The crazed doom-and-gloom prophets of our world have this troubling ability to occupy the airwaves, becoming strangely confused with qualified experts. Gerald Celente is the latest soothsayer operating on his hunches — now being celebrated on Digg, Reddit, and just about every damn aggregator imaginable.
His predictions sound suspiciously similar to the storyline for Brian Francis Slattery’s excellent new novel, Liberation, but Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is determined to deliver. By 2012, Celente forecasts revolution in America, food riots, and tax rebellions. In four years, America will become an undeveloped nation. Holidays will be about food rather than gifts. Mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together. Doom and gloom.
The media — or, rather, FOX News and conservative websites — is listening to Celente because he “predicted” the 1997 currency crisis in Asia, the subprime mortgage disaster, and the dollar dipping south. But Infowars, a website run by paleoconservative radio show host Alex Jones, is basking in this dystopic news like an AIG executive riding high on Uncle Sam’s dime. What’s particularly strange is that Infowars hasn’t bothered to quibble with Celente’s statements, much less point to any of his inaccurate predictions.
How does Celente do it? From Invest in Yourself by Mark Eisenson, Gerri Detweiler, and Nancy Castleman:
According to Gerald Celente, Director of the Trends Research Institute and author of Trends 2000, the key to tracking trends is to read two newspapers every day with a purpose — either The Wall Street Journal or The Financial Times, plus The New York Times or USA Today. Look for stories with social, economic, and political significance, be it about the difficulties older suburbs face or the current currency crisis. (You’ll know by the headline or the first paragraph.) Skip the stories that are purely human interest or that are about something that hasn’t happened yet (for example, a jury resuming deliberation on a sensational trial).
When a crisis does occur, tune in to the extra in-depth analyses that you’ll find in accompanying background pieces probably in more than one of the newspapers. Read them as though you’re a “political atheist,” Celente recommends — not for what you want or hope, but for what is really going on, not only in your own profession or industry, but for trends that may directly or indirectly shape the future.
Aside from the Dale Carnegie-style language here, much of Celente’s “suggestions” seem more like a series of guidelines on how to become a successful “futurist” predicting a good deal of generalist nonsense that scares the shit out of people, using language lifted from a newspaper story’s barebones and riding on a few hunches. Of course, it also helps to have an aesthetic touch — something along the lines of a desktop covered with 12 globes, just so you can impress a New York Times reporter who comes by to write a small profile.
Since Infowars could not be bothered to perform even the most rudimentary act of journalism, the time has come to see if Celente’s record truly cuts the mustard.
- In May 1993, in a story about fiftysomethings losing their jobs written for the Orange County Register, Celente was quoted. He was advising IBM at the time during a period of downsizing. What was Celente’s golden advice? He informed displaced executives to “go for some kind of counseling.” Asked to comment on this situation, Celente offered the same doom and gloom boilerplate that he’s telling us today: “The Industrial Age is ending. All the systems are breaking down and that means disappointment and disillusionment for the people who grew up in the ’50’s.” He elaborated, “These people believed in the Ozzie and Harriet way of life. That concept is dead. So is the concept of retiring at 65.” These were hardly prescient or specific thoughts, but they were certainly dramatic enough to make it into an Orange County newspaper.
- Why not get topical? Let’s take Celente on a more specialized subject like restaurants. In 1993, Celente predicted “growing demands for take-out food, high- and low-end restaurants, and restaurants that offer live entertainment. Middle-range restaurants with mainstream fare will suffer.” Aside from the fact that Celente’s prediction accounts for about 90% of restaurants, doesn’t the fact that human beings need to eat remain a comfy ledge to launch a prediction?
- In 1998, Celente told Money Magazine that, as the population grows older, “Americans will be spending more time at home than ever before both for pleasure and business.” Imagine that. You grow old, retire, and then you suddenly have more time. How the hell did Celente know?
- In the September 21, 2000 edition of Newsweek, the great futurist weighed in on mindless chores. Why are they called mindless? “Your mind can’t be going all the time.” And when any problem becomes bigger, it becomes bigger than burnout. “It’s road rage, it’s air rage, it’s Columbine, it’s stress — and people don’t get it.” I’m wondering if it’s also the kind of impulse that will cause you to make impetuous predictions about the United States’s future.
- Asked by CBS News in May 2005 to comment upon where Dillard’s planned to go, Celente had this to say: “There is nothing Dillard’s has that you can’t find in 1,000 other places. America is vastly overstored.” Take out “Dillard’s” and sub it in with another department store chain name, and you begin to see what little Celente’s remarks say.
- But if we’re in for a future of doom and gloom, Celente has been sending us some mixed messages. He told the Associated Press in May 2005, “The bottom of the luxury market is not going to fall out.”
- Talking with the Associated Press in September 2005, Celente suggested that Wal-Mart could deflect its negative image with its philanthropy. That’s hardly a stunning insight. Any positive action has the probability of causing a company to look good. This is rudimentary probability. But what profound thoughts did our great seer tell the AP? “We try to refrain from making value judgments — what the motive is. But the fact is that [Wal-Mart was] there with trailer trucks being turned away. Amazing, isn’t it?” Amazing indeed. Presumably, the AP reporter who talked with Celente did so because the reporter needed somebody to describe the situation as “amazing” or “magnificent.” Some casual modifier that might be confused for profound thought.
- Celente was asked to weigh in on Internet trends by the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Patricia Yollin in December 2006. “People are more electronically connected and less humanly connected,” opined our great psychic. And if that general piece of advice wasn’t enough, Celente also took the time to badmouth public displays of affection, pointing out how unacceptable it was to put PDA in “techno jargon.” Perhaps Celente confused PDA with another type of PDA, but what he didn’t seem to tell the reporter was that acronyms have existed long before the Internet.
Here you have a history of a man who not only makes his living spouting this generalist nonsense at corporations, but who is listened to by the media. If we weren’t all scared shitless, this wingnut would be chased out of boardrooms and newsrooms with pitchforks.
But who needs rational thinking when you have the comforts of defeatism? If you really want to get your dose of passive-aggressive dystopia, just call up Gerald Celente. He’s on Line 2 and he’ll take your money when you have no faith in humanity or when you don’t have a clue about how to do your job. Have him rant in your newspaper. Give him money to advise your corporation. Above all, don’t look at history, science, or specific statistics. Because Celente will boil them all down for you with one of his seemingly pithy and mysterious predictions. And he’ll be right. Because like a trusted astrology columnist or a two-bit faith healer, Celente leaves just enough room in his answer to wiggle out. And you swallow it every time. Because you’re too scared to think for yourself, or do a background check on the guy in the lobby waving his arms.
Bad times are coming. When it becomes no longer profitable to import food and other items, we will not be able to just walk into a store and buy food or other supplies. We will need to flee the cities as there will be millions of desperate people looking for food. Paper money will mean nothing, investments and savings will be unattainable. The heat, gas, water and electricity for our homes will be turned off. To survive people will create gangs of small communities that look for and take by force what they need. Mega cities will become mega ghost towns, giant tombs of the dead who were too foolish to leave when they had the chance. Celente is right, but things will escalate far worse than even what he is predicting. Plan now or be crushed by this coming wave of change.
Take care. Nex.
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This article is written terribly. The author is witty and humorous, but that does not mask his obvious lack of utilizing serious facts that might support his ideas that Celente is a “quack”. Just because he is vague and makes generalizations does not mean Celente is incorrect. I, for one, was amazed at an interview I saw in 2006 when he predicted Obama to win if the economy holds as the main issue (if it was going to be the war he predicted Mcain). Amazing really–when you consider Obama is black and he still predicted right in 06.
Your criticisms are very nitpicky. Have anything worth reading?
The core Obama hopefuls – the liberals and socialists – thought they had arrived at a crisis that was their golden opportunity to hijack the US Government and put it on the road to Socialism. They are incapable of acknowledging the realality of the meltdown they have been instrumental in creating with reckless government policy.
The Pelosi orchestrated “stimulus” bill seemed to be the opportunity to push us over the edge while rewarding all their Leftist constituents – call it the greed for power.
But thanks to the Law of Unintended Consequences what they have managed to precipitate with the irresponsible, reckless spending bill is the beginning of a global collapse, begun by the Barney Frank/Dodd mortgage giveaway to unqualified borrowers and spurred on by Pelosi/Obama massive transfer of middle class wealth to those at the top and bottom of the economic ladder.
Hold on folks, we are in for a rough ride.
Well, many in here can read between the lines, and after reading your article they have come to the conclusion that you’re absultely wrong. If I were you I would delete this entire page. By the way, you picked on the wrong man.
The sky is falling! How is it that the change agent,hopemonger,Mr. inspiration has become the Fearmonger? Thank you Mr. President,for the I told you so’s!Say what you will about Mr.Celente,but he appears increasingly to play the role of prophet and successfully.
This is going to get scary,Soylet Green scary!
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Who’s actually keeping track of his percentages?
Wow this article is pathetic… Just delete it… I have been looking everywhere for something negative about Gerald Celente, and I come across this… This article makes me believe in GC even more actually… Quit while you’re ahead…
Good stuff…
Eric Tyson, author of Personal Finance for Dummies, has many useful articles on the true track records of various gurus
http://www.erictyson.com
Alright, I can appreciate not needing to panic over one man’s predictions; analysis of trends. And yet, where accuracy is at issue, why make sweeping comments that are way out of touch? For instance, Alex Jones, a “paleoconservative”(?) Well, his MO is admirable in that he fights corruption. It doesn’t take too much research to know that a good portion of the banking bailout has favored white collar criminals, trading in derivatives, since the politicians who allowed this to happen are on their payroll for campaign contributions, etc… Jones was just as vehement against the Bush administration and Republicans as he is against corruption and facades of this new Obama era. He doesn’t “bask” in anyone’s opinions. Far too detail oriented. I think it’s about time people begin to wake up from dreaming of reality as wished for, and use our common sense.
Let’s see – it’s 3 March and the stock market has had its worst Jan and Feb since — the 30’s. GE on death watch with most other big banks, AIG receives 4th huge bailout, GDP down 6.2% last quarter, Omama budget breaks all records, Hillary begging China to keep buying US bonds, big 3 are walking dead, unemployment rate goes up every month since this initial blog, economic riots in a number of other countries – I could go on. Yea, Celente is clearly a fool : )
Amazing how accurate he has been! A lot of you folks just can’t handle the TRUTH!!!
Also, when you realize that all of these politicians who now reside in DC (District of Corruption) are all virtually part of the same group – you have been lied to.
looking at human behaviour and human history can leave one in no doubt that Global catastrophe is just ahead. I will use the reality of mans past, which is war,war,more war, leading to world war one, world war two, and I beliave world war three will shortly follow. Past trends of the human family lead me to conclude that third world war is as inevitable as night follows day. To come to such a conclusion does not make me a prophet, but is I believe a conclusion based on sound historical and indisputable human behaviour. Gerald Celente follows a similiar line of reasoning and I concur with much of what he says. Irrespective of who says what, or why or when, the reality is any rational reasonable individual would have to conclude after making a prognosis of this worlds problems that it is in terminal decline.This is not a local cancer, but Global cancer.
The United States is in a depression right now. Fact and figures are being falsified by those who truly run the country in an effort to fooling you into thinking you have hope.
I’m no fan of Celente.
But Edward asks a bunch of questions without ever refuting a single forecast or other thing that Celente has commented on.
Edward is nothing but a pussy and a cry baby.
Edward adds nothing to the discussion or debate about current events.
Edward is a waste of cyberspace.
You people are cretins. You really are.
predicted economic turmoil? Any 2nd year economics student could tell you the salad days don’t last forever.
Some of you really seem to enjoy the idea that times will be harder than they were a few years ago.
Here’s my prediction. The economy will improve in the future…then…wait for it…it won’t last forever and there will be tough times ahead. Every year the good times last I’ll start making more and more predictions based on past economic cycles that tell you all it’s going to get bad in the future…
I’ll be a genius
you’ll still be stupid.
It’s rather interesting to see how panicky some people get, expecting the N.W.O. to take over, the Amero in 2010, this all being caused by an abandonment of God, etc.
Things are bad, no wait, they’re really bad, as bad as it has been in most people’s lifetimes. But, I don’t think Celente is the most prudent voice to listen to (Nouriel Roubini, Marc Faber, and Jim Rogers are the pessimists of choice). I don’t see things bottoming out soon, and I dont expect a recovery until late 2010 early 2011. But taking Celente’s word to heart is not worthwhile, mostly because he panders to Alex Jones/Jeff Rense types that thrive on the worst possible news and constantly run with it.
The likely scenario is a worldwide lost decade like Japan experienced in the 1990s, not another revolution and the degeneration of America into a third world country.
If this is the worst press on GC im gonna keep an eye on him. Fail to prepare , prepare to fail. Truth is relevant to what you have invested in it and as this is a global crisis we all need to listen to people with a credible track record. Some see his predictions as doom and gloom but i for one see them in quiet an optimistic light.
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I like this one,,,as from los angeles it seems we are losing the country!
the local college pushes ‘global citizenship’ while having 700 illegals from mexico and ? from other BFE countries.
i like
‘Ok fine. Let’s just say Gerald and every other doom and gloomer predicting hard times ahead is completely wrong. Don’t store any food, water, protection, or precious metals. The store shelves will always be full, and you will always have your job. There, all better now’
I think the only way Gerald can get paid is by pumping sci-fi fear talk because that is what his reputation is built upon. If you look at his track record he has been wrong numerous times. Just look at the US Dollar as an example of realty. Gerald along with his depression predictions should have resulted in the crash of the dollar. In fact if even 50% of what Gerald is predicting about the future of the US were believable the dollar would be still crashing. In realty the dollar has gained as the word looks to the US for safety. If you want sci-fi entertainment to fall asleep to at night then follow Gerald. If you want smart analysis of the economy then follow Nouriel Roubini.
Celente’s predictions on dollars and gold seem to have been held up longer than expected, but he sticks by them.
Not one Technology the West has is of its own creation. All Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Inventions are of Eastern & Asian origin. It is just that a while back, the Westerners during “their” Industrial Revolution and previous centuries earlier during their “Renaissance” bought most of the inventions and technology from Easterners/Asians. Then after this mass-produced these technologies and stamped their Western names on it all. In the process the entire Western History is all based on fraud.
Most of the resources were stolen from the rest of the world by the West, leading to their “3rd worlds”. By using the very same Eastern Technologies such as firearms, turbochargers reversed into turbine engines, piston-pumps reversed into piston engines and airfoil airflow laminar flow airfoils for flight, the West waged war on all other non-Western nations from where these technologies originate from! Then of course doctored the history as if these inventions are from dull Westerners.
These are all Eastern Inventions, stolen or bought by Westerners, mass-produced and misused by Westerners. So they could ultimately rob the rest of the world of most of their resources. Now this is changing. The fraud and theft which made the once-3rd world West into the “1st World” is coming to an end. The ignorance and stupidity of most Westerners is what is ultimately going to get them mass-exterminated.
Westerners are unskilled and have very poor Mathematical, Science, Engineering and Technology abilities. Even during the World War II days, all Westerners needed an Eastern Chief Engineer and Scientist in their Laboratories to even understand these technologies. More broke Eastern sell-outs making a buck.
Westerners are all about Marketing, Sales, Business, Distribution and robbing others inventions, mass-producing them and selling them, making money off of them. Most Westerners care only about money, not about any real Technical, Engineering and Science skills.
This is why the Global Economic Collapse will be the greatest balance this world has seen. Only Technical Skills, Engineering and Scientific ability will allow one to produce anything. Since the Easterners and Asians invented all this technology, not mass-produced and distributed it like the Westerners have, it the future world will be re-ruled by the Easterners/Asians. Like it has been for most of the truthful history.
Westerners only got ahead for a few centuries by robbing and copying everyone. Very few Westerners are Engineers, Scientists, Inventors, Licensed Technicians, Medical Doctors/Surgeons and Researchers, compared to the Easterners/Asians, Westerners are backwards at Engineering/Technology and Science. 3% of Westerners are into Engineering/Technology and Science. Where as 49% of all Easterners/Asians are some type of Scientist, Inventor, Technician or Engineer.
This is why the West relies on skilled overseas immigrants to design, build and test most of their technologies, with Westerners as the front-people representing those companies, with Easterners behind the scenes developing all these so-called “Western Technologies”.
The False Pride and ignorance which dominates the West, will abruptly come to an end. Mass extermination, famine and fascist militarism will dominate the West and reduce it to territories of the East.
Just know that the foreign world owns 65% of North America now. Wait till they cash in their chips, all those FEMA Prison Camps, all 940 of them throughout the USA and Canada, will house tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of Americans and Canadians, scheduled for mass-extermination.
Meanwhile, the plan is to import another 100 million overseas non-European, foreign skilled workers into all of North America within the next 8 years. If you people were educated as Scientists and Engineers then you would have been worth a crap. But you’re not. Time for you people to be eliminated for good. When the Eastern Nations who own most of America now decide to take ownership of America, most of you here will not be suffered to live.
Even the domestic food production base of North America has been all but eliminated. 81% of all food consumed by the USA needs to be imported! Those imports will cease when the Economic Collapse and devaluation of the dollar comes forth.
Lack of food itself will be used as a weapon upon North America: Tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of armed and un-armed North America citizens will be worthless when they’re all starved out. Because if not severely weakened, the few who do have farms and food will be killed by the masses who do not.
Doesn’t matter how many people are at hand, when they’re all starved out they will resort to violence and barbarism when they haven’t eaten in days and weeks. This is all coming to North America soon.
America itself was never really a nation, but was set up as a Corporation by the overseas Bankers from day one. It was also planned to be collapsed later on, just like any other Corporation out there.
Those of you who are scoffing at these facts, have another thing coming. I bet you, that most of you are in so much denial about reality and truth, that when all these things to come to pass, most of you will commit suicide.
Some of the people here who know these truths and bleak future for the West, are at least changing their ways somewhat, so that they might be able to survive what is coming. But most of you here are doomed.
Celente is presenting facts. But I know most Americans are lazy, ignorant, delusional, self-centered, stupid criminals and hate living in any truth and any facts.
So good, that is what is going to destroy 90% of you parasites. Keep up the good work, you’ve all mostly signed your own death warrants.
Although this blog is interesting, the truth is that Celente deals with TRENDS, not truth. If you want truth, go to philosophy class. A professor I had at Rutgers once said “it takes genius to state the obvious”, and Celente’s genius is in doing just that. After all, mid-range restaurants did fail, the bottom never did fall out of the luxury market, and Celente’s 2008 prediction of the greatest Depression being upon us has panned out in more ways than one – I think he and Peter Schiff were the only two pundits that were really accurate on that point, but at the time they were laughed off the stage. With tent cities cropping up, farmers cutting back, and third-world countries devolving, one might’ve thought 3 years ago that none of this would be possible.
Celente is way beyond your wee little minds. His forecast trends are at a very high “birds-eye” view. Give it time, wait a minute, it is time! He is accurate! All he really states is to stop depending on the higher power. Have foresight in your life and dont be a parrot for mass media. Buying gold is not a money maker dipshit, its a safe haven. Having Bush Gardens is not a exit of grocery shopping, its a call to action. This article is crap, sorry i wasted my energy…
The person who wrote this article is obviously a Government shill trying to divert people’s attention away from what is really going on in front of us. I’ve listened to Celente the past year and what he says is pretty sound to me.
I’m sick of these optimistic idiots who think if they just believe everything will be fine it will. We’re about to have a huge wake up call here in America.
People here have lived in luxury for too long, while giving the world poverty. If you believe in Karma, or reaping and sowing, you know that everything must come full circle. America is about to get a taste of it’s own medicine very soon!
Stop wasting your time writing about a guy who is just stating his own opinions about the future, and start using your writing ability to expose this wicked government and these Elite Globalists who want to PURPOSELY bring us to our knees so they can bring in their New World Order.
Oh but you’ll probably deny that even exists even though the last 3 presidents have talked about it extensively, along with Henry Kissinger who is saying Obama is the perfect one to bring it in. People strain at a gnat, while they completely ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Reading this article was such a waste of 10 minutes of my time. Write about something more notorious going on in the world, and then maybe I’ll read again in the future.
*I can’t even believe there are this many idiots on the earth*
Wow, is this a hit piece or what? It’s very unconvincing to say the least. For instance. The list of items that Celente alledgedly missed. It’s not a list of “misses”. It’s a whiny diatribe of straw grasping quibbling masquerading as a “gotcha”.
The article is loaded to the core. And the author practices lying by omission. For instance, he attempts a character assassination via “guilt by association” coupled with flat out lying. Celente is not just on Fox News and other “primarily conservative websites”. That’s a plain lie. He’s been on CNN, and gasp, I found him on Air America. Not exactly a right-wing media outlet.
Edward. When you resort to journalistic dishonesty (if we can call this journalism) to this extent, THEN it is appropriate to question motive.
Tell me. What’s the real reason for why you spun this garbage?
This article was written Nov. 13, 2008, and here we are 4 months later and much of what Gerald Celente has said has come to pass. Here’s just one example that you cited he was wrong–but he is right!
“Asked by CBS News in May 2005 to comment upon where Dillard’s planned to go, Celente had this to say: “There is nothing Dillard’s has that you can’t find in 1,000 other places. America is vastly overstored.” Take out “Dillard’s” and sub it in with another department store chain name, and you begin to see what little Celente’s remarks say.”
Stores are closing around the country, and his prediction of “Dead Malls” is right on target. Google “dead malls” and see what you come up with.
this will provide a useful insight, maybe something different…
http://www.squidoo.com/Gerald-Celente-american-collapse
Ed,
Before reading through the replies to your rant, I was expecting (maybe even hoping) to see a lot of support for your POV. But seeing so many folks support Celente gives me pause. What if Celente is right? Ed, what if he is right? Look at what has happened since you wrote this. I’m starting to seriously consider that we may be on the cusp of one of humanity’s most trying times in modern history.
It’s fairly pointless to pull quotes out of context just to take shots at a person.
What’s the point? You seem to be saying that Celente isn’t saying anything that isn’t obvious to everyone. We’ll, file this away and come back in a year, because he’s now predicting food wars and the collapse of the dollar. Time will prove him right or wrong, but you’ve done nothing with your article except waste your own time because you’ve proven nothing.
Nothing Edward Champion says debunks Celente. I was hoping to read about mistakes Celente made but nothing Edward wrote supports his own theories.
At worse, things don’t happen as Edward says and we are none the worse for wear. However, if Celente is correct, then we have been forewarned and forearmed. Only the fool buries his head in the sand. That is my take on Edward Champion who really didn’t add anything that made me change my mind.
Everything else I read and see today, tells me that we are headed towards financial armaggedon. Printing trillions of dollars with nothing to back it up will lead to hyper inflation and possibly the Chinese and Europeans dumping the US dollar. Thanks Congress. Thanks Obama for destroying the future of America.
Genuinely a fraud. Anyone who claims to be able to predict the future is a sham. Why are these people still being taken seriously?! What I hate most about Celente is his fake modesty and that half-smug look on his face. You’re not a futurist, asshole.
lol, wow, funny you wrote an article to discredit celente, however, none of your proof even makes any sense. It’s like a scared little child grasping at word plays for comfort.. don’t prepare then, just distract yourself with the latest pop culture, that’s what the rest of the sheeple are doing anyway..lol.
Gerald Celente is the man. He had been right in his assessments about the future trends since many years now. Perhaps this guy has some uncanny ability or intuition to identify the pattern of the present trends and predict the probable future from it. Again, he doesn’t claim to be true always. These are just his predictions.
However, the way he is predicting great(est) depression without any uncertainty in his eyes, its quite unnerving.
As a non-American observer, I have doubts that you understood Celente’s message. As those folks before me, I expected some more strong points when trying to disarm someone’s opinion.
And for the facts, I must say I was curious on your comment of his former hypothesis, so I checked article from Newsweek Sep 21, 2000 (4th reference), and I’m sorry but I think that you got it all wrong.
I got e-mail from the friend with Celente’s interview about 3 weeks ago. I read it and then check youtube about some of his live interview. The thing that amazes me about him is that for me he is no “doom angel”. And what even more amazes me is that he’s pointing out that it’s all a simple mistake. This crisis is a result of not knowing how the world’s functioning, not knowing the basics of the nature laws. Because the nature law and a fact is that we live in a limited world or planet. The earth resources are limited and not what economics often thinks unlimited. So maybe you do need a swing from total liberation of your market to more regulated market. The only problem is that most of the world has gone American way and now we are all together in problems. Under the pressure of the American capital, European banks have left their conservative way of investment and financing so they are in troubles too.
A way out? I don’t know it. But you can’t make the same mistake over and over and pretend it’s all right. And now you have the situation where the little people bail out big banks and so on. You know, even if I have university diploma I still don’t think it’s normal that I have 10 times bigger salary than a worker in a factory or something like that. He also have all the needs as I do. He wants to buy a house, he wants to have a good pension, health insurance, his kids go to good schools, and why shouldn’t he.
And I must disappoint you but this “corporation” society looks to me very much like socialism in the 80ies in my country. You have so much bureaucracy that no one even knows what are all that people doing there. And don’t forget that office people live on the account of workers. It would be interesting to see the statistics of ratio between workers and corporation staff in the mid 60ies and 70ies and compare it with today’s number.
OK, I could go further, but I think its enough. This is nothing personal, so hope you don’t get offended. Greets from Europe!
Wow I’m impressed with the huge amount of comments on here. I’ve read many Gerald Celente articles and comments and see nothing what the author here portrays as “charlatanism”…
Well, nobody outside the states has heard of this guy until recently (the cynic in me feels that might be because he has translated his books of late). The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I have not seen food riots yet. Nor do I believe that the US is about to become a third world country.
I’m not sure that the US lost the Iraq war either, although it probably lost the peace. And I’d like there to be some evidence that the man predicted the crash of 87. If there is none I don’t believe it.
Don’t get me wrong a lot of what he says has some common sense behind it, but just because somebody turns up on Oprah does not make them the economic Messiah.
You people in the States are just too guilable.
I agree with bganon, I think the same. Just because you are on TV with Oprah makes him the messiah. For crying out loud thats he gets paid to do. He is a public speaker and he has feared you into believing the worst. Why don’t you have some faith obviously he has none. Does’t he realize the God has the ultimate decision and He is in control, NOT Celente, does he have a crystal ball that we don’t know about…….WOW you are right were has he been if he is sooooo renoun………..besides he is a POLITICAL ATHIEST……………THE GUY MAKES ME SICK.
All Celente is doing is predicting trends. He’s not claiming to be the Messiah. Like anyone he’s going to make mistakes, and I don’t feel that anything on the list provided here is that outrageous of claim compared to his accurate predictions. In college I majored in Communication and learned how much the media controls the thought process of so many American people. Celente is simply making predictions and giving people an opinion you’re not going to see on ABC, NBC, or CBS. Don’t take his word as gospel, and don’t become Gerald Celente drone. Take was he has to say into account and think for yourself.
Thank you Mr. Champion and others who remind us that people can spew negatives all day long and all that does is add to more doom and gloom. But God is still on the throne. God is willing and able to meet and exceed people’s needs if they will come to Him and believe. Believe is a verb, which connotes action, meaning you have to do more than just change your thoughts – Although, that is the starting point. We all have to take action and do what we can while continuing to keep The Hope in the forefront of our minds. Don’t allow the bleeding media pull you under with there thwarts of depression, instead take it one day at a time believing to make a positive impact for our country and the world!
Again, Thank You, and God Bless!
Gerald Celente does not make wild accusations. He is not some doom and gloom messiah that you made him out to be. He is an economist that works on facts, every one of his predictions were made on facts and information.
If you cant see the facts right in front of you then you are blind. This man is a genius, he is not going to be right on the ball every time but he is right most of the time.
Instead of slamming this man you should be listening to him, he is one of the few people in this world with a brain. You are all a bunch of idiots, this article has shown me just how stupid most Americans are.
After dissecting both the article and the comments, some questions remain (and there may be more that are also relevant). Is Gerald Celente operating on facts, hunches, or a little bit of both? Which of his statements about the future might be valid? Which might be invalid? Which of those made in the past have been accurate? Which have been inaccurate?
To get to these questions, we need to look at the core of both the comments and the article and dissect the relevant statements.
Starting with comments, let’s take the one made by Scott on April 6th, 2009 at 11:15 am and use it as an example. I’ll remove all emotional wording. Here is how it would read:
“Gerald Celente is an economist that works on facts, every one of his predictions were made on facts and information.”
Without emotion, that is the core of the comment. We can now begin to consider whether or not this statement may or may not be true.
Try this with other comments, no matter how you feel about them or the article. Remove the emotion.
Now on to the article, which is dissected in the same manner. A partial example:
— “Gerald Celente seems to be operating on his hunches. He has been linked from sites like Digg and Reddit. His predictions seem similar to the storyline for Brian Francis Slattery’s new novel, Liberation. By 2012, Celente forecasts: revolution in America, food riots, and tax rebellions. In four years, America will become an undeveloped nation. Holidays will be about food rather than gifts.
Celente is in the media now because he reportedly predicted the 1997 currency crisis in Asia, the subprime mortgage disaster, and the dollar dipping south. Infowars, a website run by radio show host Alex Jones, is also presenting this news. Infowars does not refute Celente’s statements or point to any of his reportedly inaccurate predictions.
Many of Celente’s suggestions seem to be a series of guidelines on how to become a successful futurist. They also look to predict a general events by using language from newspaper stories and hunches.” —
That’s just part of it, and I changed some wording to keep it neutral. It would be good to try this on your own also, as you may do a better job than I have. I’d urge everyone to look at what you read and take it apart in this manner so you can get to the core.
Back to the questions at the beginning of this comment. I don’t think they can be answered by the research in this article or by the comments because there aren’t enough facts in either that are backed by good supportive evidence.
The point to all of this? Let’s work TOGETHER and rationally in order to find out whether any of Gerald Celente’s statements about the future could be valid. Let’s do away with name-calling and sweeping generalizations. (This goes for the article and many of the comments).
Futurist Fraud? He is a trend spotter. He seems to be pretty accurate. I don’t see any fraudulent words. If you had that ability, I think you could make a killing and help others do so too.
Celente takes time to observe what is plainly in front of our eyes, and then takes time to CLEARLY THINK about what he sees. We could all do it if we took time to see what is there, not what we want to be there.
The government is broke and in massive debt.The public is broke and in massive debt.Even i can predict the future,what would you expect to happen?Just like a gamblers optimisim,i`m not broke yet i`ve got another spin.If they thought there was no hope they wouldn`t throw another nickel in…..now can you see their future.
wrong right right wrong who gives a
d m
the system needed to change
the rich get richer and the middle class and poor get nothing
wait till you start talking about the mark of the beast and the end of days and time of the end
then you will have something to complain about
henrymakow.com
goodnewsaboutgod.com
During a depression it is the wealthy that get richer and the poor who get poorer,where is the change?
This is an absolutely terrible article. Your “background check” on Celente fails to pick out any false predictions and just critises some of his quotes saying they were too vague.
Celente looks at today trends and tries to predict what’s going to happen tomorrow, that’s it. Why do you have a problem with that? because it’s not happy ever after?
Oh and the title…
You call him a fraud, what is that based on? From where I’m standing it’s you that’s the fraud.
LOL
Gerald Celente was right on. If you want to write about frauds CNBC or CNN’s financial predictions, they say everything is peachy even as the house burns down…
Their is a simple answer to the problem. The globalists control the money and the polititions in Washington only. Nothing can change that as they all have sold their souls out to the Money Lenders. Now real power lies in the state governments and the states have the right in most cases to succeed from the union with a vote of the people,if they so desire. They need to do that now and get free from the leaches in Wash. Set up their own monitary systems and restore their constitution of states rights arepublic “Of anf for the prople.” Many have that condition on the books. Power is restored to the people over night. Start with your governer and work down.
It is a shame that you cannot be truthful with your insights in light of the economic certainties upon us. How is your 401k doing these days? How is your retirement program looking? Who does your trading for you? Why don’t you trust the Wall Street punks to do it for you? You Sir/Mam have had a reality check and still you don’t see it. Denial is a huge river for plenty of idiots to swim in! What’s that……Oh PT Barnum is calling your name. Here’s to you, hope you have got a bathing suit. Cheers! Sorry, it is the kindest thing I could say about your personal revelations. Don’t look now but your PhD is slipping.
Denial isn’t just a river in Africa now isn’t it? It’s not like we’re in economic trouble, it’s not like talk of revolt is going on in internet forums more and more often every day, it isn’t like people have lost faith in their government, and realize that Obama The Messiah (PBUH) is just as big a fraud as “ZOMG EVUL BUSH NEOCON!111666”. No, we’re all loving this great economic prosperity, and the return of our soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Oh wait…nevermind, all that shit IS happening, and this author is a thumb sucking idiot. It’s ok, when you lose your life savings you can always deal drugs or become a male prostitute.
Oh gosh, you really don’t understand anything at all: there is a difference between wishful thinking and reality. That is why businesses often invite external experts — they are not part of the business and therefore most likely don’t share the same wishful thinking. Gerald Celente over and over tries to explain that. But noone seems to understand how utterly important *AND* hard that is.
Hell! Everbody knows by now that missing regulation lead to this crisis, BUT THEY ARE DROPPING THE REMAINING REGULATIONS (accounting standards) AND DRIVING INTEREST RATES TO ZERO!!!!
Wake up guys. There is nothing magical to predict the greater future (if it is heavily constrained like now), nonetheless 99% of all people just cannot deliver!!
Remember Jim Roger’s comment: if you put 100 intelligent guys into a room and give them all the facts, most of them would not be able to proft from it….
I find your article so far out in left field it is sick. Your information is obsurd. Who do you work for the CIA, CBS, NBC, or ABC. The people have nothing to fear from G. Celente’s words be people like you do have something to fear when the shit hits the fan. I find you to be either ill informed or part of the system who is atempting to control everything. Sorry it won’t work, we have fought in the past and will again for our freedom.
Celente is a parrot who keeps repeating the same lines over and over again in all of his interviews…… Except for one line he screwed up. In some interviews he references purchasing a 1994 Audi a year ago and in another interview he references purchasing a 1994 Volvo a year ago.
Gerald:
I have a gold and silver business, and I just got my first radio talk show with the American Freedom Radio called Real Money Talk. I have heard a lot about you and I would like to know if you would be willing to be a guest on my show. It is every Friday night at 7 – 9 pm. I would be honored if you would grant me an interview. I am the only whistle blower in the gold coin industry and my goal is to have guests on my show who will also tell it like it is just like I do. Could you please get back to me either via email or by phone. You can reach me at 414-234-8267. I am available anything. Looking forward to talking with you. Thanks.
Kal Gronvall
America is borrowing 3 billion dollars a day. Any prosperity left that we see around to is borrowed. The government has printed a trillion dollars that is backed my ZERO nothing. Celente is merely pointing out the ovious and that we will have a collapse because this kind of behaviour is not sustainable. Does the author of this article think the spending levels and debt will result in anything positive. Very strange article indeed.
America is borrowing 3 billion dollars a day. Any prosperity left that we see around is borrowed. The government has printed a trillion dollars that is backed my ZERO nothing. Celente is merely pointing out the ovious and that we will have a collapse because this kind of behaviour is not sustainable. Does the author of this article think the spending levels and debt will result in anything positive. Very strange article indeed.
Is anyone aware that the Bible has something to say about the future? Be it the future of man or this current age, it is there in writing.
It’s all there.
I agree with the last poster. The answer to EVERY question is in the Bible if you just look for it. I also have to say that, so far, I greatly admire Gerald Celente. And I think you should re-think your ideas, those of you who believe Mr. Celente is just charging people left and right. Take a look at hhis Web site. You can purchase a whole year of his reports for just $99. I am sure his corporate clients pay so much more than that, bt I think $99 is a bargain for the kind of information you get. Being aware means having an open mind. Even if the ideas you hear disagree with what you think you know to be true.
Well, I have been listening to a friend of mine, who has been spouting GC for a long time. Many times I have heard him say, “He is never wrong!” and backs that up with, “I have checked him out!” One of you is a big fat liar. Or just making things up.
And I will add this, we have pleanty of trouble out there, many enemies who want to see us fall.
Gee, I sure wish someone would begin to offer good advice, [like get all th politicans on a cruise ship,promise them anything that gets them on it, and let them set sail without a rudder like they are doing to us.
Advice taken please
Call BR-459 or write com.post.com
This article is really gay.
Gerald Celente was wrong? You sir are either an idiot or have self-served interests in the global depression that is upon us.
I don’t care what your argument is. In order for you to obtain and semblance of credibility you must explain how the government’s borrowing and spending of money it does not have will eliminate the problem of the government borrowing money and spending what it does not have t bail out the corporate elitists who have tanked the economy because of their own greed and corruption.
The Mad Ape
OK. Nice article. But what did YOU say? Nothing. You tried to discredit someone by saying “all he does is read 2 papers” and that he makes generalized statements that are easy. So, does this make him wrong? Not one time did you say that he was wrong about his prediction for the future of America. Celente himself says on his website that they make predictions based on CURRENT TRENDS. In order to know current trends you have to read current publications and make statements base don them. What’s wrong with that? It sounds like you just have a problem with what the doom and gloom because you don’t want to believe it. Fine, that’s your peroggative. But just remember…EVERY EMPIRE HAS FAILED. That’s right….what makes us any different. I hear all of these whiny babies with their replies about “Celente is so negative….doom and gloom and fear don’t solve anything”. Really? You people need a friggen wakeup call. The citizens of every failed empire watched their country burn thinking all the while that everything would be ok. Sometimes you have to strike fear into peoples hearts to open their eyes. I should just save my breath….you people are to far gone to bother with. So, go ahead, spen your precious stimulus checks. Blow all of your money. Reinvest in the stock market. When it all comes crashing down don’t come crying to me. The sad thing is we’d be able to stop this whole mess if people would get off their lazy butts and stand up to the madness in our Government’s policies.
Edward Champion? Never heard of him. Gerald Celente I have heard of and watched. He has been right most of the time.
This is a strange sort of hit piece article. The things it quotes in the bullet points actually show Celente being correct as far back as 1993. Yet smear language is used as if name-calling were enough to force the reader to discard everything Celente has said.
Really cheap and cheesy attempt Mr. Champion. Try to do better with the facts.
CELENTE IS AN IDIOT!!! Don’t let our country be manipulated by this ridiculous opportunist taking advantage of scare tactics. Yes, things are bad, the economy is awful and our country is in peril but seriously, America is not going to turn into a bunch of starving animalistic humans in 2012, although Mr. Celente is banking on you believing him, so much so, that he’s making money off his doomsday predictions. Simply said, this guy is an asshole and if you believe him and feed into this, you’re more so. Be a better person, IGNORE THE IDIOT CELENTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where does this wingnut get off trying to scare the holy you what out of us because of his so call trends…Celente is predicitng the end of times for America.. AMericans will rise to prevent this from happening .. When push comes up to shove, we will show our true grit .. We are resilent and when we get mad as hell. we will kick ass on anybody and everbody who gets in the way.. Celent is just trying to push his name and his ware on us and all He wants to do is to make money off us.. This guy should be tarred and feathered..and made to have lunch with Obama Peace out…
It is ashame that you aren’t giving Celente the credit he is genuinely due and that you have only sited small, insignificant instances of his track record and conveniently left out the truth. Let’s look at the facts:
Gerald Celente has accurately forecast hundreds of social, business, consumer, environmental, economic, political, entertainment, technology trends, etc. Among them:
Celente coined the term “clean foods,” in 1993 and predicted sustained growth in organic products in 1988. When gold was at $275 per ounce in 2002, Celente said the price had bottomed and forecast the beginning of the Gold Bull Run. Since that time, with pinpoint accuracy, he said when, why – and how high – gold would go.
Years before Starbucks, Celente forecast the popularity of gourmet coffee and decades before Pepsi and Coke got into the water business he predicted the “Big Boom in Bottled Water.”
On the geopolitical and economic fronts, Celente and The Trends Research Institute are credited with forecasting many major trends, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, the last two recessions, the dot-com meltdown, the 1997 Asian currency crisis, the 1987 world stock market crash, increased terrorism against America, “Crusades 2000,” and the quagmire in Iraq … before war began.
Gerald Celente has also accurately forecast many real estate trends, the growth in the second home market and hundreds of other social, business, fashion, consumer and entertainment trends.
Celente is merely predicting what is coming based on what is taking place. Opening ones eyes to the growing to reality is never easy….but eventually becomes necessary when it is finally forced upon you.
Good luck to you sir and all those whom chose to ignore the watchmen of our time. There is a growing enlightenment taking place across our nation about what is ahead and I chose not to ignore it, but rather, prepare for it.
Great “objective” article. “Just because GC is generally right, clearly he is a fraud.” How is he making money on these predictions? I haven’t paid a cent, and I don’t believe there is a Celente, Inc. that I’m being asked to invest in. Just because he is making predictions a 13 year old could make doesn’t make him a 13 year old. I’m sure Obama, Geithner, Pelosi, and Summers will get us out of this one anyway. Hah!
To the people that point fault at Celente he provides a disclaimer…these are trends that may or may not happen. He basis his trend forecasts on current events and projects them forward.
His track record is better than anyone else that does this. People who criticize him fail to look at the big picture…globalization and the puppets (politicians) who are controlled by the globalists.
Celente’s latest trend forecast is that the only way out of the massive bailout bubble that Obama/Bush INC has created is another war. Are you scared? You should be? Are you prepared? You should be.
Google “The Obama Deception” and wake up before your nightmares kill you. Obama is a liar. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Being dismissive of this fact will be your undoing.
The Mad Ape
Self denial , thats all i read , people who are so afraid of the truth that they run from it and call it ‘ doom ‘ and ‘ gloom ‘ Its odd that everyone thinks we can go on forever consuming MORE THAN WE PRODUCE . Spending MORE THAN WE EARN
its very odd…….this webpage speaks FEAR to me , its about saying celente is a wrong becuase deep down your AFRAID he isnt.,
Ive been following G.C. for about 12 months now & all i have to saw is, we as a world are in more shit than a faggots finger.
F the internet that gave us these crazys like GERALD CELENTE and infowars who make so much money off others parrnoia (when times get a lil tuff) and others gullable minds.
More importantly I thank edrants for exposing these creeps for who they are(to the suckers). He should be payed because if you couldnt use your own mind and sort all this out after seeing all sides opinonis and arguements then you need help and you should thank Edrants for giving it to you. ntroll
Perhaps heed the advice and take precautions, but be aware of the journalism that represents these things, don’t be dumbed down like the rest. So make informative decisions and look at more than one source to create that opinion. Even if he is 10% (GC) accurate at this rate it may be worth considering spending habits and changes. We are as we know it a generation of spending, entertainment and debt. Be are by no means conservative like our grandparents generation. We are spoilt and don’t know how to keep our hands out the cookie jar. We need to make better choices (especially on a financial level ). Business English, Media Studies and Finances 101 should be compulsory in very institution. The reality is, people are being made redundant and we do need to cut back on spending and increase saving. This economic crisis will probably take four years to come right. Its like any cycle, best we make heed of the information out there, however within moderation. And optimism is probably not a bad place to be rather than to be succumbed and consumed by FEAR.
So much negatism! Is there anyone who would like to change things around? I’d like to join a positive group for change. Know of anyone?
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This article is just a vengeful comment on someone who was better in guessing what is around the corner. The author has nothing to place him in a position to write this article with any authority on the subject whatsoever. That doesn’t mean that Mr. Celeste is some kind of “genius” or prophet. It merely means that Mr. Celeste had worked harder and got more predictions (in an economic/financial/social way, not in a religous one) right or close to it. Mr. Champion was not even that good.
The fact is, Mr. Celente is not the only one who got a few analysis right and correctly advised what could happen. Quite a few international, particularly european analysts were voicing their concerns about the wrongs US governments and economy were committing for decades with their fantases about how their is the “righteous” way to manage domestic, and international economy. And many had warned, not predicted, that the path the US is going on is a self-destruction waiting to happen. I am personally surprised the US actually lasted this long. It only did thanks to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, which pumped false “profits” into the coffers of individuals presiding over large private companies which were receiving government orders for goods and services paid for by the loans the US government took. That is the safe way to implosion. Now, the US government is pumping more money into the failed private enterprise which only proved that private enterprise is just a nick name for corruption and crime, and is oeroding what is left with such ignorance and disregard for basics of prudent financial management, it is worse than Germany in 1920′, or Zimbabwe today.
By far worse. And we know what is the situation in Zimbabwe today.
This Celente character is taken straight from the 1976 movie ‘Network.’ Where you have this prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times.
Wow, that has to be one of the most dishonest (or ill-informed) hit-pieces I’ve read about the man. While it’s true that his background is shrouded in secrecy, his predictions for the last decade and more are amply documented (both in written and video media) and, contrarily to what you suggest, more often than not very specific and falsifiable. He supports his trends analysis with evidence, fundamental and circumstancial data, doesn’t balk at naming names, etc. And he gets lambasted by the likes of you because he didn’t get approval from “mainstream economists” who time and time again failed to predict dramatic trend reversals. It is my opinion that he is the opposite of a charlatan. He doesn’t get mesmerized by political dog-and-pony shows, and stays true to economic good sense and fundamentals, like the fact that the physical economy, savings and trade surplus are the backbones of a sound economic system. Not the indefinite growth of the money-changing and bailout industry… You don’t need a PhD in economics to realize that. Just good old mom’n pop logic and common sense. Exactly what so-called financial and economic policy pundits, so heavily invested in our gigantic Ponzi scheme of a monetary and financial system, lackeys to monopoly and crony “capitalists”, can’t live with.
And when it comes to Infowars and journalistic integrity, at least they dare to venture where no one in the mainstream press ever goes, i.e. actually reading the bills and international treaties, scrutinizing global policy-makers and governing bodies, accessing and publicizing declassified government information and invaluable data illustrating the pervasive influence of eugenicists in our current-day societies (something that, apart from the great Edwin Black, very few people seem to do), for example. Much more than can be said about you, Sir.
An old Japanese koan states: “If you don’t know where you are going, you will never be lost.” Gerald Clemente has been around for a long time. He does his homework and he has a gift for discerning the wheat from the chaff of current events and trends. Those who chose to follow other trend researchers are free to do so. Perhaps the author of this piece which demonizes Mr. Clemente and his work might want to look at his own personal biases.
I think its impossible for anyone to be 100% correct all the time. Celente’s doom and gloom stories are being misinterperted. What he says does not make him brilliant, he just has common sense compared to economist who think we will recover in the fall con sidering we are in debt 23 TRILLION DOLLARS. Another point that Celente makes is that we dont produce anthing so we just keep going into more trade debt and in addition we are selling off assets in order to pay for anything. What is wrong with this analysis? Its not brilliant, its just the facts. The banks are falling apart with 50 closings per week. FDIC will go broke because it is guaranteeing all the bad debts made by these banks plus all of our deposits. If it was running short on money only 8 months ago, well you could argue that FDIC is backed by the US government, but where is our government getting this money. Everyone who critizes Celenete is forgetting that the Fed is printing money with nothing to back it. SO the TARP is not 700 billion, its at least 12 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THE FED WILL NOT DISCLOSE WHO GOT THE MONEY. The reason I believe Celente is correct is because we have an economy based on consumer spending. If you dont want to listen to Celente than listen to Thom Hartmann a brilliant wonderful radio talk show host. He said an economy based on consumption cannot be sustained. This is a fact because you dont make anything and a country’s wealth is based on production. Why is CHINA SO WEALTHY? BECAUSE THEY MAKE ALMOST EVERY PRODUCT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES. DONT FORGET OUR DOLLAR IS TANKING. On a more optimistic view, these are good things because I always said that in order for things to get better, like healthcare, good paying jobs, strong unions, responsible government, ALTERTIVE FUELS, we have to have a major meltdown in our economy to turn things around. So do not be negative about this and understand that this is an opportunity to put the NEOCONS IN THIS COUNTRY OUT OF BUSINESS FOR GOOD!!!!! TAKE CARE TO ALL AND GOOD LUCK!!!
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but looking back at the events of the last two years or so, it is easy to see how all of the signs were there. The economy was sort of operating as an extremely balanced system where if any one thing went out of whack, the whole thing would collapse.
Anybody around today, if they could go back in time 3 or 4 years, would be able to see the signs from looking, so I think this article is just criticizing someone who has the interest and general/specialized knowledge, the time to pay enough attention, and enough marketing sense to get people to listen to him. Other than the marketing, he probably is not much different from most other people. A lot of the people I am sure, just regular folks like really smart economics undergrads, or retireies with a lot of time on their hands saw it coming but don’t have the standing to get any attention about it.
Gerald Celente is above and beyond 100% correct. It’s just hard for people to swallow the truth. I’d like to read what people have to say about him in a year or two. America is imploding as we speak. Get a grip Liberal dreamers. Obama is a fraud.
Just read an article about Detroit on CNN entitled, “Hunger Hits Detroit’s Middle Class”. This article describes how the economy is taking to Militia-style protection in order to guard food. There isn’t a major food chain supermarket in the city! The residents have to buy food from corner stores like a 7-11. Are food riots possible? Yes, and it will be coming to a city near you!
I believe Gerald Celente speaks the truth. I also believe the dollar will continue to fall and hyperinflation has just begun! And Sheeple believe Obama will fix us???? He’s on a spending spree and vacationing around the world!!
People believe his administration cares about your health? They could give a rat’s ass! All they see is taking control of one-seventh of our economy! Find out who Obama is really working for. He didn’t get into office by just having the qualifications of a “Union Organizer”. Wake up and smell the truth!
Celente makes ALOT of predictions. Just go have a look at his newsletter (the free sample ones ofcourse). I would like to know how many of those numerous forecasts actually turned out to be accurate. Sure he may have gotten the 2008 melt-down right, but am willing to bet many of his other forecasts turned out to be wrong.
When you make as many “predictions” as he does your bound to get a few of them right!
this article is stupid! keep dreaming….A fool will believe lies just because they cause less stress to his cranium…this article should be removed for sheer stupidity
Dear Mr. Champion,
There is intense battling about the subject of “Gerald Celente” in Wikipedia (as of Aug 16th 2009). Check out the Gerald Celente page, and particularly about the discussions. Click the “Discussion” tab next to the article. Celente (apparently himself) made a statement complaining about his own article (see near bottom of discussion). Check it out.
This is classical example of demagogy.
Gerald Celente has been right about humongous issues right of the dot over the last 30 years of his business. Your remarks about him being a “fraud” is backed up by petty statements that don’t truly prove your point in any way because he has been right about so much more. Your just another who believes everything will be alright, and it will, but it wont happen easily, and first we need a lot of reform which currently the government has refused to do.
Celentes predictions are based on TRENDS..But hey, if you truly believe all is right with the world, that everything will magically turn around, then by all means bet your futures on it. but don’t expect the people who heed the warnings to welcome you in with open arms. The nay sayers will be sleeping in the unmade, cold, unprepared bed that they are making for themselves.
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
My Gerald Celente like forecasts is tougher sledding for the Socialist Assclown Nobama. His lies re demonizing the insurance companies and many other assorted lies are being exposed by FACTS. So, as the Assclown Nobama continues to persist in his socialist hijacking of the govt, there will be a mighty schism just as one of Mr. Celente’s forecast spells out as: class war, social unrest, a civil war between “the working and thinking americans who believe in a Republic and the Constitution + amendments” VERSUS the “nobamaZombies, the freeloaders who want govt (i.e. the taxpaying, working americans) to pay for their healthcare, their other freebies….) AND you know economics don’t work that way. The Assclown Nobama will go into bigger trillions of deficit and DEBTs for his socialized programs…and Bankrupt the Country, Destroy the USD…THERE will be extreme economic and social repercussions for these ASSCLOWN tactics of Nobama. And it is all very UGLY.
Get Rid of the Socialist Assclown Nobama. #1 Solution to a Major Cause of our deepening Financial and Economic Collapse. Get Rid of the Fed Reserve and the politicians…the Other Major Causes for our Deep Financial Crisis/Economic Depression and do NOT allow those who caused these problems to be anointed as the “solvers” of the problems they created!!!!!
Last Thing, Get GUNS, AMMO, FOOD, WATER, ENERGY Sources, and gold/silver. Because the ASSCLOWN Nobama and Emanuel are coming after you and they want to take away your freedoms and liberties.
BET on IT!!!! As Brother Gerald Celente says, we are going to be in American Revolution II.
Never mind how (relatively) accurate Celente’s so-called “predictions” are. He is one of the proverbial infinite number of monkeys at the infinite bank of typewriters. I recall enduring one of his rants on Coast-to-Coast where he predicted total financial and social collapse within 3 months. That was a year ago. It didn’t happen. He was wrong.
It’s obvious that many of you commenting here are not financial wizards, yet you could have achieved the same success rate had your private concerns been logged for all to see and judge the way Celente’s have.
Since the days of Watergate and Iran-Contra, legions of wary citizens who have the admirable ability to think for themselves have been justifiably suspicious and distrustful of the covert manipulations of our so-called institutions, both private and public. This suspicion and mistrust is unfortunately what makes so many otherwise rational people vulnerable to the gloom-and-doom prognostications of irresponsible media whores like Celente and Mr. Paleo-wingnut, resulting in the ridiculous tax revolts and tea parties that unfortunately reaffirm the sobering truth about the collective intelligence of mobs.
The federal government itself is not solely to blame for letting things get to this point, although it has been a rather indulgent parent, unwittingly contributing to petulant free-market corporate behavior.
Kudos to commenters JKL, Scott Brown and Joanne, who decry the counterproductive and mean-spirited negativism espoused by Celente, et al. Sound the alarms, yes, but don’t wallow in despair. Recognize the warning signs, and steel your resolve to overcome adversity in the same way the founding fathers did, with ingenuity, courage and optimism.
If Jesus were to return at this moment, he would shake his head in disappointment at those who are doing nothing but hoarding gold and building survival shelters. Have his teachings fallen of deaf ears?
Sir;
One of your commentators posted this:
” Great futurists like Alvin Toffler or Ray Kurzweil spend the vast majority of their time talking to people who are much smarter than themselves. ”
…Much smarter than themselves???!
The “eggheads” and the “Financial-wiz-kids” have perepetuated this so-called “shell-game” long enough…THEY saw the current collapse coming, yes you can bet on that.
The difference?…They weren’t honest enough to alert anyone, no…they didn’t have the “Balls” to face the truth.
Mr.Celente has balls..as far as smarts goes he’s way ahead of those Ivy league assholes any day.
As far as “talking to people who are much smarter than themselves”, there’s the “elitist” mentality again…much the same as you exhibit dear blogger.
Your arrogance with regard to YOUR judgement smells a lot like “penis envy”, and your smear of Mr. Celente is without warrant.
BTW: Mr. Celente predicted much of today’s fiscal skullduggery as far back as July 9th,2002.
It’s based on “common sense”.
Get off the anti-depressants, and look at the real world, which, coincidentally is not a Walt Disney Movie about the wealthy and powerful anymore.
So put your helmet on and get into the game boy!
You’ll get over yourself.
And Anthony P:
Tax revolts are NOT “ridiculus” as you state, how dare you reference Jesus to gain credibility in your idiotic assertions.
You sir are an idiot.
Celente? HA HA HA
If you want to learn stuff, listen to Marc Faber.
This post sets up red herring after red herring. Isolating statements that seem obvious and saying, “isn’t that obvious” is more an indictment of the author than the subject.
If you want to show that Celente has a bad track record, you need to show a list of his predictions that failed to happen and you haven’t done that.
Use of the expression “wingnut” is telling. Obviously the author of this post has a leftist political agenda and Celente said something that rubs him the wrong way.
Unless predicting events in some specific field or industry, using methods which are commonly recognized and accepted by experts, “predictions” of the nature mentioned in the article can only be non-specific. Celente is on FOX and other outlets because he is considered to be entertaining. I’m only amazed that he is able to make a living at this, because he is mostly repeating himself to the letter, over and over, in every interview. “Printing money out of the thin air”, “I’m a Bronx boy”, “when people have nothing else to lose, they lose it”, etc.