NPD was founded to bring you news of positive trends helping to create a better world and while the vast majority of stories here are positive and we believe a new civilization is in the process of being born, we have an obligation to bring to our readers attention the shadow side of old paradigm economics that could threaten our economic well being and provide the breakdown and simultaneous breakthrough that we wish might occur without the pain of a collapse.

We will of course welcome a culture built on love and service rather than fear and greed. And, it appears we will see some extraordinary happenings over the next few months and years. How it will play out remains to be seen but it’s probably an understatement to say we live in interesting times. One friend describes it as a time when anything is possible and nothing is certain and another as a time when things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster. Perhaps the wisest course is to hope for and co-create a better future while planning current personal and business strategies based on the best available intelligence.

Gerald Celente, trend expert, visionary, keynote speaker, is trusted worldwide as the foremost authority on forecasting, analyzing and tracking trends. Celente is author of Trends 2000, Trend Tracking (Warner Books) and publisher of the Trends Journal®.

The Trends Journal® distills the voluminous ongoing research of The Trends Research Institute® into concise, readily accessible form. By tracking 300 separately defined domestic and international trend categories including: business, economics, politics, social developments, education, health, science, technology, philosophy, the arts, entertainment, and fashion - four times a year, The Trends Journal® establishes the connections that others fail to see or misinterpret. Its Globalnomic® method cuts through the confusion of information overload and zeroes in on the trends that will shape the future.

We are told by many government and private economic “experts” that everything will be fine, yet we could be on the brink of the most serious threat to our financial well being in our lifetime.

I am hoping that Gerald Celente is completely wrong in his analysis below. However, if he is right, the future does not look at all good and unfortunately, I suspect he may be more right than wrong…I’m guessing if you want to protect your assets, that gold may be your best insurance. Again, if Celente is correct or even half correct, low cost self-sustaining living could become an imperative. Because of his predictive record of accuracy, and the respect paid by mainstream media to his analysis, his opinion merits serious attention and consideration and his newsletter may be an important resource in helping us understand where we may be heading and what we may be able to do about it. Gerald is not a fanatic, but a well respected analyst who will be interviewed tomorrow on my friend Terrence McNally’s KPFK show at 12 Pacific, 3pm Eastern. You can tune in on the web. I have just purchased a one-year subscription to his online newsletter ($99) and will definitely be tuning in to hear his interview with Terrence tomorrow. If you do as well, I invite you to share your thoughts here.

FREE FORUM with TERRY McNALLY
Tuesday August 19th noon PT/3pm ET

GERALD CELENTE
Author, TRENDS 2000
Trends imagined – Looking Back from 2012

90.7fm in LA, 98.7fm in Santa Barbara
streaming globally on the web at www.kpfk.org
podcast any time at terrymcnally.net.

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GERALD CELENTE accurately forecast the Iraqi War quagmire, the last two recessions, the Dot-Com meltdown, and the 1987 world stock market crash. As far back as 1993 he predicted that a new Crusades would be raging at the dawn of the new millennium.

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GERALD CELENTE’s latest trends alert just released looks back from the year 2012.

“2012. The future has arrived. Empire America is collapsing. The Panic of ’08 became the Crash of ’09. The global financial system has melted down. Most paper money isn’t worth a dime. The worst of environmental fears have been realized. What some call the “War on Terror,” others call WWIII. The onset of The Blackest of Plagues has the world’s populace terrified.

The streets are teeming with the homeless, helpless and jobless. Major cities look like Calcutta. Neither Big Brother’s surveillance, corporate security squads, or angry vigilantes can stop the pandemic crime wave. Even gated communities provide no sure sanctuary; the rich have become the targets of choice for kidnappers, gangs and organized criminals.

Food is plentiful if you can afford it, but dangerous to eat unless you grow your own or get it from reliable sources. After years of drought and mismanagement, water shortages have reached crisis levels in much of the world.

But even as this is written in 2012, the official word is still, “Take a deep breath, the fundamentals are sound.” They’re not. Yet those who didn’t see it coming, still keep telling us what to do. Seeing through the media and government spin machines and smoke screens, many sensed the seriousness of the situation, and in their gut expected the worst. But either through instinctive fear, stubborn denial, or conditioned inertia, few prepared for what was to come. They now live between the helpless states of “what-might-have-been” and “I-wish-I-did.”