Trends This Week

The Federal Reserve operates the largest printing press on the

planet. It seeks to hire the most qualified people to address current

economic conditions and design strategies to maximize future market

potential. However, when crisis strikes and with global equity markets

in turmoil, those hired admit they are out of touch with the present and

blindsided by the future. As minutes from their own meetings show, when

the Panic of '08 hit, which the Trends Research Institute forecast and

named, the Fed was blindsided. Were they stupid then, or just playing

stupid? Today, from China’s economy growing at its slowest pace in a

quarter century, Japan sinking back into recession, Europe’s stagnant

Gross Domestic Product, Asian economies jolted by plummeting exports,

emerging-market economies and currencies crashing, commodity indexes

gyrating between 1991-to-1999 lows, etc., the “outlook” is clear: Global

Recession. What's the Fed's position?  Fed Vice Chairman Stanley

Fischer recently said Fed officials “simply do not know" what course of

action to anticipate since “it is still early to judge the ramifications

of the increased market volatility of the first seven weeks of 2016."

Are they stupid, or playing stupid by not seeing the Panic of 2016

Trend

forecaster Gerald Celente lays it on the table, dissecting why the

bounce back in markets the last few days is bunk. After equity markets

worldwide suffered one of the worst starts of a new year in history,

stocks suddenly rebounded. For example, the Nikkei closed out

last week at its lowest level since October 2014. But what economic

fundamentals spiked prices higher this week? Was it the dismal news that

Japan’s economy contracted 1.4 percent in the last quarter? No. What boosted  stocks prices was the twisted

rationale that despite the Bank of Japan firing two rounds of blanks

from its “monetary bazooka,” the lousy Gross Domestic Product number was

cause to launch yet another round of stimulus. Before

Chinese markets opened Monday after being closed for a week, the

Shanghai Index had fallen 47 percent since its peak in June. Was it on

the rotten news that China’s exports fell 11.2 percent in January and

imports plunged 18.8 percent that markets rallied? No. As with Japan,

the dismal data was taken as a positive sign that the People’s Bank of

China would take bold measures to boost sluggish growth.  “Confidence,”

trust the effectiveness of the rigged market game,  not economic

fundamentals, was the rationale for stocks suddenly moving

higher. Tuesday’s New York Times headline summed it up: “Global

Shares Buoyed by Investor Faith.” Yes, faith in more failed

central-bank stimulus and stock and bond buyback sideshows… not faith in

true price discovery and robust Gross Domestic product growth.

Don't the buy the media line that the volatility in global markets is all about oil. It's not. Not even close. The fast-moving meltdown in those markets resulting in global recession is the eventual price world economies will pay for chronically injecting cheap money into the market for the last decade, artificially pumping up the economy and masking the spreading cancer below the surface. Now, six weeks into the new year, the mad swings in the markets will more and more center on the banks. Watch the banking crisis as it unfolds. Global stock indexes have plunged into bear territory, currencies are crashing – and as commodity prices tumble, resource-rich nations going broke are begging the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to bail them out. Neither “The Panic” nor the Global Recession, one of our Top Trends for 2016, will spare any country, large or small. We are looking at a Global Recession turning into a Global Depression. And when all measures fail to revive the economy - "they take you to war."

World renowned forecaster Gerald Celente revisits President Obama's State of the Union address last month when the president stated: “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Breaking down the fact-based reasons why global recession, one of the Trends Research Institute's Top Trends of 2016, is inevitable and Obama is the one "peddling fiction," Celente serves up the facts - growing in number and relevance - to paint a true picture of economies worldwide and what those indicators mean to you. He further explains how global recession will feed social unrest, which is a key indicator of war on the horizon - the "Last World War,"  another Top Trend for 2016.

Want to know the truth behind those wild swings in global markets? Listen to this program with global master forecaster Gerald Celente. The facts prove it. With just three trading days left in January, in the history of the Dow Jones, there has never been a new year that has rung in on such a down note. And the wild market ride has spread far beyond Wall Street. Just one week ago, the global equity rout sent the MSCI All-Country World Index into bear territory. From China to Japan, from the UK to France, stocks were down more than 20 percent from 2015 highs. Among the higher-risk emerging markets, stocks dove to their lowest levels since May 2009. Overall, some $15 trillion in global equity values has been lost since the year began. Beyond diving equities, commodity prices are down to 1991 levels, according to the Bloomberg Commodity Index. Thus, among many resource-rich nations whose exports have sharply fallen along with the prices of the commodities they sell, their currencies’ value also has dramatically declined. There's a rough ride ahead. Prepare. Prevail. Prosper.

Gerald Celente breaks down how the talking airheads on business broadcast media keep missing the larger picture of crumbling worldwide economies and the undeniable underlying factors that ultimately will determine economic fate and your bottom line. While future quantitative easing measures or other central bank interventions may temporarily pause the sharp declines in markets worldwide, Global recession and even depression in some countries are unavoidable. Celente tells you what you need to know now.

Classic tell-it-like-it-is Gerald Celente. The master global forecaster breaks down how the mainstream media soft-peddled coverage of Wall Street's worst opening of a new year in its history. Despite the Dow industrials plummeting more than 1,000 points to ring in the worst first week of the new year ever, and despite US stocks losing $1.36 trillion in value, and despite crude oil’s price tumbling 11 percent in one week, the business-media spin was that the strong jobs report proved the fundamentals of the economy were sound. Indeed, The New York Times, the self-anointed “Paper of Record,” featured the jobs report on page 1 while burying the Dow’s history-making dive on the lower-bottom left of the next-to-last page of the business section with the less-than-startling headline, “Markets slide to worst week in 4 years.” Even The Wall Street Journal’s top-of-the-page headline, “Bad week for stocks dims outlook,” played down the severity of the history-making market-mauling by overshadowing it with a dramatic front-page photo of a gunman shooting a policeman driving a squad car in Philadelphia. All essential indicators signal a global recession is not only inevitable, it's imminent, just as the Trends Research Institute forecast last year. But the mainstream business media is passively waiting for the storm to blow over.

The signs of global economic meltdown, which Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute have forecast for 2016, are multiplying, strengthening and deepening in the early days of the new year. Celente reviews the economic indicators that are weakening and converging to set the stage for Global Recession in 2016. One indicator after another, across the world's major economies, are showing fundamental and deepening weakness. Further, geo-political tensions in the Middle-East, Asia and elsewhere are fueling instability. What can we expect? What can we do to prepare?

Gerald Celente provides some insights to what major trends his Trends Research Institute are forecasting for the year ahead. Celente and his analysts are predicting a year of geo-political and economic turbulence the likes of which the world has not seen in generations. But the year will also present opportunities - Golden Opportunities, as Celente has labeled the trend - for new profit potential, meaningful work and service and social movements to take shape to generate political and cultural reforms.

Global forecaster Gerald Celente is mad as hell. The last segment of the Presidential Reality Show in 2016, the CNN debate with GOP hopefuls on December 15, was a cesspool of senseless war mongering. Not a peep for peace. Not a hint of talk about what created this cycle of endless war; only how to increase the death count and improve the precision in which the United States and its coalition of the willing fan the flames of the War on Terror. No one is looking back at the steps taken by the gutless, mindless leaders who launched this war in the first place. Instead, cloaked in crowd-rousing bravado, the Presidential Reality Show contestants promise to take the same path. Elsewhere in this show, Celente provides more details about his exciting "Prepare for 2016" retreat in Naples, Florida with Gary Null, and offers insights into the Fed's pending interest rate hike.