{{Short description|American trend forecaster}} {{Lead too short|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox person |name=Gerald Celente |image=Gerald Celente RT interview.jpg |alt= |caption= |birth_name= |birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|11|29}} |birth_place=The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S. |other_names= |known_for= |occupation=Trend forecaster |parents= }} '''Gerald Celente''' (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster,<ref name="Leslie Alderman">Alderman, Leslie, {{cite web |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/12/15/236115/index.htm |title="Seven great businesses for you to start in 1998" |access-date=2009-08-05 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813230048/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/12/15/236115/index.htm |archive-date=August 13, 2009 }}, money.cnn.com, 15 December 1997, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref><ref name="Hopkins">Hopkins, Steve, "[http://www.weeklybeat.net/2008/01/18/coudoctordoom.html Doctor doom – For 2008, Gerald Celente predicts the total collapse of an already damaged economy]", WeeklyBeat.net, 23 February 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref> publisher of the ''Trends Journal'', business consultant<ref name="Keith Naughton">Naughton, Keith, "[http://www.newsweek.com/id/98514/2000-12-14_happy_new_year__or__01_to_fo.html Can Toyota Get Its Mojo Back?]", ''Newsweek'', 17 January 2000, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref> 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,{{when|date=November 2017}} and served as executive assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate.{{when|date=November 2017}}
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.<ref name="Jones11172008">Jones, Alex, ''[http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/06/gerald-celente-on-alex-jones-show-09.html Alex Jones show] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613223233/http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/06/gerald-celente-on-alex-jones-show-09.html |date=2010-06-13 }}'', KLBJ (AM), Fascism has come to America, 9 June 2010.</ref> 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.<ref>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</ref>
==Forecasting== His forecasts since the 1980s have included the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008 financial crisis.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96-eB86_Sg |title=Gerald Celente - Trend Forcaster - Crash Proof Prosperity |date=2011-02-07 |last=crashproofwealth |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLiynLAqWaQ |title=ABC Accuses Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente of Pessimism Porn ! What do you think |date=2009-04-12 |last=MsticalPrincess |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvZwo2qhIo |title=Gerald Celente Predicts '08 Panic |date=2008-11-11 |last=Gerald Celente |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref> More recent forecasts involve fascism in the United States, food riots and tax revolts.<ref name="Keith Naughton" /><ref>Bader, Jenny Lyn, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/weekinreview/ideas-trends-forget-the-millennium-try-to-predict-one-week.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Ideas & trends – Forget the millennium. Try to predict one week]", ''New York Times'', 26 December 1999, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref><ref name="Christopher Ketcham">Ketcham, Christopher, "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090303234515/http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3311/81 Trends for downsizing the US: The Bright side of the panic of '08]}}", atlanticfreepress.com, 27 January 2008, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref><ref>McGrath, Ben, "[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_mcgrath American chronicles – The dystopians]" (p. 41, mentions Celente), ''New Yorker'', 26 January 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009</ref> Celente has long predicted global anti-Americanism, a failing economy and immigration woes in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhikKR9p9I |title=Gerald Celente’s Final Warning: Greatest Depression, Banking Crisis, Gold Surge in 2026 |date=2026-04-01 |last=ITM TRADING, INC. |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
Over the years, he has made recurring guest appearances on major television news networks, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and ABC News, and has been featured on programs hosted by popular figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Judge Andrew Napolitano.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96-eB86_Sg |title=Gerald Celente - Trend Forcaster - Crash Proof Prosperity |date=2011-02-07 |last=crashproofwealth |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NViM3t2AbqE |title=1 OF 2 GERALD CELENTE ON FREEDOM WATCH WITH JUDGE NAPOLITANO |date=2009-09-28 |last=TheDollarisdead |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref> He has described himself as a political atheist, distancing himself from both parties, which he views as different faces of the same underlying problem.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qOqwspJCA |title=Gerald Celente: Political Atheism |date=2014-05-30 |last=misesmedia |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
Robert Kiyosaki has called the ''Trends Journal'' a publication that can change the way readers see the world and a great investment.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/1167175882 |title=Subscribe to The Trends Journal |language=en |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=vimeo.com}}</ref> Celente’s work has also been praised by other prominent figures in finance and media, including Peter Schiff and Max Keiser.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebvqn8_o7EM |title=Gerald Celente On the Edge with Max Keiser - 20 August 2010 |date=2010-08-22 |last=Trends Journal |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHnQ4DoGhm8 |title=Economic Meltdown 2014 Financial Collapse Gerald Celente Peter Schiff |date=2014-10-27 |last=Gold And Silver Market |access-date=2026-05-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
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."<ref name="e2ma 20090413">Celente, Gerald, "[http://app.e2ma.net/campaign/21873.65e16859bf3662184d4fb59c6e1f8dd4 Celente calls for 'revolution' as the only solution]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", 14 April 2009, retrieved 16 August 2009</ref>
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".<ref name="Christopher Ketcham" />
==Publications== * ''Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today's Trends'' (1991), {{ISBN|978-0446392877}}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== * [http://www.trendsresearch.com/ trendsresearch.com] * {{C-SPAN|52682}}
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