Trends This Week

Gerald Celente takes a deep dive into the news of recent days, especially the self-destructing Donald Trump and ever present war drums pounding in the background of the Presidential Reality Show. He updates listeners on critical economic trends, as well. Despite high expectations that the Bank of Japan would stimulate its nation's foundering economy by driving interest rates further into negative territory, and that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would fire his third Abenomic stimulus arrow, both missed the target. On the news that the BOJ held rates and the stimulus arrow was far smaller than markets anticipated, the NIKKEI trended closer to bear territory and Asian markets moved lower. Indeed, central banks are caught in a rate trap.

"The laws are only there for we the little people to obey..." Trends analyst Gerald Celente breaks down the hollow words and promises behind Bernie Sanders' endorsement of Hillary Clinton, as well as President Barack Obama's recent speech about the Dallas police shootings and the shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. Celente then ties the failed leadership of the political elite here and across the globe to the rise of the anti-globalization movements taking hold worldwide and  the emerging - and powerful - trend of self-sustainability. And, he offers some deep insights into the surge in global markets this week.

Global forecaster Gerald Celente rips

into the decision not to prosecute Democratic presidential candidate

Hillary Clinton for her email scandal, demonstrating once again two

scales of justice: One for the elites, one for the rest of us.

Elsewhere, Celente analyzes market indicators in the aftermath of

Brexit. Global

equity markets are in turmoil. However, the business media’s view of

market mayhem is a snapshot in time dating to the June 23 “Brexit” when

the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union. Indeed,

while Brexit triggered the current turmoil, Celente's trends-eye view

identifies the current market volatility in a Globalnomic® context far bigger than Brexit.

Although stocks bounced back on

"Turnaround Tuesday" on the belief that contagion has been contained

following the rout that wiped out $3.6 trillion from equity markets

following Great Britain's referendum last Thursday to "Brexit" the

European Union... we disagree. It's bigger than Brexit. Despite

many of the world's largest hedge funds betting billions on a "Remain"

victory and British bookies putting the chances of "Leave" at barely 10

percent, in our June 15 Trend Alert, we wrote, "Should the 'Leave' vote

win, we forecast the US dollar and gold prices will spike while equity

markets, particularly those currently under downward pressure, will sink

deeply lower." Since then, gold hit two-year highs, the British pound

fell to 31-year lows and currencies around the world hit new lows

against the US dollar - or tested old ones - as investors sought

safe-haven assets such as the dollar and Japanese yen.

The

criticism in the "investor" world has long been that gold yields no

interest. However, as interest rates around the world keep trending

lower and holding cash yields nothing, in a climate of ongoing market

volatility, for many, holding gold is considered the ultimate safe-haven

commodity.

The surveillance state reaches new

heights. In the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando, Republican

senators are seeking to expand the FBI's surveillance capabilities.

Where are the liberals? Screaming about gun control while remaining

silent on yet another move to restrict your rights.   Gerald Celente breaks it all down in this edition of Trends This Week.

While Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and fellow Fed members

bombarded the business media with the refrain that America’s economy was

strong, and to expect an interest-rate rise “in the coming months,”

this week, global forecaster Gerald Celente reminds his listeners what

the facts - what the hard, indisputable data - say about the true state

of the economy. So while Yellen states “the economy has registered

considerable progress over the past several years toward the Federal

Reserve’s goals of maximum employment,” hard data dispute her

jobs-progress claim. In fact, since 2009, 95 percent of all income gains

have gone to the richest 1 percent while median household income

remains below 1999 levels. There is no recovery.

From Burberry to Hugo Boss, from Cartier to Tiffany, foot traffic is

down, profits are slumping, stores are closing and markets are

shrinking. Across the luxury spectrum, beyond jewelry, watches and

valuable gifts that are among the worst performers… even sales of luxury

apartments are falling some 20 percent in prime real-estate markets

around the world.

At the top of the retail top, gold and diamond

jewelry sales, two key trend indicators that signal both a weakening

global economy and ensuing economic turmoil, continue to worsen. While

the luxury-retail sector blames soft sales primarily on a decline in

tourism, unstated in corporate fiscal reports is that the reason tourism

is down is a direct consequence of the worsening global recession we

forecast as a Top Trend of 2016.

As Memorial Day approaches, global forecaster Gerald Celente reflects on

the horrors of war and the cowards who lead us to war with lies and

deceptions. In classic Celente fashion, he breaks down President Obama's

recent "sovereignty" speech to show the embedded, instinctive lies and

overt hypocrisies that explain away U.S. aggression against "sovereign"

nations and are never challenged by the Presstitute media. Elsewhere in

the show, Celente invites listeners to join him, Max Keiser and Stacy

Herbert of RT's Keiser Report, and other speakers for the Trends

Research Institute's summer retreat, the "Ontrendpreneur."  The retreat

is filling up fast and drawing participants from across the globe and

from throughout the United States.

The Spring edition of the Trends Journal (available at Trendsresearch.com)

was just released, featuring an in-depth analysis of how central banks

have created a ticking time bomb. In this Trends This Week program,

Trends Journal publisher Gerald Celente breaks down the indicators that

suggest that time bomb is about to go off. From slowing market trade

activity to rising gold prices, from the real story behind rising oil

prices to what a threat of even moderate interest rate hikes means,

Celente slices through the media hype and propaganda to tell the

fact-based story of a global economy heading off a cliff.

Gerald Celente dissects President Obama's recent commencement address at

Howard University. Beyoncé rules the world? That and other naive,

ill-informed, out-of-touch, blatantly insulting Obama comments are

broken down in classic Celente style. Elsewhere, the global forecaster

puts recent economic trends into perspective, with a focus on why he

thinks gold will continue to rise in value, and talks about the Trends

Research Institute's upcoming summer retreat in historic Colonial

Kingston, N.Y. It's filling up fast and drawing people from all over the

world.