Bitcoin.com News interviewed Gerald Celente. Celente is a popular trend forecaster who also publishes the Trends Journal. During a telephone conversation, Celente discussed the uncertainty surrounding the global economy after governments worldwide locked down the world’s citizens over the Covid-19 pandemic, shut down businesses and injected trillions into the economy. There are many topics covered, including gold, Bitcoin, the pandemic and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. According to the trends forecaster, World War III is already underway and people will not unite in order to promote peace around the world. Celente said that real change is not possible if people rely only on hope. Instead, they must make a stand for it.
Gerald Celente, Trend Forecaster, Talks about the Economy, Covid 19, Great Resets, Gold, Bitcoin, and Other Topics
Bitcoin.com News (BCN), What are your thoughts on the current state of the global economy?
Gerald Celente (GC):In 2000, Trends Journal forecasted this. People are forgetting that hundreds of millions, or even billions, lost their livelihoods due to the Covid War. They did nothing to stop it except to pump a trillion dollars worth of monetary methadone into equity markets via their bond-buying programs and keep interest rates at negative or zero.
To keep the economy artificially inflated, governments continue to pump in trillions more money. It should have crashed — You got some little jerks telling you: “We’re gonna flatten the curve, we are making up this crap! We’re gonna lock you down. Your actions are an insignificant piece of garbage. Meanwhile, the big guys who give me money that morons and imbeciles call campaign contributions” — that adults call “bribes and payoffs” — “they can stay open.”
“We’ll wipe out businesses from coast to coast around the world! Oh, you want to go to a dry cleaner now?” In the United States, a third of them went out of business. It’s true. But why is that? Is it because people don’t work in offices anymore? Oh, office occupancy rate… Depending on the numbers you see and what crap you swallow — around 50%. You mean all the businesses that used to rely on millions and millions of commuters, can no longer rely on them and they are now out of business… Yeah we’re not going to write about that, as a matter of fact, what we’re gonna do is every time there’s a problem, we’re gonna blame it on the pandemic.
“Oh it’s a result of the pandemic,” they say. “The supply chain issues are a result of the pandemic.”
That’s not a result of the pandemic — it’s a result of you little political pieces of crap that shut down everything and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of millions. They took the joy out life, freaking out the people. Little kids are growing up all screwed up, masked up, vaxxed up, and f***ed up. That’s a big part of it. This is what people forget to realize: this was happening before the Covid War.
Look at these facts. What was it like to have seven or nine consecutive GDP drops in India before Covid? Oh and a place called Germany, the richest economy in Europe… Oh, they were a fraction away from going into an official recession in 2019. All the money they were investing in the repo market was forgotten. What exactly is a repo marketplace? They give Wall Street gambling addicts and gamblers free money to play. They couldn’t give them enough. Between September 2019 and January 2020 they brought in $7 trillion. Remember 2018’s worst December, which was the most recent in decades? It was back in 2018, when Donald Trump forced Jerome Powell, Fed chief of the central banks, to reduce interest rates. He did it in January of 2019 and artificially juiced them up — yeah that’s right.
Now they’re raising interest rates and you are watching commodity prices collapsing one after another from corn to cotton — It’s across the board.
BCN: What is the reason that U.S. President Joe Biden, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell refuse to admit that America is currently in recession? Are you sure they’ll ever admit that?
GC: For the same reason that they wouldn’t admit that there was inflation. They are not going to admit there’s a recession. Look at all the crap they spewed out — They said that inflation was ‘temporary,’ that it was ‘transitory.’ They were making this crap up. They weren’t so stupid. It was obvious to them. They didn’t do it because the economies would have crashed if they pushed up interest rates. It won’t be official until it meets the official characterization of a recession, and that’s two-quarters of negative GDP growth. It was a negative quarter for Germany’s GDP in 2019, and it then grew 0.1% during the previous quarter. You can not officially label it a recession.
The oil price is falling when you consider raw material prices such as corn, copper, cotton and crude. The slump in major industrial materials racked up its worst quarter since the panic of 08’.
BCN: What do you think about today’s fiat currencies and the turbulence they face?
GC:There is no competition for the dollar. It’s as simple as that. The Chinese yuan is an example. The ratio of debt to GDP is more than 300. Do you plan to travel to Japan to get the Japanese yen. Japan has a ratio of about 260 to their GDP. Will you be moving to the euro? If they’re still below minus 50 Basis Points. The 8.6% inflation rate in Europe. You now have the euro at its lowest point since 2002. So where’s the competition? Because there’s no competition, the dollar will stay up and the Fed raises rates faster than anyone else.
BCN: Are you sure that the Russian ruble really is as powerful as it claims?
GC:If energy prices remain high, it will happen. When energy prices fall, the ruble falls with them.
BCN: What length do you believe the Ukraine-Russian war will last?
GC:So long as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), the United States, and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), support Ukraine. Russia is already victorious. But it’s a big lie to say that. This was the topic that Trends Journal covered before the conflict began. The Trends Journal stated that Ukraine must negotiate with Russia on the various issues they are raising. Among them was the violation of the Minsk agreement that was put together by France and Britain after the separatist regions of the Donbas region — They were going to be a separatist but not a separate country. It’s been reported that Ukrainians killed an estimated 15,000 of them. Another issue [is]They were not invited to NATO. These issues weren’t even brought up.
Remember, the Presstitutes in the US reporting on the Russian invasion probably still can’t point to Ukraine on a map
— Gerald Celente (@geraldcelente) July 8, 2022
We said that they need to discuss these issues because the Russians aren’t going to defeat them. Once upon a time, there was a guy by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte… He left Poland with 422,000 troops to attack Moscow. Famous chart. Bonaparte was able to return with 10,000 troops. It was once upon a time that there was something called World War II. Operation Barbarossa, which claimed the lives of between 25 and 30 million Russians, was lost by Adolf Hitler. Which were the Germans’ first victims in World War II? Russians. Now you have Ukraine, with 40 million people fighting Russia. This is a country that has 140 million soldiers and advanced technology. They are going to defeat them. The United States will help them win. When the U.S. hasn’t won a war since World War II. Despite having killed millions and spent trillions upon trillions.
As Russia has over 20% of the country, they ought to have bargained for peace.
BCN: How do you feel about gold now that it is a safe haven for your money?
GC: I thought gold would’ve gone much higher. Gold is falling because of the strong dollar. Which to me makes absolutely no sense because when economies crash, and this goes back to the panic of ’08, you saw gold spike. Gold is going down now, but it’s getting very close to a breakout point. There are many reasons gold is falling, including the downtrend in global fiat currencies. Gold and other commodities can only be bought in dollars. So now you need more of your currencies that are declining to buy this stuff, and you can’t afford it.
We see gold as the best safe-haven investment, and so do you, Trends Journal. There is no other, it’s been going on since the beginning of recorded history and gold is not going to go away. Also, the markets are rigged. If you don’t believe me. Next, go back to 2019, where the JPMorgan Chase bankster gang was penalized a paltry $900 million for manipulating precious metals markets. This, by the way, is the same Jamie Dimon group that has been convicted of five felonies — JPMorgan Chase. But they don’t go to jail. They can handcuff you and me if we go ten times faster than the speed limit or exceed 0.1% alcohol limit. No, they don’t go to jail. They are fined a small amount.
In the new world order, where the ‘Bigs’ own everything, it’s prosecution to the fullest for we the plantation workers of Slavelandia, and little arrogant boys like Jamie Dimon get a slap on the wrist. You have committed major felonies. Markets are now rigged. They are like a team of plunge protectors. ‘Oh the markets are going down too sharply, let’s pump ’em back up! We’re the New York Fed — We got a desk right there on Wall Street.’ That’s all they are, by the way, daddy’s boys and girls, arrogant members of the club — It’s all one big club and you ain’t in it, said the great George Carlin.
BCN: Your thoughts on bitcoin
GC: It’s a gambler’s game. The Trends Journal provided the bitcoin breakout numbers. We were optimistic about it and could tell where there is upside and downside. It’s a new thing, and as long as the big investors stay in it, it won’t collapse. If the big investors pull out — then it’s going to be a rough road. In 2017, the Trends Journal stated that the biggest threat to cryptocurrency is when governments ban it. China was the first to ban cryptocurrency. Bitcoin prices dropped when China did this, then they came back.
Number two is that they will eventually get rid of all dirty cash. That means the banksters are going to say “we’re not going to go with dollars or coin currencies anymore, we’re going completely digital.” It’s the digital world, it’s the metaverse world. They won’t accept any kind of competition. I believe that this is what cryptos will look like if governments decide to go the other way.
When that happens, I don’t know. Is it possible? I’d bet my life on it. They will be able to track every dollar you spend and where it was spent, as well as what it was spent on, once they are digital. The politicians and little bureaucrats never work. They depend on the tax money. So when they go digital, they get every penny that they want, so they don’t have to work and the ‘Bigs’ can keep telling you what to do.
Right now they don’t have the skills and know-how at this point to go fully digital. Take a look at China and the rise of digital currencies. The people were given millions of dollars and they did extensive testing in Shanghai. For some reason or another, it’s going on now for two years. It didn’t happen. They had just announced their intention to create the digital currency yuan. By the way, that’s the way we’ve become. It’s the Chinese way, you will obey. You can go back to the Covid War. What year was the launch? Chinese Lunar New Years 2020, the Year of the Rat. It was a great idea. It’s because I was on Hong Kong TV in 2019! A city of over 7.5 million and one million took to the streets protesting China’s takeover of them and their rightful rights.
I’d be talking on a break with the reporter and I said “What’s going on over there?” He said “Mr. Celente, we’re not stopping. We’re not going to keep letting the Chinese keep taking our freedom and rights away. We’re going to keep protesting.” Then let’s go back to 2020, the Year of the Rat, China was the first one to lock down.
They locked down who? Hong Kong and they can’t protest anymore. ‘Oh and we’re passing a security act, and now we’re taking it over.’ The Chinese wore masks because of pollution and the dictates, then masks became the Western way… Italy was the first one to follow. You lock down people, force them to get vaccinated and then you put on masks. Then, take their freedoms. One country followed the other.
BCN: What are your thoughts on the Great Reset
GC:They seek total control. Look back at the 2020 markets. They should have crashed, but instead they brought down interest rates to negative or zero. Take a look at the mergers and acquisitions activity for 2021. It is currently the most successful acquisition. Every week we do an article in the Trends Journal about the ‘Bigs’ getting bigger. They’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s the powerful that are in control — the money junkies and they buy out the politicians.
New World Disorder: Top Trend #italy #COVID #Ukraine ….The people of slavelandia have had enough pic.twitter.com/OGjAbfxJeI
— Gerald Celente (@geraldcelente) July 8, 2022
At 26 years of age, I worked as the assistant for the secretary to the New York Senate. At the top I witnessed what an absurd show it was and how many low-life politicians they were. Little pieces of sh**… Arrogant boys and arrogant girls. Their lives were full of work, and they haven’t worked in a year. They get paid off by the ‘Bigs’ to do what they are told. They seek total control. If we don’t have a movement for the people, we’re finished.
We’ve become plantation workers on the plantation of Slavelandia. It’s better than the plantations of the old days because they used to have to house you and feed you. You get enough money to live comfortably and they don’t care much. ‘Just come back to work when we need you and get the hell outta here when we don’t.’ It’s a new plantation system.
BCN: How would you advise people who wish to preserve their wealth in today’s world? Are there opportunities or hope for citizens moving forward?
GC: First off, that last word you said about “hope.” The word “hope,” is the most negative word in the metaphysical dictionary. It is a wish for something that causes it to happen. To prove the total bullsh** of the word hope — let’s go back to the 2008 American election, where they elected a black president, Barack Obama — the Nobel piece of crap prize winner, who had the campaign slogan “Hope and Change, you can believe in.” Hope? He was a lying, arrogant piece of crap and he did the Afghan troop surge. “I want that guy Gaddafi out of there! Assad needs to be expelled! We don’t care if we kill 630,000 Syrians, I want him outta there! I don’t care about Gaddafi, I don’t care about Libya being the richest country in Africa. A country where people have more rights and receive greater benefits. I want him outta there — I want that oil!”
‘Hope?’ People have to make it happen themselves. If people don’t get in the best shape they can physically, mentally, and spiritually — We are at the end of the world. World War III has begun — It’s not a proxy war, NATO and America are at war with Russia. It won’t become official until maybe a nuclear weapon goes off or some city is destroyed. If the people don’t unite for peace and freedom we are finished. It’s over.
World War I and II are not ancient history, and at the time the people didn’t stand up to fight and stop it, they simply swallowed the bullsh**. These wars just started instantly as they say in government schools or public schools… they are sh** schools. Boys and girls learn how World War I began and they explain why Archduke Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo. Who the f*** is this Archduke and what the f*** is Sarajevo? Do you mean it wasn’t going on before that? “Oh no, World War II began when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,” they say. Oh you mean it wasn’t because the United States shut off all the oil and all the other sh** that was going on. “Oh no, no, no… it only happened on that specific day.” That’s the crap they will feed us when World War III begins… It’s begun.
This will be the war when they asked Albert Einstein about the kind of weapons that will be used during the third world war… A cat that knew a thing or two about the atom bomb. He said, “I don’t know but they will be using sticks and stones to fight the fourth.” So what should people do? I’m fighting. I’m having a big peace rally on July 23 in Kingston New York on the four corners of freedom. Back in 2014, I started occupypeace.com. I stand for peace. I’m doing everything I can. On the financial end, I don’t give financial advice, but I’m a trends forecaster. For me, gold is the number one. Number two is silver and number three is bitcoin. Assets to think about. The bottom line is guns, gold and a getaway plan, GC’s three Gs.
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