Gerald Celente

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
Born (1946-11-29) November 29, 1946
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationTrend forecaster

Background

Celente 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, and served as executive assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate.

From 1973 to 1979, Celente traveled between the major US cities of Chicago, Illinois and 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

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][6][7][8] Celente has long predicted global anti-Americanism, a failing economy and immigration woes in the U.S.

In 2009 Celente predicted turmoil which he described as "Obamageddon", and he was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV shows such as Fox News Sunday and Glenn Beck's television program. 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."[9] 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".[7]

Hugo Lindgren and ABC News have labelled Celente's predictions "pessimism porn" for their doom and the alleged eschatological thrill some people receive from imagining his predictions of the collapse of civil society in the wake of a global economic crisis.[10][11]

Celente established the weekly Trends Journal containing political, economic and social research, analysis, and forecasts. The publication's slogan is "History Before It Happens". It was established in 1980 as a periodical and reflects the opinions of Celente and his Trends Research Institute.

The Research Institute engages in trend forecasting across a wide range of topics including global economics to geopolitics, to health and education etc. It also organizes keynote speaker engagements, and symposiums and engages in private consultations for business and for individuals. Gerald Celente is its founder and director.

Publications
  • Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today's Trends (1991), ISBN 978-0446392877
  • Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century (1997), ISBN 978-0446519014
  • What Zizi Gave Honeyboy: A True Story about Love, Wisdom, and the Soul of America (2002), ISBN 978-0066212661

References
  1. Alderman, Leslie, ""Seven great businesses for you to start in 1998"". Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-05.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), money.cnn.com, 15 December 1997, retrieved 3 August 2009
  2. 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
  3. Naughton, Keith, "Can Toyota Get Its Mojo Back?", Newsweek, 17 January 2000, retrieved 3 August 2009
  4. Jones, Alex, Alex Jones show Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, KLBJ (AM), Fascism has come to America, 9 June 2010.
  5. 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
  6. Bader, Jenny Lyn, "Ideas & trends – Forget the millennium. Try to predict one week", New York Times, 26 December 1999, retrieved 3 August 2009
  7. 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
  8. McGrath, Ben, "American chronicles – The dystopians" (p. 41, mentions Celente), New Yorker, 26 January 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009
  9. Celente, Gerald, "Celente calls for 'revolution' as the only solution", 14 April 2009, retrieved 16 August 2009
  10. Pessimism Porn: A soft spot for hard times, Hugo Lindgren, New York, February 9, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012
  11. Pessimism Porn? Economic Forecasts Get Lurid, Dan Harris, ABC News, April 9, 2009; accessed July 8, 2012
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