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Gerald Celente (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster,[1][2] publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant[3] and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other important events.
Gerald Celente | |
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| Born | November 29, 1946 |
| Occupation | Trend forecaster |
Background
editCelente was born in an Italian American family in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He had early political experience running a mayoral campaign in Yonkers, New York,[when?] and served as executive assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate.[when?]
From 1973 to 1979, Celente traveled between the major US cities of Chicago, Illinois and the United states capital, Washington, D.C. as a government affairs specialist.[4] In 1980, Celente founded The Trends Research Institute (at first called the Socio-Economic Research Institute of America), now located in Kingston, New York, publisher of the Trends Journal which forecasts and analyzes business, socioeconomic, political, and other trends.[5]
Forecasting
editGerald Celente runs a website for financial related content where events are "forecasted" with unknown partners and financial backing offering real world commentary and a service to, "monetize your social media, blog, database, or even your social circle." [1][non-primary source needed]
Hugo Lindgren and ABC News have labelled Celente's predictions "pessimism porn" for their stark pessimism and for the imagined/alleged eschatological "thrill" or opportunity some people might receive from imagining his predictions of the collapse of civil society in the wake of a global economic crisis.[6][7]
His forecasts since 1993 have included predictions about terrorism, economic collapses and war. More recent forecasts involve fascism in the United States, food riots and tax revolts.[3][8][9][10] Celente has long predicted global anti-Americanism, a failing economy and immigration woes in the U.S.
In 2009 Celente predicted turmoil from the upcoming election of Barack H. Obama.[citation needed]
He was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV talk-shows such as Fox News Sunday and Glenn Beck's television program.[citation needed]
In April 2009 Celente wrote, "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."[11]
Celente has said, "smaller communities, the smaller groups, the smaller states, the more self-sustaining communities, will 'weather the crisis in style' as big cities and hypertrophic suburbias descend into misery and conflict", and forecasts "a downsizing of America".[9]
Publications
edit- Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today's Trends (1991), ISBN 978-0446392877
References
edit- ^ Alderman, Leslie, ""Seven great businesses for you to start in 1998"". Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), money.cnn.com, 15 December 1997, retrieved 3 August 2009 - ^ Hopkins, Steve, "Doctor doom – For 2008, Gerald Celente predicts the total collapse of an already damaged economy", WeeklyBeat.net, 23 February 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ a b Naughton, Keith, "Can Toyota Get Its Mojo Back?", Newsweek, 17 January 2000, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ Jones, Alex, Alex Jones show Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, KLBJ (AM), Fascism has come to America, 9 June 2010.
- ^ Thompson, Carolyn, "Profiting from seeing into future... Trends translate into predictions of the demands to come", Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 3D, 19 September 1990
- ^ Pessimism Porn: A soft spot for hard times, Hugo Lindgren, New York, February 9, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012
- ^ Pessimism Porn? Economic Forecasts Get Lurid, Dan Harris, ABC News, April 9, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012
- ^ Bader, Jenny Lyn, "Ideas & trends – Forget the millennium. Try to predict one week", New York Times, 26 December 1999, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ a b Ketcham, Christopher, "Trends for downsizing the US: The Bright side of the panic of '08 Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", atlanticfreepress.com, 27 January 2008, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ McGrath, Ben, "American chronicles – The dystopians" (p. 41, mentions Celente), New Yorker, 26 January 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ Celente, Gerald, "Celente calls for 'revolution' as the only solution[permanent dead link]", 14 April 2009, retrieved 16 August 2009