Gerald Celente

Gerald Celente (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other important events.

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 the United states capital, Washington, D.C. as a government affairs specialist. 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.

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." 

Hugo Lindgren and ABC News, Siding financially with economic interests outside the United States and from an admittedly detached and diluted perspective, 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.

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. 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 Barrack H. Obama, siding with republican and non-idealist views, he seems to focus heavily on trade matters and he acts in the sphere of financial markets. He was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV talk-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."

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".

Publications

 * Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today's Trends (1991), ISBN 978-0446392877