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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.
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
Gerald 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 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
Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today's Trends (1991), ISBN978-0446392877
References
^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
^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