Alex Jones interviews Gerald Celente, CEO of Trends Research Institute, 11/17/08
Outline and transcriptions by Jeff Fenske
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWZWyBSBB0]Part 1 of 6
“Current events form future trends. … We look at over 300 different categories on a daily basis, worldwide, looking for those major trends that are shaping the future.”
“We look at this data [from numerous areas];
we analyze it…as political atheists [completely objective skeptics].”
“We look at events for what they are and not what we want them to be,”
Globalnomic: including the entire world + to manage
Because trends can be managed.
How Celente became a trends forecaster
Began Trends Research Institute in 1980
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iilxh9v-l_U]Part 2 of 6
“We think the real breakdown is going to begin in February.”
Why this depression will be the worst.
Unless we have
an alternative energy breakthrough
other than solar, wind, geothermal, etc.
A bank holiday.
Gold goes up. Houses go down.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzpVoHF2yA]Part 3 of 6
Gold confiscation?
People will revolt.
“We think the first cracks will become very evident in February. …
From then on, it’s going to go downhill from there.”
Commercial real estate glut. You’ll start seeing ghost-malls.
“As the giants fall, they’re going to leave big gaps left behind.
And that’s where the entrepreneur is to move into these slots.”
