Gerald Celente: China Will Lead the AI Race as the Dollar Declines & WWIII Begins
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AI is the future. Love it, hate it, want it, don't want it, it good, bad, ugly, but who's going to lead it? China. We're getting it because of narco terrorists. Load of crap. What's it now? It's the oil. So, the business of America's war, the business of China's business. We are in the beginning of the end of the dollar being the world currency. Bricks have what? 40% of the world's GDP. A lot of the nations are very disgusted with America's geopolitical and socioeconomic hegemony. They've had Why do you think there's going to be a World War II? >> It's already begun. It's already happening. It it it's just going to is going to make it official. >> Don't forget to sign up for a free portfolio review with one of our endorsed investment partners at wealth.comfree. >> [music] >> Gerald, thank you very much for joining us today. How are things in the great state of New York? >> You know, it's a I'll tell you something. Good question. One of our top trends for 2026 is Gen Z Revolution. We just had one in New York City. Again, I'm a guy, Monopoly, born in the Bronx. All right. I know New York. And um they elected this guy in November, Mandani. Nobody ever heard of him. 34 years old. This is the biggest city in America. They elect a guy that nobody ever heard of again. And with trend forecasting, it's not what you like, what you want, what you wish, it's what is. Why did they elect him? Gen Z. They're broken busted. They're the ones that made it happen. And what does he call himself? a socialist, a democratic socialist. And by the way, go back to Trump when he tried to overthrow the Maduro government back when he was president in 2019, 2020. He called Maduro back then a socialist dictator. Okay. So, a socialist just won in New York City. Why? Because Gen Z is broke and busted. They got no doubt. These are 14 to 29 year olds. They got no doubt what's going on in Nepal. Oh, they overthrew the government a couple of months ago, didn't they? Yeah. Who did it? Gen Z. What happened in Kenya? Gen Z taking the streets. How about Tanzania? Gen Z are out there. Morocco, Madagascar. Hey, what happened over there in Bulgaria a couple of weeks ago? Gen Z overthrew the government. They're broke and busted. Again, only look at the facts. In America, the top 10% own 93% of the equity markets. So the 90% only own 7%. Not too long ago, the average age of first-time home buyers in America, 28 years old, Gen Z, now 40 years old. 50% of all the spending in America from the top 10%. So there's going to be a Gen Z revolution. So you ask me about New York. New York's a crap hole now. Again, I'm not, you know, I I mean, I was there when New York was up and down. I know the I know the place, man. Again, even back, you know, during this the sexual revolution in the se early 70s and 80s, you know, people were getting high and stuff, but you didn't see people shooting out in the street. You didn't see homeless all over the place. You didn't see garbage all over the streets. It's a whole different place. And again, you look at the facts. It's not only New York. When the COVID war happened and looking at other trends, there's going to be a banking bust. It's going to help crash the markets along with a.com bust. Take a trip to to Louisville, Kentucky. Oh, that's where they have the Kentucky Derby. What's the office vacancy rate? About 40%. Chicago. Yeah. 28% vacant. Vacant. Portland, Oregon. Denver, Colorado, Seattle, Washington, vacant. 28% rate. That's according to Moody's. 28% of the offices are vacant. Ain't nobody there. Okay. COVID war started 6 years ago. Just about now on Chinese Luna New Year, the year of the rat, 2020. The leases now. And the people are renting all the space. They're up now. Five, 10 year leases they got. They're not renewing them. There's going to be defaults on these buildings that the banks are not going to have the money to pay it. Go back to 2023. Ain't ancient history. What happened? Three banks in America failed. Silicon, Conman, Valley Bank, uh, First Republic Signature. Three banks. Boop. Down goes the markets. Up goes gold. All right. You're going to see 30 banks fail. Nobody's talking about this. You're not allowed to talk about it. No one will talk about it. Again, only go by the data and the data is there. Yep. The US cities with central business district office vacancy rates are low and they're right down here one after another. Um Dallas, they saying Dallas, this is Moody's 34.4%. St. Louis 33%. San Antonio, Texas 31.4%. Las Vegas 30.7%. Dayton, Ohio, 37.5%. All right, these are the facts. And again, it's turned to crap. All All the vibe is gone, man. All the vibe is gone. Where I'm up here in Hudson Valley, gorgeous. Before COVID, death going out 2 3:00 in the morning, restaurants used to stop serving 10:00 at night. Now they stop serving at 9:00 at night. Streets are empty. Empty 9:00 at night. Whole vibe change, man. So, there's going to be a banking bust that's going to bring down the markets. And as you know in the trends journal, 2024, we said it would be a golden year for gold. It went up almost 30% in 2024. And again, we've been bullish on gold and silver throughout the year. And look at the prices. And the reason the prices are going up is because the global economy is going down. Hey, you want to hear some crap? Big news. Germany, the third largest economy in the world. Third largest. They're in recession for two years. All right. Not this year. 2025. You know what the crap they spewed out yesterday? The economy grew by 0.2%. What are you talking about? Shove that 0.2 up your you know what? Who you talking to? Third largest economy, largest economy in Europe. One after another, they're all going down. That's why you're seeing gold prices go up because of geopolitical and socioeconomic turmoil that's going on. Again, I've been at this for 46 years. One of my books, Trends 2000, international bestseller. Trend Tracking, far better than Mega Trends. Time magazine. Oh, Trends Journal. Yeah. Weekly magazine. This is when it was a quarterly. Autumn 1999.com. This we forecasted.com bust. We said it would bust by the second quarter. 2000. It did. Get ready for combust 2.0. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age, and die. You don't invest all your dough in the baby that was the infant that was born in 2022. AI. All right. AI is the future. Love it, hate it, want it, don't want it, it good, bad, ugly, but who's going to lead it? China. Let's go back a year ago, just about now, week later. Deepseek. Hey, what's a Deep Seek? Oh, a Chinese AI company that brought down Nvidia stock 600 billion dollars in one day. We don't need these big chips. It didn't cost us a hundred million to do our AI. It cost us six million. You don't invest all your dough in the infant that was born. And then you go back to the facts we put in the trends journal. Each week, China is investing very heavily in AI. Country 1.4 billion people. America 343 million. Okay. Back in um 1992 when this arrogant little boy and again I'm a political atheist. Why I want to make this a thousand% clear to me people call it a government and politicians. They they're they're gangsters as I see it. and I was the assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate. I got a picture of me when I did a a brunch for Ronald Reagan with 16 of our board of directors when I used to be on the other side. Been with Major, the clown boy from the UK when I used to do talks. Uh again, I've been there. So, I'm I'm a political atheist. To me, it's a crime syndicate. This is a t-shirt I did when Bill Clinton ran for office in 1992. Beware a slick Willie. This is the slime ball that sold this country out with NAFTA. Get them jobs out of here. Bring them to Bring them to Mexico. You get cheap labor and I get paid off for this. All right. I'M A LITTLE CLOWN WITH NO MONEY, BUT NOW I'M WORTH $130 MILLION. ALL RIGHT. I GET PAID $400,000 AN HOUR TO AT THE GOLDMAN SACHS. ALL RIGHT. That's the guy that sent our jobs. Also, this goes back to AI. You make connections between different fields. 25 years ago, China comes into the World Trade Organization. Back then, 10% of Chinese 18 year olds went to college. Today, nearly 70%. That's right. The West gave China everything they never had. Talking about Germany. Oh, look at the production numbers that just came out. They're way down. Germany, the top of the top. What happened? The western nations went over there, the manufacturers, to use cheap labor when they brought into the World Trade Organization. China's investing very heavily in AI. They don't need the West anymore. Hey, who's the biggest seller of uh electric vehicles? Oh, what's a BYD? They don't need them. They're they're Look, look at China's Do you see their export numbers that came out the other day? broke a record over a trillion bucks, 1.2 trillion in exports. They're going to lead the world. The 20th century was the American century, but the 21st century is going to be the Chinese century because the business of China's business and the business of America is war. Oh, what happened in Venezuela? How many times did Trump bomb Somalia? Oh, I forgot he bow bombing Yemen over there, too. Hey, we're going to get that Greenland. Hey, it's the Gulf of America. Hey, Cuba. Hey, you better watch out. Oh, uh, Nigeria bombs away. Oh, and the clown that won the Nobel Peace Prize, the woman from Venezuela, gave it to Trump yesterday. How about a piece of crap prize? Oh, you don't believe me? How about when Obama got it? Light his way into again. I launched a movement called Occupy Peace over a decade ago and I had peace rallies on for peace. This is the clown boy, a little nothing that became very rich as well. Multi-millionaire now lied his way into office during the Iraq war. I'm going to bring peace. And the Afghan war is going on. Soon as he gets in, the Afghan troop surge. This is the guy that overthrew Gaddafi, Libya. It was the richest country in Africa. Great tourist place. People had more rights and benefits than anybody else. Gaddafi has to go. Oh, he overthrew uh he started the revolution in Syria, too, didn't he? Oh, but he won the Nobel Peace Prize again. You think the United States would have invaded Iraq, Libya, and Syria if their major export was broccoli? Let's go back to Venezuela. Oh, we're getting it because of narco terrorists. Load of crap. What's it now? It's the oil. All right. So, business of America's war, the business of China's business. Going back, young people in China are very advanced. It's a very advanced nation. Look at look at their rail system. What you go about 250 miles an hour? All right. Europe up in Toronto. I go used to go to Montreal a lot. I'm four and a half hours drive. 4 and a half hours from Montreal from where I am in Kingston, New York. You know how long it takes me to get if I take Amrap across the river in Rincliffe? 10 hours. 10 hours on Amcrap. Hey, take the subway in New York. Night in Kolkata. Go to China. Every three minutes trains coming in. [snorts] All right, that's where it's going. Do com bust, office building bust, gold prices spiking, Gen Z revolution are just some of the 12 top trends for 2026. If you're looking for a simple, secure way to invest and own physical gold and silver, visit our sister company, Hardass Assets Alliance at hardassetsalliance.com. That's hardassallalliance.com. >> So, nothing but positive news from you. [laughter] >> Again, tell me what's going on here. Here, wait a minute. Let me let me uh find this over here. Here, can you see this? Could you see this? Could you read it? All right. What do they say over here? Uh, let me get my glasses. Look cool. Stay warm. Look at this sloppy crap. What are you talking about? Look at the way people dress. Look at the crap they eat. Look how the world's going down in front of your eyes. One of my other books is called What Zidzy Gave Honey Boy. I don't know where it is over here. Where is it? Here it is. There used to be a Zizzy is the Neapolitan dialect for auntie. Zia's aunt. Zizzy's auntie. And she used to call me Honey Boy. And it's about growing up in the Bronx and what New York used to be in my parents' generation whenever people all around the world wanted to come here. Here's a there's a picture of my uh parents' wedding. And may they all rest in peace. Aunts, uncles. I don't know if you can see this. Could you see that? Can you see how nice they look? Look Look what they look like. The Great Depression, 1934. All right. My father worked in a fish store. They were laborers. The women worked in factories. Look at the style they used to have. Hey, once upon a time, America's greatest export was music. Jazz, R&B, Mottown, rock and roll. Now, all synthesized crap. Look at the way they look. And look at the way the billionaires look. Again, they say in the King James Bible that the meek shall inherit the earth. They misspelled it. The geeks have inherited the earth. Suckerberg, Peach Eye, Cook. Look at Look at them. Look at these people. All the vibe is gone, man. All the vibe is gone. It breaks my heart. Breaks my heart. >> So, Gerald, you mentioned uh three of your top trends that I really want to hone in on. You said number one was the Gen Z revolution. You spoke quite a bit about that. The second one that I want to do a deeper dive on is the AI and AI bubble. And I have to admit, I really haven't played anything associated with AI outside of owning the spiders or the cues. And when chat GPT came into existence in November of 2022, I can't believe it was only three years ago, but it was valued at $20 billion. Now it's over $500 billion based on the last raise. The other poster child for anything to do with AI is Nvidia. Uh once again when chat came into existence in November of 22 Nvidia was valued at 400 billion now it's over four trillion but what's your maybe you can do a deeper dive on the AI bubble and and what's going to be the catalyst to take it down because I think we both agree it's way overvalued okay but this can go on for quite some time as we've already seen >> again China's going to take it over it's way overvalued you realize that 50% of America's gross domestic product in 2025 was it because of spending in AI? So, the Trends Journal went out, the top trends went out on um on July, excuse me, January 6th, went to Google and typed in top trends for 2026. You ready? AI top trends for 2026 point toward the shift from 2025's quote quiet luxury end quote to quote loud luxury featuring bold colors, exaggerated embellishments, tassels and bows. Who you talking to? That's the top trends if you go to AI. So don't don't subscribe to the trends journal for $259 a week. Go to AI. Swallow the crap that they're putting out there. It's the future. It's the beginning of the worst of the dumbing down of society. Another one of our trends, by the way, is techitis. Young people are totally addicted to this stuff. It's the future. It's the future. and and love it, hate it, it's where it's going to go. And again, China's going to take it over. Just like they here, you know what? How much of America's gross domestic product is from manufacturing? About 10%. All right. And what does China again? They're just their exports hit an all-time high of over a trillion bucks. So AI is going to be it, but China's going to lead the world in it. And they're overinvested in these companies. You start looking at other than Nvidia and a few others, look at the losses. They're not they're deep in debt. They're deep in debt. They're not going to have the money to pay this thing off. There's going to be huge failures. There's going to be a.com bust that's going to crash the equity markets along with the office building bust that's going to bring down the banks as the banks go bust. you one thing I wanted to ask you about is or get your opinion on uh you were talking about the Gen Z revolution and then you also talked about the bust in AI but also how kids are totally addicted to their phones and and I see this all the time but one of the things that really stands out to me is when you talk about the older gen Z's or younger millennials who are able to invest it's like this uh they're just swinging from the fences when it comes to investing. Okay, like they're big into these meme stocks. They're big into cryptocurrencies. They're big into sports betting, like sports betting. It's become like a game. And then the other thing that's really caught on now is are these predictive markets. And this is interesting because the predictive markets are regulated at the federal level, not at the state level. So there's a lot more freedom. And once again, it's almost like a game. You can bet on anything. Now, >> what are your view? >> Right. No, you're 100% right. and and it's and and and the big companies are doing more and more in this predictive stuff. They're they're vest and the young people are totally into it. It's the it's the future. And again, when you're young, you don't know what you you know, you're just starting to grow up, you know. Um I I started growing up when I was about 32 years old. That's when I became a political atheist and started investing in gold and oil when the Iranian conflict broke out. And of course, they taught us to hate Iran just like they teach us right now. And people had no idea back in 1978 when the revolution began that the United States, the CIA and the MI6 the of the UK overthrew the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosadeg in Iran in 1953. You know why? He had the nerve to say that oil in Iran, it belongs doesn't belong to Anglo Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobile. It belongs to the Iranian people. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. They overthrew the government, brought in the Savv, the secret police that made the SS in World War II look like a great group. So, when the revolution happened, I knew this thing was real. But if they teach you to hate them, just like they teach us to hate Russia. When I was a kid, they had us hiding under a desk because an atom bomb may go off. We used to go have air rage rules. So people have no idea. They buy the propaganda. And then this is important, too. Again, we only write the facts. The mainstream media did not report a spiking gold and oil prices in 2025 until around October. Again, we write a weekly magazine. We put the facts in there. This is what the Wall Street Journal reported on gold. Did nothing. Book. Last paragraph. Financial Times. Book. Hardly a word. Hardly a word. Then when they started reporting it, they said prices are going up like they went in 1979,7878. But then they crashed in the 80s, early 80s. No comparison. Again, I started buying gold $163 an ounce back then. Back then, America was number one. Nobody was close to us. China had about a billion people back then. You know what the gross domestic product was in 1978? Under $150 billion. They got a billion people. $150 billion GDP. Now over 20 trillion back then. Why did gold prices go down? Reagan came in. Paul Vulkar pushed up interest rates to like uh 18 to 20%. To stop the inflation, they're not going to raise interest rates now. They're going to lower them. You see what Trump is doing with that guy Powell, the Fed head, and Trump want comes out and says, "I want a weaker dollar so we could export more products." The deeper the dollar goes, the higher gold prices go. This isn't rocket science. Gold is dollar-based. So the lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls, the higher gold prices go up because it's cheaper to buy in other countries as currencies are going up. And we are in the beginning of the end of the dollar being the world currency. The bricks have what 40% of the world's GDP. A lot of the nations are very disgusted with America's geopolitical and socioeconomic hegemony. They've had it. So you're going to see the dollar go. We became the country our founding fathers fought against. Great Britain with the sun never sets on the British Empire. Oh yeah. All the wars you got, what happened after World War I? You spend all this money on wars. Boom. Down goes the pound and the dollar comes up. As I said, the business of America's war. Oh, Trump again, not only by the facts, go back to February 2025. Hey, hey, I'm going to cut the defense budget in half. All right. All right. Oh, what did he say uh about a week ago? Hey, hey, I'm going to add another half a trillion dollars to build up the defense. All right. Oh, with $ 38 trillion in debt. Oh, and how about over there in in in Germany? Mertz, the Black Rockck guy. This is Chancellor. A trillion dollars. A trillion. Again, two years of recession, basically three. Don't tell me you went up 0.2%. And they're borrowing a trillion dollars. We got to build up our defense to stop those Russians. Oh, yeah. We only killed 27 million of them in World War II in Operation Barbar Roa. and got to build up our infrastructure so I can hold the tanks. All of Europe, all of Europe is building up their defense. All the facts building up their defense. No, it doesn't build up your economy. The BS that they're throwing out there, economies are built up when the products that are manufactured are consumed, bought and consumed by the public. This only enriches the military-industrial complex. And look at the stocks going up in the military-industrial complex as all these countries are spending more and more money on defense. So you ask me why I'm concerned because another one of our top trends is World War II. Ukraine war is going to keep going on. There's going to more violence in the Middle East. United States attacking. Oh, you're not allowed to use the word, by the way. Go to BBC. An article came out in Guardian. You can't use the word that the United States kidnapped Maduro and his wife. They captured him. All right. Can't use the word kidnapped. There's going to be blowback. Payback's a as they say. And it's going to happen. That's my greatest concern. >> Why do you think there's going to be a World War III? >> It's already begun. It's already happening. It it it's just gonna is going to make it official here. Google up um Franklin Roosevelt seizes Japanese assets. So, if you find the article here from uh oh, here it is. Mainstream as mainstream could get. You got it. History today right there. On July 26th, 1941, President Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets. Remember this is July, August, September, October, November, December. They attack Pearl Harbor. On July 26, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets. You know why? in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. Wait a minute. Number one, what the hell do I care as an American about this? And who the hell are you to call it French Indochina? You mean Vietnam? Laos said Cambodia. Hey, we're in Algeria. We're in Morocco. We're the French Foreign Legion. is stealing, robbing, pillaging, tin, rub, anything we could get. All right. Gets better. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. Britain where the sun never sets on the British Empire. The numbers came out. They killed over over now you can kill over 400 million people in India died during the UK's occupation of India. And again morons and imbeciles call these little freaks dressed up in these costumes kings. If they were Italian and call them a mafia murderers all over the world. Anyway, Britain and Dutch East Indies, Dutch East. What the hell are you talking about? What they doing in Indonesia? Oh, we're doing the same thing that the English are doing and the French are doing with stealing, robbing, pillaging. The king, the king is in charge. All right, you ready? Here's the results. China Japan lost access to three4s of its overseas trade and 88% of its imported oil. Okay, you stole their money. You cut off 88% of their their trade and they're a trading company. That's how they make their dough. and 88% of their oil when they import 100%. Now they only got 12%. Can't understand why they bomb Pearl Harbor. Can't figure it out. All right. There's going to be a false flag event. That'll make it official. Don't believe me? Believe the facts. Again,.com bust. Right. What happened? NASDAQ was down 80%. America's in a recession. All of a sudden, 911. 911. 90% of the people swallow the crap spewing out of the mouth of that little boy with a paracone smaller than a mothball if he has any. Little Georgie Bush. We're going to get that guy Osama bin Laden dead or alive. 90% of the American people swallowed it. Longest war in American history. Stole trillions of dollars of our money in the name of taxes for the military-industrial complex and killed a couple hundred thousand Afghans. Oh, we lost the war. All right. There's going to be a false flag event. When all else fails, they take you to war. The global economy is failing. And that's why you're going to see World War II. And Gerald, what are your thoughts on Greenland and the president's approach to taking it over because he's been very vocal. He even said he would go as far as using military force. >> Again, I'm telling you, it's insane. But he won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? She just handed it to him. Here, here. Not my language. You know what his um New Year's resolution was on New Year's Eve? peace on earth. You know what he called himself? The most anti-war president in American history. All right. How could you get away with this stuff? You go back to when he was running for president. I had him over here somewhere. His quotes about um [snorts] how uh he was going to Here we go. He's running for office in September 2024. We want to have peace on Earth all over. October 20th, 2024. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. Uh January 25th after he came into office, 2025. I'm moving quickly to end wars, settle conflicts, and restore the planet to peace. I want peace. Lies right in front of your eyes. No outrage. And I'm concerned because look what the ISIS is doing. Look what's going on. Will they come over and kill me, too? Because how dare you speak out against the president? You're not allowed to speak out against genocide either. You're an anti-semite. All right. Look what they're doing in England. Throwing the people in jail. Coming out against what's going on in Israel, in Germany, in France. Throwing people in jail for coming out against it. So again, these are very difficult times. I've been at this for 46 years. Again, I grew up during I'm the same age as Trump, by the way. I'm 79 years old. I grew up during the Vietnam War. Oh, he got five draft deferments. I forgot. But he loves war. Just like genocide or Joe Biden. He got five draft affirments. I got draft affirments, too. I didn't want to get my brains blown out. But again, I launched Occupy Peace. I'm against this. We had a cat by the name of George Washington, a real guy that fought. His farewell address. Read it. Tells America, "Don't get involved in these foreign entanglements. This crap's been going on." And that is not his language, but the the essence. It's been going on for thousands of years. We're not going to fix it. >> And Gerald, >> he said, "Don't love a nation." He said, "Don't love a nation or hate a nation because if you do, you become a slave to them." That's his words. >> Gerald, what do you think Europe does if the president does make a move on Greenland? And and what happened with the NATO? >> He doesn't want NATO. And by the way, I agree with it. We should the whole NATO thing, the whole European Union to me destroyed Europe. It lost it lost its, you know, ethnic identity, the the the Euro. I mean, I I used to date a woman from Paris and one in in in Italy at different times. Spent a lot of time there. I saw the change happen. So, yeah, NATO, they're going to do something, but you know, a little bit of nothing. You know, who knows? And again, Trump keeps changes his mind on stuff. Says one things. He said now he's not going to attack um Iran. And by the way, very important, when he attacked Iran and when he kidnapped Midoro in Venezuela, when did he do it? On the weekend when the markets were closed. So, you're thinking it's going to happen imminently, maybe the weekend? >> I don't know. I don't know. But I'm just saying he does it on the weekend when the markets are closed. The facts are there because he did it when the markets are open. Markets go down, gold prices would spike. And silver, and by the way, I have to go soon, but silver also is going up because of AI. It's used in all this AI stuff or high-tech and and the new batteries coming out very very very very much silver in them and like let's say you got a a a gold chain or gold w uh ring and you you don't throw it out if you're not wearing it. Maybe you'll sell it not with your phone you throw it out your computer you throw it out. It got silver in it. There are no stockpiles of silver. The spiking prices of silver are unbelievable. And again, it's used its industrial value. So, it's very important to look at. So, thank you very much for having me on. I very much appreciate it. I want to ask you one more question before you take off, but you know, you you've expressed a lot of concern about the Gen Z revolution and also the AI bubble and and geopolitics, but when I look at it to 2026, we got it's a we got the midterms coming up in November. And in my mind, the government is going to do anything and everything they can just to keep this economy going, keep the stock market going. Uh with that in mind, like what are your thoughts? What's going to happen here in 2026? I mean, could you be totally wrong in your predictions? Do you think this market just keeps going? Maybe when we talk in a year from now, the S&P is at 8,000 and not 7,000. >> Yeah, they'll do anything to prop it up. Again, you can't I don't make predictions to make trend forecasts. Nobody could predict the future. I would have thought that everything would have crashed when CO happened. I didn't know the governments would pump in trillions of dollars of money backed by nothing and printed on nothing. I thought the markets would crash in 2012. They didn't teach me about zero interest rate policy or quantitative easing in economics 101 or graduate school. They'll make up any crap they want to prop it up. Absolutely. And again, they're going to lower interest rates. And the lower interest rates go, again, the deeper the dollar falls, the deeper the dollar falls, the higher precious metals go up because it's cheaper to buy. So, they're going to do anything they can to prop it up. But again, you never know what's going to happen between now and then. Again, as I say, nobody can predict the future. There are too many wild cards, whether they're made by human or nature. You never know. >> Well, Gerald, this has been a great discussion as always. And if somebody would like to find out more about you, follow you online or read your research, where can they go? >> trendsjournal.com. trendsjournal.com. And if they go to YouTube and see our podcasts and you see the people that subscribe to the magazine, again, I'm not bragging. I'm only giving you the facts. There's no magazine like it in the world. Journalism is dead. I talked about Slick Willy Clinton. This isn't the guy that only killed the GlassSteagall Act and other things. He also had the federal communications act in 197 1996 that allowed the big companies to take over all the media. Back then there were thousands of independent radio stations, TV stations, newspapers and magazines. Now six companies control 92% of the media. We have no advertisers in our magazine. Nobody tells us what to do. And I call the media now prostitutes. media that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government masters. So, we're giving people journalism from technocracy to high-tech science to AI to geopolitics to economics. It's a magazine. You read what you want and it's online. You can listen to it, print it out, whatever you want to do with it. And we're doing it to help the people prepare, prevail, and prosper in these very dangerous times ahead. >> Well, we will include links to those in the show notes below. Well, Gerald, once again, thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Don't forget to sign up for a free portfolio review with one of our endorsed investment partners at wealthon.com/free. With markets hitting all-time highs, now is a great time to stress test your strategy and be prepared for what comes next. Thank you all for watching. We'll see you again next time.
Gerald Celente: China Will Lead the AI Race as the Dollar Declines & WWIII Begins
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AI is the future. Love it, hate it, want it, don't want it, it good, bad, ugly, but who's going to lead it? China. We're getting it because of narco terrorists. Load of crap. What's it now? It's the oil. So, the business of America's war, the business of China's business. We are in the beginning of the end of the dollar being the world currency. Bricks have what? 40% of the world's GDP. A lot of the nations are very disgusted with America's geopolitical and socioeconomic hegemony. They've had Why do you think there's going to be a World War II? >> It's already begun. It's already happening. It it it's just going to is going to make it official. >> Don't forget to sign up for a free portfolio review with one of our endorsed investment partners at wealth.comfree. >> [music] >> Gerald, thank you very much for joining us today. How are things in the great state of New York? >> You know, it's a I'll tell you something. Good question. One of our top trends for 2026 is Gen Z Revolution. We just had one in New York City. Again, I'm a guy, Monopoly, born in the Bronx. All right. I know New York. And um they elected this guy in November, Mandani. Nobody ever heard of him. 34 years old. This is the biggest city in America. They elect a guy that nobody ever heard of again. And with trend forecasting, it's not what you like, what you want, what you wish, it's what is. Why did they elect him? Gen Z. They're broken busted. They're the ones that made it happen. And what does he call himself? a socialist, a democratic socialist. And by the way, go back to Trump when he tried to overthrow the Maduro government back when he was president in 2019, 2020. He called Maduro back then a socialist dictator. Okay. So, a socialist just won in New York City. Why? Because Gen Z is broke and busted. They got no doubt. These are 14 to 29 year olds. They got no doubt what's going on in Nepal. Oh, they overthrew the government a couple of months ago, didn't they? Yeah. Who did it? Gen Z. What happened in Kenya? Gen Z taking the streets. How about Tanzania? Gen Z are out there. Morocco, Madagascar. Hey, what happened over there in Bulgaria a couple of weeks ago? Gen Z overthrew the government. They're broke and busted. Again, only look at the facts. In America, the top 10% own 93% of the equity markets. So the 90% only own 7%. Not too long ago, the average age of first-time home buyers in America, 28 years old, Gen Z, now 40 years old. 50% of all the spending in America from the top 10%. So there's going to be a Gen Z revolution. So you ask me about New York. New York's a crap hole now. Again, I'm not, you know, I I mean, I was there when New York was up and down. I know the I know the place, man. Again, even back, you know, during this the sexual revolution in the se early 70s and 80s, you know, people were getting high and stuff, but you didn't see people shooting out in the street. You didn't see homeless all over the place. You didn't see garbage all over the streets. It's a whole different place. And again, you look at the facts. It's not only New York. When the COVID war happened and looking at other trends, there's going to be a banking bust. It's going to help crash the markets along with a.com bust. Take a trip to to Louisville, Kentucky. Oh, that's where they have the Kentucky Derby. What's the office vacancy rate? About 40%. Chicago. Yeah. 28% vacant. Vacant. Portland, Oregon. Denver, Colorado, Seattle, Washington, vacant. 28% rate. That's according to Moody's. 28% of the offices are vacant. Ain't nobody there. Okay. COVID war started 6 years ago. Just about now on Chinese Luna New Year, the year of the rat, 2020. The leases now. And the people are renting all the space. They're up now. Five, 10 year leases they got. They're not renewing them. There's going to be defaults on these buildings that the banks are not going to have the money to pay it. Go back to 2023. Ain't ancient history. What happened? Three banks in America failed. Silicon, Conman, Valley Bank, uh, First Republic Signature. Three banks. Boop. Down goes the markets. Up goes gold. All right. You're going to see 30 banks fail. Nobody's talking about this. You're not allowed to talk about it. No one will talk about it. Again, only go by the data and the data is there. Yep. The US cities with central business district office vacancy rates are low and they're right down here one after another. Um Dallas, they saying Dallas, this is Moody's 34.4%. St. Louis 33%. San Antonio, Texas 31.4%. Las Vegas 30.7%. Dayton, Ohio, 37.5%. All right, these are the facts. And again, it's turned to crap. All All the vibe is gone, man. All the vibe is gone. Where I'm up here in Hudson Valley, gorgeous. Before COVID, death going out 2 3:00 in the morning, restaurants used to stop serving 10:00 at night. Now they stop serving at 9:00 at night. Streets are empty. Empty 9:00 at night. Whole vibe change, man. So, there's going to be a banking bust that's going to bring down the markets. And as you know in the trends journal, 2024, we said it would be a golden year for gold. It went up almost 30% in 2024. And again, we've been bullish on gold and silver throughout the year. And look at the prices. And the reason the prices are going up is because the global economy is going down. Hey, you want to hear some crap? Big news. Germany, the third largest economy in the world. Third largest. They're in recession for two years. All right. Not this year. 2025. You know what the crap they spewed out yesterday? The economy grew by 0.2%. What are you talking about? Shove that 0.2 up your you know what? Who you talking to? Third largest economy, largest economy in Europe. One after another, they're all going down. That's why you're seeing gold prices go up because of geopolitical and socioeconomic turmoil that's going on. Again, I've been at this for 46 years. One of my books, Trends 2000, international bestseller. Trend Tracking, far better than Mega Trends. Time magazine. Oh, Trends Journal. Yeah. Weekly magazine. This is when it was a quarterly. Autumn 1999.com. This we forecasted.com bust. We said it would bust by the second quarter. 2000. It did. Get ready for combust 2.0. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age, and die. You don't invest all your dough in the baby that was the infant that was born in 2022. AI. All right. AI is the future. Love it, hate it, want it, don't want it, it good, bad, ugly, but who's going to lead it? China. Let's go back a year ago, just about now, week later. Deepseek. Hey, what's a Deep Seek? Oh, a Chinese AI company that brought down Nvidia stock 600 billion dollars in one day. We don't need these big chips. It didn't cost us a hundred million to do our AI. It cost us six million. You don't invest all your dough in the infant that was born. And then you go back to the facts we put in the trends journal. Each week, China is investing very heavily in AI. Country 1.4 billion people. America 343 million. Okay. Back in um 1992 when this arrogant little boy and again I'm a political atheist. Why I want to make this a thousand% clear to me people call it a government and politicians. They they're they're gangsters as I see it. and I was the assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate. I got a picture of me when I did a a brunch for Ronald Reagan with 16 of our board of directors when I used to be on the other side. Been with Major, the clown boy from the UK when I used to do talks. Uh again, I've been there. So, I'm I'm a political atheist. To me, it's a crime syndicate. This is a t-shirt I did when Bill Clinton ran for office in 1992. Beware a slick Willie. This is the slime ball that sold this country out with NAFTA. Get them jobs out of here. Bring them to Bring them to Mexico. You get cheap labor and I get paid off for this. All right. I'M A LITTLE CLOWN WITH NO MONEY, BUT NOW I'M WORTH $130 MILLION. ALL RIGHT. I GET PAID $400,000 AN HOUR TO AT THE GOLDMAN SACHS. ALL RIGHT. That's the guy that sent our jobs. Also, this goes back to AI. You make connections between different fields. 25 years ago, China comes into the World Trade Organization. Back then, 10% of Chinese 18 year olds went to college. Today, nearly 70%. That's right. The West gave China everything they never had. Talking about Germany. Oh, look at the production numbers that just came out. They're way down. Germany, the top of the top. What happened? The western nations went over there, the manufacturers, to use cheap labor when they brought into the World Trade Organization. China's investing very heavily in AI. They don't need the West anymore. Hey, who's the biggest seller of uh electric vehicles? Oh, what's a BYD? They don't need them. They're they're Look, look at China's Do you see their export numbers that came out the other day? broke a record over a trillion bucks, 1.2 trillion in exports. They're going to lead the world. The 20th century was the American century, but the 21st century is going to be the Chinese century because the business of China's business and the business of America is war. Oh, what happened in Venezuela? How many times did Trump bomb Somalia? Oh, I forgot he bow bombing Yemen over there, too. Hey, we're going to get that Greenland. Hey, it's the Gulf of America. Hey, Cuba. Hey, you better watch out. Oh, uh, Nigeria bombs away. Oh, and the clown that won the Nobel Peace Prize, the woman from Venezuela, gave it to Trump yesterday. How about a piece of crap prize? Oh, you don't believe me? How about when Obama got it? Light his way into again. I launched a movement called Occupy Peace over a decade ago and I had peace rallies on for peace. This is the clown boy, a little nothing that became very rich as well. Multi-millionaire now lied his way into office during the Iraq war. I'm going to bring peace. And the Afghan war is going on. Soon as he gets in, the Afghan troop surge. This is the guy that overthrew Gaddafi, Libya. It was the richest country in Africa. Great tourist place. People had more rights and benefits than anybody else. Gaddafi has to go. Oh, he overthrew uh he started the revolution in Syria, too, didn't he? Oh, but he won the Nobel Peace Prize again. You think the United States would have invaded Iraq, Libya, and Syria if their major export was broccoli? Let's go back to Venezuela. Oh, we're getting it because of narco terrorists. Load of crap. What's it now? It's the oil. All right. So, business of America's war, the business of China's business. Going back, young people in China are very advanced. It's a very advanced nation. Look at look at their rail system. What you go about 250 miles an hour? All right. Europe up in Toronto. I go used to go to Montreal a lot. I'm four and a half hours drive. 4 and a half hours from Montreal from where I am in Kingston, New York. You know how long it takes me to get if I take Amrap across the river in Rincliffe? 10 hours. 10 hours on Amcrap. Hey, take the subway in New York. Night in Kolkata. Go to China. Every three minutes trains coming in. [snorts] All right, that's where it's going. Do com bust, office building bust, gold prices spiking, Gen Z revolution are just some of the 12 top trends for 2026. If you're looking for a simple, secure way to invest and own physical gold and silver, visit our sister company, Hardass Assets Alliance at hardassetsalliance.com. That's hardassallalliance.com. >> So, nothing but positive news from you. [laughter] >> Again, tell me what's going on here. Here, wait a minute. Let me let me uh find this over here. Here, can you see this? Could you see this? Could you read it? All right. What do they say over here? Uh, let me get my glasses. Look cool. Stay warm. Look at this sloppy crap. What are you talking about? Look at the way people dress. Look at the crap they eat. Look how the world's going down in front of your eyes. One of my other books is called What Zidzy Gave Honey Boy. I don't know where it is over here. Where is it? Here it is. There used to be a Zizzy is the Neapolitan dialect for auntie. Zia's aunt. Zizzy's auntie. And she used to call me Honey Boy. And it's about growing up in the Bronx and what New York used to be in my parents' generation whenever people all around the world wanted to come here. Here's a there's a picture of my uh parents' wedding. And may they all rest in peace. Aunts, uncles. I don't know if you can see this. Could you see that? Can you see how nice they look? Look Look what they look like. The Great Depression, 1934. All right. My father worked in a fish store. They were laborers. The women worked in factories. Look at the style they used to have. Hey, once upon a time, America's greatest export was music. Jazz, R&B, Mottown, rock and roll. Now, all synthesized crap. Look at the way they look. And look at the way the billionaires look. Again, they say in the King James Bible that the meek shall inherit the earth. They misspelled it. The geeks have inherited the earth. Suckerberg, Peach Eye, Cook. Look at Look at them. Look at these people. All the vibe is gone, man. All the vibe is gone. It breaks my heart. Breaks my heart. >> So, Gerald, you mentioned uh three of your top trends that I really want to hone in on. You said number one was the Gen Z revolution. You spoke quite a bit about that. The second one that I want to do a deeper dive on is the AI and AI bubble. And I have to admit, I really haven't played anything associated with AI outside of owning the spiders or the cues. And when chat GPT came into existence in November of 2022, I can't believe it was only three years ago, but it was valued at $20 billion. Now it's over $500 billion based on the last raise. The other poster child for anything to do with AI is Nvidia. Uh once again when chat came into existence in November of 22 Nvidia was valued at 400 billion now it's over four trillion but what's your maybe you can do a deeper dive on the AI bubble and and what's going to be the catalyst to take it down because I think we both agree it's way overvalued okay but this can go on for quite some time as we've already seen >> again China's going to take it over it's way overvalued you realize that 50% of America's gross domestic product in 2025 was it because of spending in AI? So, the Trends Journal went out, the top trends went out on um on July, excuse me, January 6th, went to Google and typed in top trends for 2026. You ready? AI top trends for 2026 point toward the shift from 2025's quote quiet luxury end quote to quote loud luxury featuring bold colors, exaggerated embellishments, tassels and bows. Who you talking to? That's the top trends if you go to AI. So don't don't subscribe to the trends journal for $259 a week. Go to AI. Swallow the crap that they're putting out there. It's the future. It's the beginning of the worst of the dumbing down of society. Another one of our trends, by the way, is techitis. Young people are totally addicted to this stuff. It's the future. It's the future. and and love it, hate it, it's where it's going to go. And again, China's going to take it over. Just like they here, you know what? How much of America's gross domestic product is from manufacturing? About 10%. All right. And what does China again? They're just their exports hit an all-time high of over a trillion bucks. So AI is going to be it, but China's going to lead the world in it. And they're overinvested in these companies. You start looking at other than Nvidia and a few others, look at the losses. They're not they're deep in debt. They're deep in debt. They're not going to have the money to pay this thing off. There's going to be huge failures. There's going to be a.com bust that's going to crash the equity markets along with the office building bust that's going to bring down the banks as the banks go bust. you one thing I wanted to ask you about is or get your opinion on uh you were talking about the Gen Z revolution and then you also talked about the bust in AI but also how kids are totally addicted to their phones and and I see this all the time but one of the things that really stands out to me is when you talk about the older gen Z's or younger millennials who are able to invest it's like this uh they're just swinging from the fences when it comes to investing. Okay, like they're big into these meme stocks. They're big into cryptocurrencies. They're big into sports betting, like sports betting. It's become like a game. And then the other thing that's really caught on now is are these predictive markets. And this is interesting because the predictive markets are regulated at the federal level, not at the state level. So there's a lot more freedom. And once again, it's almost like a game. You can bet on anything. Now, >> what are your view? >> Right. No, you're 100% right. and and it's and and and the big companies are doing more and more in this predictive stuff. They're they're vest and the young people are totally into it. It's the it's the future. And again, when you're young, you don't know what you you know, you're just starting to grow up, you know. Um I I started growing up when I was about 32 years old. That's when I became a political atheist and started investing in gold and oil when the Iranian conflict broke out. And of course, they taught us to hate Iran just like they teach us right now. And people had no idea back in 1978 when the revolution began that the United States, the CIA and the MI6 the of the UK overthrew the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosadeg in Iran in 1953. You know why? He had the nerve to say that oil in Iran, it belongs doesn't belong to Anglo Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobile. It belongs to the Iranian people. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. They overthrew the government, brought in the Savv, the secret police that made the SS in World War II look like a great group. So, when the revolution happened, I knew this thing was real. But if they teach you to hate them, just like they teach us to hate Russia. When I was a kid, they had us hiding under a desk because an atom bomb may go off. We used to go have air rage rules. So people have no idea. They buy the propaganda. And then this is important, too. Again, we only write the facts. The mainstream media did not report a spiking gold and oil prices in 2025 until around October. Again, we write a weekly magazine. We put the facts in there. This is what the Wall Street Journal reported on gold. Did nothing. Book. Last paragraph. Financial Times. Book. Hardly a word. Hardly a word. Then when they started reporting it, they said prices are going up like they went in 1979,7878. But then they crashed in the 80s, early 80s. No comparison. Again, I started buying gold $163 an ounce back then. Back then, America was number one. Nobody was close to us. China had about a billion people back then. You know what the gross domestic product was in 1978? Under $150 billion. They got a billion people. $150 billion GDP. Now over 20 trillion back then. Why did gold prices go down? Reagan came in. Paul Vulkar pushed up interest rates to like uh 18 to 20%. To stop the inflation, they're not going to raise interest rates now. They're going to lower them. You see what Trump is doing with that guy Powell, the Fed head, and Trump want comes out and says, "I want a weaker dollar so we could export more products." The deeper the dollar goes, the higher gold prices go. This isn't rocket science. Gold is dollar-based. So the lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls, the higher gold prices go up because it's cheaper to buy in other countries as currencies are going up. And we are in the beginning of the end of the dollar being the world currency. The bricks have what 40% of the world's GDP. A lot of the nations are very disgusted with America's geopolitical and socioeconomic hegemony. They've had it. So you're going to see the dollar go. We became the country our founding fathers fought against. Great Britain with the sun never sets on the British Empire. Oh yeah. All the wars you got, what happened after World War I? You spend all this money on wars. Boom. Down goes the pound and the dollar comes up. As I said, the business of America's war. Oh, Trump again, not only by the facts, go back to February 2025. Hey, hey, I'm going to cut the defense budget in half. All right. All right. Oh, what did he say uh about a week ago? Hey, hey, I'm going to add another half a trillion dollars to build up the defense. All right. Oh, with $ 38 trillion in debt. Oh, and how about over there in in in Germany? Mertz, the Black Rockck guy. This is Chancellor. A trillion dollars. A trillion. Again, two years of recession, basically three. Don't tell me you went up 0.2%. And they're borrowing a trillion dollars. We got to build up our defense to stop those Russians. Oh, yeah. We only killed 27 million of them in World War II in Operation Barbar Roa. and got to build up our infrastructure so I can hold the tanks. All of Europe, all of Europe is building up their defense. All the facts building up their defense. No, it doesn't build up your economy. The BS that they're throwing out there, economies are built up when the products that are manufactured are consumed, bought and consumed by the public. This only enriches the military-industrial complex. And look at the stocks going up in the military-industrial complex as all these countries are spending more and more money on defense. So you ask me why I'm concerned because another one of our top trends is World War II. Ukraine war is going to keep going on. There's going to more violence in the Middle East. United States attacking. Oh, you're not allowed to use the word, by the way. Go to BBC. An article came out in Guardian. You can't use the word that the United States kidnapped Maduro and his wife. They captured him. All right. Can't use the word kidnapped. There's going to be blowback. Payback's a as they say. And it's going to happen. That's my greatest concern. >> Why do you think there's going to be a World War III? >> It's already begun. It's already happening. It it it's just gonna is going to make it official here. Google up um Franklin Roosevelt seizes Japanese assets. So, if you find the article here from uh oh, here it is. Mainstream as mainstream could get. You got it. History today right there. On July 26th, 1941, President Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets. Remember this is July, August, September, October, November, December. They attack Pearl Harbor. On July 26, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets. You know why? in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. Wait a minute. Number one, what the hell do I care as an American about this? And who the hell are you to call it French Indochina? You mean Vietnam? Laos said Cambodia. Hey, we're in Algeria. We're in Morocco. We're the French Foreign Legion. is stealing, robbing, pillaging, tin, rub, anything we could get. All right. Gets better. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. Britain where the sun never sets on the British Empire. The numbers came out. They killed over over now you can kill over 400 million people in India died during the UK's occupation of India. And again morons and imbeciles call these little freaks dressed up in these costumes kings. If they were Italian and call them a mafia murderers all over the world. Anyway, Britain and Dutch East Indies, Dutch East. What the hell are you talking about? What they doing in Indonesia? Oh, we're doing the same thing that the English are doing and the French are doing with stealing, robbing, pillaging. The king, the king is in charge. All right, you ready? Here's the results. China Japan lost access to three4s of its overseas trade and 88% of its imported oil. Okay, you stole their money. You cut off 88% of their their trade and they're a trading company. That's how they make their dough. and 88% of their oil when they import 100%. Now they only got 12%. Can't understand why they bomb Pearl Harbor. Can't figure it out. All right. There's going to be a false flag event. That'll make it official. Don't believe me? Believe the facts. Again,.com bust. Right. What happened? NASDAQ was down 80%. America's in a recession. All of a sudden, 911. 911. 90% of the people swallow the crap spewing out of the mouth of that little boy with a paracone smaller than a mothball if he has any. Little Georgie Bush. We're going to get that guy Osama bin Laden dead or alive. 90% of the American people swallowed it. Longest war in American history. Stole trillions of dollars of our money in the name of taxes for the military-industrial complex and killed a couple hundred thousand Afghans. Oh, we lost the war. All right. There's going to be a false flag event. When all else fails, they take you to war. The global economy is failing. And that's why you're going to see World War II. And Gerald, what are your thoughts on Greenland and the president's approach to taking it over because he's been very vocal. He even said he would go as far as using military force. >> Again, I'm telling you, it's insane. But he won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? She just handed it to him. Here, here. Not my language. You know what his um New Year's resolution was on New Year's Eve? peace on earth. You know what he called himself? The most anti-war president in American history. All right. How could you get away with this stuff? You go back to when he was running for president. I had him over here somewhere. His quotes about um [snorts] how uh he was going to Here we go. He's running for office in September 2024. We want to have peace on Earth all over. October 20th, 2024. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. Uh January 25th after he came into office, 2025. I'm moving quickly to end wars, settle conflicts, and restore the planet to peace. I want peace. Lies right in front of your eyes. No outrage. And I'm concerned because look what the ISIS is doing. Look what's going on. Will they come over and kill me, too? Because how dare you speak out against the president? You're not allowed to speak out against genocide either. You're an anti-semite. All right. Look what they're doing in England. Throwing the people in jail. Coming out against what's going on in Israel, in Germany, in France. Throwing people in jail for coming out against it. So again, these are very difficult times. I've been at this for 46 years. Again, I grew up during I'm the same age as Trump, by the way. I'm 79 years old. I grew up during the Vietnam War. Oh, he got five draft deferments. I forgot. But he loves war. Just like genocide or Joe Biden. He got five draft affirments. I got draft affirments, too. I didn't want to get my brains blown out. But again, I launched Occupy Peace. I'm against this. We had a cat by the name of George Washington, a real guy that fought. His farewell address. Read it. Tells America, "Don't get involved in these foreign entanglements. This crap's been going on." And that is not his language, but the the essence. It's been going on for thousands of years. We're not going to fix it. >> And Gerald, >> he said, "Don't love a nation." He said, "Don't love a nation or hate a nation because if you do, you become a slave to them." That's his words. >> Gerald, what do you think Europe does if the president does make a move on Greenland? And and what happened with the NATO? >> He doesn't want NATO. And by the way, I agree with it. We should the whole NATO thing, the whole European Union to me destroyed Europe. It lost it lost its, you know, ethnic identity, the the the Euro. I mean, I I used to date a woman from Paris and one in in in Italy at different times. Spent a lot of time there. I saw the change happen. So, yeah, NATO, they're going to do something, but you know, a little bit of nothing. You know, who knows? And again, Trump keeps changes his mind on stuff. Says one things. He said now he's not going to attack um Iran. And by the way, very important, when he attacked Iran and when he kidnapped Midoro in Venezuela, when did he do it? On the weekend when the markets were closed. So, you're thinking it's going to happen imminently, maybe the weekend? >> I don't know. I don't know. But I'm just saying he does it on the weekend when the markets are closed. The facts are there because he did it when the markets are open. Markets go down, gold prices would spike. And silver, and by the way, I have to go soon, but silver also is going up because of AI. It's used in all this AI stuff or high-tech and and the new batteries coming out very very very very much silver in them and like let's say you got a a a gold chain or gold w uh ring and you you don't throw it out if you're not wearing it. Maybe you'll sell it not with your phone you throw it out your computer you throw it out. It got silver in it. There are no stockpiles of silver. The spiking prices of silver are unbelievable. And again, it's used its industrial value. So, it's very important to look at. So, thank you very much for having me on. I very much appreciate it. I want to ask you one more question before you take off, but you know, you you've expressed a lot of concern about the Gen Z revolution and also the AI bubble and and geopolitics, but when I look at it to 2026, we got it's a we got the midterms coming up in November. And in my mind, the government is going to do anything and everything they can just to keep this economy going, keep the stock market going. Uh with that in mind, like what are your thoughts? What's going to happen here in 2026? I mean, could you be totally wrong in your predictions? Do you think this market just keeps going? Maybe when we talk in a year from now, the S&P is at 8,000 and not 7,000. >> Yeah, they'll do anything to prop it up. Again, you can't I don't make predictions to make trend forecasts. Nobody could predict the future. I would have thought that everything would have crashed when CO happened. I didn't know the governments would pump in trillions of dollars of money backed by nothing and printed on nothing. I thought the markets would crash in 2012. They didn't teach me about zero interest rate policy or quantitative easing in economics 101 or graduate school. They'll make up any crap they want to prop it up. Absolutely. And again, they're going to lower interest rates. And the lower interest rates go, again, the deeper the dollar falls, the deeper the dollar falls, the higher precious metals go up because it's cheaper to buy. So, they're going to do anything they can to prop it up. But again, you never know what's going to happen between now and then. Again, as I say, nobody can predict the future. There are too many wild cards, whether they're made by human or nature. You never know. >> Well, Gerald, this has been a great discussion as always. And if somebody would like to find out more about you, follow you online or read your research, where can they go? >> trendsjournal.com. trendsjournal.com. And if they go to YouTube and see our podcasts and you see the people that subscribe to the magazine, again, I'm not bragging. I'm only giving you the facts. There's no magazine like it in the world. Journalism is dead. I talked about Slick Willy Clinton. This isn't the guy that only killed the GlassSteagall Act and other things. He also had the federal communications act in 197 1996 that allowed the big companies to take over all the media. Back then there were thousands of independent radio stations, TV stations, newspapers and magazines. Now six companies control 92% of the media. We have no advertisers in our magazine. Nobody tells us what to do. And I call the media now prostitutes. media that get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government masters. So, we're giving people journalism from technocracy to high-tech science to AI to geopolitics to economics. It's a magazine. You read what you want and it's online. You can listen to it, print it out, whatever you want to do with it. And we're doing it to help the people prepare, prevail, and prosper in these very dangerous times ahead. >> Well, we will include links to those in the show notes below. Well, Gerald, once again, thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Don't forget to sign up for a free portfolio review with one of our endorsed investment partners at wealthon.com/free. With markets hitting all-time highs, now is a great time to stress test your strategy and be prepared for what comes next. Thank you all for watching. We'll see you again next time.