeeze the already squeezed” while leaving the most wealthy relatively untouched.
Right on schedule, Governor David Paterson of New York proposed 130 new or sharply raised taxes on a broad range of items including: Soda pop, taxi rides, haircuts, movie tickets, music downloads. If the Paterson proposal is implemented, almost no aspect of daily life will be left untaxed.
New York is not alone … most states are imposing “hassle taxes” and raising property and school taxes despite dramatically declining home values.
While the unfair and burdensome taxes will fail to balance budgets, they will succeed in infuriating the general public to such an extent that tax revolts will break out around the country, along with incendiary displays of both civil and uncivil disobedience.
Blind to the repercussions, governments do not recognize that revolution, not prosperity, is just around the corner.
That’s not all. Beyond tax revolts and civil disobedience , 2009 will be a tumultuous year.
Trends foreboding and trends promising:
The Collapse of ’09: Markets will tumble and major businesses will fail.
The Greatest Depression: Worse than the 1930’s Depression. Why?
Revolution: What will be the spark that ignites it? Who will fire the shot heard around the world?
Obamarama: High hopes, broken promises: Some victories, major failures.
Economic Slim-Fast: Like it or not, Americans will go on a spending diet and food diet.
Bush Gardens: Lawns out, Edible Landscaping in. Why Bush Gardens?
Whole Health Healing: 2009 marks a year of “attitude change” for the on-trend health aware.
Little People Squeeze: Politicians will put the financial squeeze on the already squeezed.
Regenerative Medicine: The time is ripe for stem cells to come out of the laboratory and into the clinic.
That’s Entertainment: Lifting spirits and drinking them will be big business and major pastimes during the Greatest Depression.
College Crash: Following the equity market meltdown, the real estate bust and the retail unraveling, comes the college crash.
To schedule an interview with Trends Research Institute Director, Gerald Celente, or for a copy of the Trends Journal’s Top Trends 2009, please contact:
Cheri Van Deusen
Media Relations
The Trends Research Institute
CvanDeusen@trendsresearch.com
www.trendsresearch.com
845.876.6700 Ext. 1
From: Rense.com
Top Trends Of 2009
By Gerald Celente
12-18-8
KINGSTON, NY — Exactly one year ago, The Trends Research Institute alerted you to an impending economic crisis we named, the “Panic of ’08.” Last year we wrote:”In 2008, Americans will wake up to the worst economic times that anyone alive has ever seen. And they won’t know what hit them. “
Our forecast was right on target. Few others saw the Panic coming. As former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin declared (November 29, 2008,) “Nobody was prepared for this.”
Mr. Rubin’s statement was incorrect. We were prepared, and we prepared our Trends Journal ® subscribers.
Now, in our “Top Trends of 2009,” we forecast “The Collapse of ’09,” which in turn will spiral into the “Greatest Depression” the worst economic conditions America has ever experienced.
That’s not all. Beyond economics, 2009 will be a tumultuous year. Trends foreboding and trends promising:
The Collapse of ’09: Markets will tumble and major businesses will fail.
The Greatest Depression: Worse than the1930’s Depression. Why?
Revolution: What will be the spark that ignites it? Who will fire the shot heard around the world?
Obamarama: High hopes, broken promises: Some victories, major failures.
Economic Slim-Fast: Like it or not, Americans will go on a spending diet and food diet.
Bush Gardens: Lawns out, Edible Landscaping in. Why Bush Gardens?
Whole Health Healing: 2009 marks a year of “attitude change” for the on-trend health aware.
Little People Squeeze: Politicians will put the financial squeeze on the already squeezed.
Regenerative Medicine: The time is ripe for stem cells to come out of the laboratory and into the clinic.
That’s Entertainment. Lifting spirits and drinking them will be big business and major pastimes during the Greatest Depression.
College Crash: Following the equity market meltdown, the real estate bust and the retail unraveling, comes the college crash.
Cheri Van Deusen
The Trends Research Institute
CvanDeusen@trendsresearch.com
www.trendsresearch.com
845.876.6700 Ext. 1