The fake “recovery” was nice while it lasted, says famous apocalyptic forecaster Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute. But now the fun’s over, and we’re headed for what Celente describes as the “Greatest Depression.”
Specifically, the always startling Celente says the country is headed for rising unemployment, poverty, and violent class warfare as the government efforts to keep the economy going begin to fail.
The crux of the problem, Celente argues, is that the middle class has been wiped out. America used to be a land of opportunity for all, where hard-working people could build their own small businesses in their own communities and live prosperous and fulfilling lives. But now a collusion of state and corporate interests that Celente describes as “fascism” have conspired to help only the biggest companies and the richest Americans. This has put a shocking amount of the country’s wealth in the hands of a privileged few and left the rest of the country to subsist on chicken-feed wages and low job satisfaction as Wal-Mart “associates” — or worse.
The answer, Celente says, is to bring back the laws that prevented huge companies from getting so big and powerful, and put some opportunity back in the hands of ordinary people. But doing that is going to take a while. And in the meantime, we’re headed for trouble.
(Celente’s dead right about U.S. wealth inequality, by the way. It’s shocking. And it’s getting worse. For a quick overview, see “15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America)
Posted Aug 20, 2010 08:47am EDT
by Henry Blodget
Source: Yahoo Finance
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– New York Post
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– CNN Headline News
There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.
– CNBC
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– The Wall Street Journal
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– The Economist