Gold's Surge to $10K as World 'On Verge of NUCLEAR Annihilation': Gerald Celente
Summary
Geopolitical Tensions: Gerald Celente predicts that rising global conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war and tensions in the Middle East, could drive gold prices to $10,000 an ounce, but warns of the risk of nuclear annihilation.
US Foreign Policy: The podcast discusses the US's shifting stance on international conflicts, including military involvement in Ukraine and potential actions against Venezuela and Iran, highlighting the unpredictability of political leaders.
Gold Market Outlook: Gold has surged 45% this year due to geopolitical and economic instability, with Celente forecasting a potential rise to $10,000 per ounce as global tensions escalate.
Economic Concerns: The discussion touches on the potential collapse of the US dollar and the impact of high national debt, with predictions of a shift towards digital currencies and stablecoins.
BRICS vs. The West: The BRICS nations are seen as emerging winners in the global economic landscape, with increasing use of gold for trade settlements and diminishing reliance on the US dollar.
Market Predictions: Celente anticipates a significant correction in overvalued tech stocks, drawing parallels to the dot-com bust, and warns of potential banking failures due to commercial real estate loan defaults.
Precious Metals Investment: Silver is also highlighted as a strong investment, outperforming gold with a 60% increase year-to-date, as both metals benefit from economic uncertainty.
Transcript
Hello everybody and welcome into commodity culture where we break down commodities markets, sound money principles and geopolitics all with the goal of making you a better investor in the commodities sector. My name is Jesse Day and on this episode I'm thrilled to welcome Gerald Cente to the program. A worldrenowned trend forecaster with an over 40-year track record of identifying, tracking, and forecasting trends. He is a best-selling author and the publisher of the trends journal. Gerald warns that while he believes geopolitical uncertainty and an increase in wars worldwide will push gold to $10,000 an ounce, the trade-off is that we could be standing on the precipice of nuclear annihilation. As the leaders calling the shots have completely lost their minds and are willing to sacrifice anything, including their own people, to destroy their enemies. We dive into the Russia Ukraine conflict, the Israel Palestine war, the new wars brewing in Venezuela and Iran, and so much more. So strap yourselves in for my conversation with Gerald Cente. Gerald Cente, great to have you back on Commodity Culture. Global conflict seems to be rising on all fronts, and I think to nobody's surprise, the US is being involved in all major wars being waged. I want to start with Trump's U-turn from trying to get a peace deal done between Russia and Ukraine to now claiming Ukraine can not only win the war, but they can take back all of their conquered territory. And the US now looking like they will likely provide long range Tomahawk missiles and even potentially help Ukraine identify good targets to strike in Russian territory. A lot of military experts coming out and saying the missiles themselves will have to be launched by US operatives as well. Why do you think this change of stance has occurred and what would the implications be of Russia of Ukraine striking Russia with US backing? The why is a you know I've been at this for 45 years. I have best-selling books trends 2000 international bestseller trend tracking far better than mega trends time magazine publish a weekly trends journal magazine we do top trends every year. This is the first year one of our top trends was wild card because another one was the Trump card. Hey, you elect me, I'm going to end that Ukraine war 24 hours. All right. All right. Hey. Hey, I got elected now. That war is going to end before I get into office. All right. All right. Hey, how about that little arrogant little clown boy Kellogg? Oh, yeah. the uh the US guy, you know, the ad the the envoy guy over there. Yeah. January, we're going to end that Ukraine war in a 100 days. And now this fat mouth Kellogg Frosted Flake is spewing out the crap about how Ukraine is going to become the winner of the war. You're asking me why. Why do you ask a freak that bullshits his way into office why? Why is he changing his mind? Because he's a he's full of That's why. You got it. Look at all the tariffs. This way, that way, this way, that way, this way, that way. Oh, now we're going to go after Venezuela. I forgot. Oh, we got to stop that drug dealing. Hey, wait a minute. You tried to overthrow the government when you were president back in 2019 and 2020. You brought in that little guyo guy. Remember that little clown boy of nothing? Remember that little jerk off over there? Oh, and how much of Europe supported Trump's to overthrow the Maduro government? Oh, it was nothing about drugs back then. You think the United States would invaded Iraq, Syria, and Libya if their major export was broccoli? It's all about oil. You're asking why is he changing his mind? You don't ask a lying, narcissistic piece of why. And it ain't only him. How about the little Mertz boy over there next to uh Germany that killed over 25 million Russians in Operation Barbar Roa in World War II. Germany. third largest economy in the world, biggest in Europe. Hey, you're in a recession for two years, but we're going to build our military because we have to stop the Russians. So, we're going to get trillion dollars in debt to build up our military. H mers a little black rock guy, right? Oh, I forgot. Yeah. Where's the outrage? How about that little Gatsson Mcron with a peck of the size of a pencil if he has one at all? Oh, we may put troops over there in Ukraine. We got to stop those Russians. Oh, the Germans. Didn't you like World War I? No, I like World War II better. Yeah, let's give them World War II. Look at the crap they're selling about. We got to stop the Russians because they're going to invade Europe. You got crazy people, maniacs. Oh, I forgot Netanyahu. Oh, I forgot that little boy star over there in in the UK. How about an FU ck UK? Huh? It's a freak show and the freaks are running the show and the story. You don't ask why a murderer is a murderer, a thief is a thief, a rapist is a rapist. They're evilminded people, narcissistic pieces of End the story. The sponsor of today's episode is Ark Silver Gold Osmium. Owner Ian Everard is praised even by his competitors as one of the most honest and level-headed bullion dealers in the United States. They have some great prices. You can see some of them displayed right now on screen. Take advantage of these specials today by reaching out to Ian at 3072649441 or by email at ianarchsg.com. Make sure to tell them of course that commodity culture sent you. And now back to the interview. Are we in a situation now where the political rulers uh because the the thing that comes closest to mind to me is a cacistocracy essentially a rule by the worst of the worst which is seems like it's been spreading globally in your you've had a very long experience in politics and speaking to these people and dealing with these people. Is it worse than you've ever seen now? Or is this type of behavior from from politicians? This type of reckless evil behavior just part for the course. Yep. What's your favorite war? You like the Pelpeneisian War. Maybe you like the 100red-year war. Hey, wasn't the War of Roses lovely? What's your favorite crusade? Well, I like the eighth better than the third. It's been going on forever. It's been going on forever, but now this is very serious. You know, once upon a time, there was this cat by the name of Einstein. Knew a thing or two about the atomic bomb. They asked him, "What kind of weapons will be used to fight the third world war?" He said, "I don't know, but they'll be using sticks and stones to fight the fourth. That's where we're at. I had a peace rally and I I launched a movement called Occupy Peace. We just had one last week. Judge Npalitano, Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria, U. Roger Waters did a streaming, did a song about it. Um, uh, Dennis Cassinich, former congressman, guy ran for, uh, president. Load of people. Smallest turnout in 11 years. top PR firm sent out thousands of emails uh uh you know press releases international, national and local zero coverage and the people that showed up they were like the average age is probably 60 years old. No young people. Peace is a dirty word. No this America no peace. No, no, no. Shut the hell up. You're not allowed to talk about peace. You're not allowed to be on the mainstream media. Get the hell out of here. We are on the verge of nuclear annihilation. Israel is going to ramp up the war. It's going to be bombs away over Iran. And you about know about the Samson option. Israel says if they lose, they go nuclear. They got between 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. Oh, and you don't have to be good at math to figure this out. Look at the 91 million Iranians versus 7 million Israelis. And the Iranians are very advanced scientifically, technologically, militarily. You go to war against Iran, they're going to wipe out Israel, but Israel is going to go nuclear. And the United States is going to join them. And all this money that they're spending all of Europe with their GDP now 5% of their GDP going going to the military-industrial complex. Yeah, it's a waste of money. It's a waste of these tanks are going to be useless. It's all new millennium warfare here. New Millennium Warfare I wrote about in my book Tren 2000 in 1997. I was brought down to the um Virginia Military Institute, VMI, to talk about new millennium warfare back in 2000. I'm saying all of this stuff, these planes, the tanks, the ships, this is useless stuff in the new millennium. Oh, there were no they weren't talking about drones back then. It's a whole different warfare. And there's no Hey, where are all the Hey, where all you Quakers? Would you die in an earthquake? How come you're not out there for peace? Where are all these religions? Where all you you priests? Are you always scooting around little boys? I forgot. Yeah. Yeah. And where where's the pope over there? Well, I got my uh white socks hat on, you know, but I won't go to I won't go to Well, I don't like what's going on there. Why don't you go there and try to stop it? Where are these religions? Where are they? They're gutless little clowns all across the planet. That's where they are. Because if the people stood up and fought for we the people instead of you the politicians, the whole game would change. All we are are it's not we the people, it's we the puppets. All right. Well, speaking of trying to stop the genocide, the UN United Nations Commission has officially declared Israel's actions in a in Gaza to be a genocide. But as you pointed out in a recent episode of the edition of the trends journal, this is basically meaningless because it's just being ignored. There's no enforcement structure in place to actually take action to stop a genocide from happening. So what what can they do? The majority of delegates walked out in protest when BB recently gave a speech at the UN, but that does not affect him at all. He he doesn't care about that, right? So, how how can we actually hold people accountable like Netanyahu and and stop these genocides if if the UN is just saying it's a genocide. America and Israel completely ignore it. How does that ever get solved? The only way it can get solved is if the people unite and say stop. End of story here. Again, I've been at this a lot of years and as you know, I I was the assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate. I have a picture of me and Ronald Reagan when I put on a brunch when I was 30 years old for for uh 16 of our board of directors went with the prince of Norway major that I' I've been with you I've been on the other side I know the facts once upon a time there was a thing called the Berlin wall how come it came down because the people went out and more people came and they didn't leave day after day week after week more and more people came and they didn't leave and they outnumbered the little boys in their drag costumes with guns by about 20,000 to one. They put down their guns, took off their costumes, and the wall came down. Look what's going on in Israel. Week after week, major protests doesn't do anything. You got to protest and not leave. If we here America country of 300 what 47 million people let's say 10 million 10 million went to Washington DC and closed down the place and said stop these wars stop these wars if they flooded the streets we're not leaving it would end like that it would end like that they're gutless Again, these when I put on these rallies, they cost me a lot of money. This last one cost me over $20,000 to do, little support, no press coverage. The only way it will happen is if we the people unite. And when I talk about we the people about three weeks ago I took out the domain name we the people's party us and then a week ago I took out the domain name we the people's party.world. Those domains should have been gone when the internet revolution began back in the 1990s. That shows you how we the people don't count. and how we the people don't unite. It's as simple as that. If we the people rather Hey, remember they used to call politicians public servants? No, no, no. You're the servant. You're a plantation worker of slave landing. Well, it seems like one of the ways that the Trump administration is trying to crack down at home and continue this divide between left and right is what he calls I believe he said exactly a war an enemy from within. So there was this recent big all the military brass got together Pete Hegathth giving them this big speech saying how we're going to we're going to become all about war again which was found very interesting. Now, I I want to read a quote from President Trump. He gave a speech at the meeting as well. He said, "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control." So, of course, people are looking at this and saying he's basically looking to impose some sort of martial law, start deploying troops all around America. supporters say, "Well, these are dangerous cities. We need somebody to come in and clean up because the the governors, the mayors, the the political class aren't lifting a finger." What are your thoughts on this whole this whole event and this thought of fighting the enemy within? It's again, look at the facts. It's pure censorship. You had that Bondi the the attorney general saying it, you know, hate speech. You're not allowed to have hate speech. I can't hate somebody for slaughtering innocent people. No, it's it's again it's put it all together. Once upon a time, there was this guy named Mussolini, fascism. What did Trump just do with Intel? The United States just took 10% of the company and now he's talking about doing more with other companies. Not my definition, Mussolini's. And going back to the censorship, the merger of state and corporate powers is fascism. It's a fascist country. Go back to Trump when he punished all these university students and universities for coming out against the genocide right in front of everybody's eyes. Hate speech. Again, it's in your trends journal. One article after another. Yeah, there's one over here that um just give you an example. Car plans to keep going after media. The FCC chair has threatened TV licenses over what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts. All right. Oh, wait a minute. You don't like liberal? No. No, I don't like liberal. I'm gonna stop it. Hey. Hey, fat mouth. Who the hell are you to say who should say what? I got to swallow your Yes. Yes. You be You're still in kindergarten. You swallow my All right. Right in front of everybody's eyes. Right here. right here. Yeah. You ready for this? Narrative war pits Pentagon against press. This is New York Times 9:25 this year, September 25th. Imagine for a moment that the defense department's new demand for quote a pledge from Pentagon reporters a commitment not to publish even unclassified information except what press officers approve. All right, Mussolini, the country's gone to It's a hole in every different way. The roads are rotted. The bridges are collapsing. Amtrak. How about AMC crap? I'm 4 and a half hours from Canada where I am in Kingston, New York. 4 and a half hours. You take AMC crap 10 hours to get to Montreal. 10 hours when I could drive there in four and a half subways in New York and night in Kolkata. But we're gonna spend a trillion dollars for the military-industrial complex. All right. When all else fails, they take you to war. The economies are failing. Hey, what about gold prices? Well, who cares about what gold prices are? Hey, but you look, it's gone up 45% this year. Not a word. Not a word. Go to CNBC. Go to Wall Street Journal. Go to the New York Times. One article in the Financial Times over like a week and a half. One one major article. No major articles in any of the magazines, in any of the newspapers rather, about why gold prices are spiking. Gold prices are spiking because of the fear of geopolitical insecurity and socioeconomic distress. period. Paragraph up 45% this year. Shut your mouth. Don't talk about it because we don't want the people to know how bad things are. So, keep investing in that stock market. The Trends Journal has been predicting this rise in gold for some time now. Um, I wonder what your thoughts are in terms of how early we are in this gold bull market. Obviously, none of us want to see further geopolitical chaos or war escalation, but it looks like those things are all on the table. Do you expect gold to continue to climb here? And and how long and how far do you think gold could go? Gold could go to $10,000 an ounce. And but you got you have to put all this stuff together. Again, as we're speaking now, it's $3,840. the economy. The numbers just came out today on um new hirings totaled 204,939 so far in 2025. This is according to challenger gray and Christmas from the same period a year ago. The lowest level since 2009. 2009, the height of the Great Recession. That's where job numbers are. All right. They're going to lower interest rates. The lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls. The deeper the dollar falls, the higher gold prices go. Gold is dollar-based. So now, as the other currencies go up, it's cheaper to buy gold in other countries. And that's what's going to happen. They're going to keep lowering interest rates. The death of the dollar is before us. But again, as I said, wild card orwell could not have come up with a better name than stable coins. All right. All the banks are going to go CBDC. Oh, what? They just came out last week that the uh the international debt level is about $340 trillion. How you going to get rid of it there? No way. When you look at the United States debt level, no, it's not 37 trillion. When you put Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all the other government expenses, it's well over a hundred trillion. We got a new coin. They're going to come out with a digital coin. As we're speaking again, we call things the way they are, not the way we want them to be. We've been very bullish on Bitcoin, particularly when Trump got elected. This is the guy that's made fun of Bitcoin when he wasn't president back in 20121 and 20 calling it a bunch of crap. How terrible it is killing the dollar. Hey, but now my family's in it. Shut the hell up, Cente. Hey, I Witoff and Jerkoff and and and and Lutnik and this guy, the guys that are in the cabinet, their kids are in it. All right, shut the hell up. Oh, I got a hund00 million dollars from the crypto gang when I ran for president. All right. Oh, they gave me tens of millions of dollars when I got inaugurated. And now, as was speaking again, last week, crypto is down to like $109,000 a coin. $109,000 for something invented with nothing behind it. And now it's up, as we're speaking, 118,000. The gangs in charge. They're going to go from dirty cash to digital trash. It's going to happen. And the reason they're also going that they're going to say this digital coin is worth way more than our debt level. So, we just got wiped out our debt level. And they want digital because they know every penny you spent, where you spent it, what you spent it on, so they could get their tax money. Most important. So that's where we see it going. So are you turning more bearish at Bitcoin at this point in time now that the administration has gotten so heavily involved? Do you think that involvement could kind of remove one of the main aspects of Bitcoin that so many people were so bullish on which was the fact that governments it kind of bypassed the government. Now it seems the government's directly involved. Does that change things in your view? No. We we see going up again. the gang is in in in investing in it. Look at Again, you can't make this crap up. You just saw this this article that see I have it over here about um Trump's uh son-in-law Jared Kushner doing a deal in um in uh with Saudi Arabia. $55 billion deal. 55 billion. Oh, and Trump opening up Trump Towers all throughout all throughout the Middle East. All they're interested in is making money. Bottom line, they're going to do everything they can to make as much money as they can. Yep. And uh it's not going to stop. Trump's b This is Financial Times. Trump's businesses expanded booming Gulf real estate with $1 billion Red Sea deal. The project, the Trump Organization's second planned tower in Jada, will include offices, high-end apartments and town houses. Um the Trump Organization has also licensed its name to DAR Global to Project to projects in Dubai, Oman, and Qatar. Okay. All right. All right. Right in front of your eyes. Right in front of your eyes. The president doing this kind of crap. Hey, my sons are doing it. Shut the hell up. You know, by the way, I had lunch with um Trump's brother, Robert, back in um see there's another one here. Hold it. Uh here we go. Is this it? No. I had I had lunch with his brother Robert back in uh 2017 when Trump was president. The brother went on to tell me he had a restaurant over here in WY which is across the river from Mayhem. He went on to tell me that when the father died, I think it was like 2002 their father died that the father left the family over a half a billion dollars worth of real estate. So Trump is nothing more than a spoiled daddy's boy and it's just going to keep going on and on. They're going to do everything they can to um keep pumping up the crypto markets and the economy. So yeah, Trump Trump to send more troops into US cities. I mean this is unbelievable. And these guys with their masks on, these ICE guys. I mean, is what is this? The SS? No, the Slovak. I forgot. Yeah, which one? I wonder what your thoughts are on the bricks at this point in time and the moves they're making. We recently saw Russia and China sign anou regarding natural gas flows through this upcoming power of Siberia 2 pipeline. They're also increasing natural gas flows through Power Siberia 1. Of course, that's gas that could have been going to Europe, which desperately needs it, but has sanctioned Russian energy. Um, we're also seeing the Shanghai gold exchange. There's a lot of talk about them opening vaults in BRICS member countries and then starting to use gold more and more as a as a way to settle trades. And it seems like that BRICS alliance is only strengthening as the US seems to be pushing its allies away. What are your thoughts on on the the bricks versus the West at this point in time? The bricks are going to be the winner. You guys go by the numbers. What do you got? 1.4 billion people living in China, 1.4 billion in India. They had enough of the United States geopolitical and socioeconomic agy. They're finished. America's become the country that our founding fathers fought against, Great Britain. War, war, war, war, war. And again, go back all the wars where the sun never sets on the British Empire. After World War I, the pound died. The dollar became the most important currency. And now the United States is war war. The dollar is going to die. It's the death of the dollar's on the way. And again, going back to digital, now there's talk about digital gold, right? they go digital gold, that could wipe out a lot of the cryptos because now you have a crypto backed by gold. We're very positive on the gold future. Very. And again saddle again in in my book trend tracking far better than mega trends time magazine I wrote about how I first started buying gold in 1978 when the Iranian conflict broke out and they taught us to hate the Iranians without 99.9999% of the Americans knowing how the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosade in 1953 because democratically elected government of Iran because he had the nerve to say, "No, that oil does not belong to Anglo Iranian oil, better known today as BP or Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobile. This oil is the Iranian people's oil." No, it's not. No, it's not. And they overthrew the guy and they brought in the Savak, the secret police that made the SS look good. So, when the rally started to happen against the shop back in the 70s, late 70s, that's when I started buying gold. My first buy of gold was $163 an ounce. The times now are worse than that. The way gold is spiking now is beyond. Again, pick up any of the major media. Not a word. Not a word about gold's prices spiking. Let's just talk about AI. Just talk about AI. Do you have any thoughts on silver here? Because as gold uh continues to climb to new all-time highs basically every day, silver is also having its own massive breakout up around 60% year-to date, outperforming gold, which is up around 45% and now approaching previous all-time highs at least in nominal terms when you adjust for inflation. Of course, we would need triple digits. Are you watching the silver market right now? And what are your thoughts on the trajectory of that metal? Oh, absolutely. Very positive on silver, too. Precious metals of the future again. Oh, by the way, I found the article about Trump's son-in-law again about the crime syndicate. You ready? Electronic arts goes private for $55 billion in records shattering leveraged buyout. Video game maker Electronic Arts is being taken private by a Saudibbacked consortium led by Jared Kushner and Silverlake in a $55 billion deal that ranks as the biggest ever leverage buyout. Jared Kushner, you mean Trump's son-in-law? Saudi Arabia? Well, I mentioned before about Qatar, Oman, UAE, right? This is why the Arab nations have not united to stop the Gaza genocide. Let's go back to 1973, the Amipa war, the Arab nations united and cut off oil going into Europe and the United States. Brent crude quadrupled in price. Not now. Now actually they even you saw OPEC plus just came out. They putting more oil in. As we're speaking now what bread cruds around $64 a barrel. They're putting more more supply when demand is going down. That's how much they need the money. That's how bad it is. And again, you're seeing what's going on over here. This is right in front of everybody's eye. Oh, Jared Kushner. Oh, when Netanyahu used to come to America, he used to stay at the Kushner's family's house. Oh, yeah. That Jared Kushner. That Jared Kushner we quote in the Trends Journal back in March of 2024. 2024. The land in Gaza is quote very valuable waterfront property and the Palestinians should be moved into the NGV desert. Oh, that's Jared Kushner. Yeah. So, I wonder all these wars that America seems to be getting involved in. We of course have Russia Ukraine, which it now looks like they're going to at least partially get involved in. Um, Venezuela, as you mentioned, they bombed a couple of boats they claim were trafficking drugs. I don't think that story quite adds up. And now there's talk of them striking inside Venezuelan territory itself. Um, of course, Israel and the US versus Iran is another potential conflict that could grow bigger. We saw that short war um with with both the US and Iran uh and Israel striking Iran and and there's a lot of talk about that being rekindled. Again, you say don't ask why cuz these people are just sick, but what is the purpose of the US getting involved on so many fronts? Is this kind of the last gasp of a dying US hegemony that is lashing out to try and keep itself relevant? Is this a show of strength? Well, what is this? Again, it's been going on. You know, this one of my sayings is when all else fails, they take you to war. Go back. Let's the Israel war. Let's go back to 19, excuse me, 2023, January. Netanyahu wins the election in December 2022, late December. There were protests going on. These are facts. Anybody could look them up. There were protests going on in Israel week after week, week after month, month after month against Netanyahu's judicial reform act that basically said, "We're doing away with the court system, and I'm in charge. This way, I don't have to go to court for the crimes that they say have been committed against them." 39 weeks of protests were going on. Not my language, the language of Isaac Herszog, the president of Israel. In 2023, there's a civil war going on in Israel. October 7th, Hamas attacks. Everybody forgot about it. And again, we only write the facts. Three days after the attack, it was reported that the United States and Egypt had warned Israel that the attack was coming. Not my language. Again, as trend forecasts is what we do is we follow the world. We subscribe to the Israeli newspaper. We read the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Wet. Oh, we also read IRNA, ISNA, uh, Press TV, Tran Times. We want to hear what the Iranians have to say. We go to Arab news. We go to al the Arabs have to say, we go to European news. They have to say. So, we look at all the information. Haha. That's then reported. The Netanyahu government knew this attack was going to come. They let it happen. When all else fails, they take it to war. this history today. See the thing up there? What was going on in 1941? Well, the United States was in a deep depression. United States freezes Japanese assets on July 24th. Excuse me, is 1941. On July 26th, 1941, President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. You know why? Because in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. Wait a minute. Number one, what the hell do I care as an American? What's going on with Japan and French Indo-China? What the hell are the French doing in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia? And you're calling it French Indochina? No, we're also in Algeria, Morocco, for Africa. We're stealing and robbing, pillaging, anything we want. We'll call it French Indo-China. Oh, French Foreign Legion. I forgot. Okay, you ready? Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. Dutch East Indies. What the hell are the Dutch doing in Indonesia and you're calling it Dutch East Indies? We're doing the same thing that the British are doing and which son never sets on the British Empire and we're doing what the English are doing where and and by the way I'm sick and tired of hearing this word king. If they were Italian you'd call him a mafia murderous pieces of scum. Anyway, swung into action. The result, Japan lost access to three4s of its overseas trade. You ready? And 88% of its imported oil. They only import 100%. Now wait a minute. You just cut off all their trade and this that's their exporting country and you cut off all their oil. Can't understand why they bomb Pearl Harbor. Can't figure it out. They don't tell you this. They don't teach you this. When all else fails, they take you to war. The Great Depression was going on. Before this happened, 80% of the American people were against getting involved in what was going on in Europe. Let's go back to the.com bust, which we forecast in the trends journal when it was a quarterly right here.com. This we said it would bust by the second quarter 2000. We wrote, "Do overload will short circuit high expectations for huge profits in internet commerce, entertainment, and a wide array of dotcom services. Following the holiday season, many of today's high-flying internet stocks, the hottest IPOs, the newly emerging IPO wannabes will become their descent from their overvalued heights." We said it would crash by the second quarter of 2000, which it did. And what happened? The NASDAQ lost 80% of its value. That was March. It crashed of 20 of the year 2000. Oh, what followed that? 911. Everybody forgot about the.com bust and they created the fake housing market and the derivative scheme. All right. The same thing is going to happen. They're going to take us to war and the people will unite. There'll be a false flag event like a like a kind of like a bombing of Pearl Harbor kind of thing but different where the people will unite against it. 90% of the American people swallow the crap coming out of little Georgie Bush's mouth after 9/11. We're going to get that guy Osama bin Laden. Get him alive. The longest war in American history. trillions of dollars of our money wasted and hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered in Afghanistan. 90% of the people swallowed this crap. Same things are going to happen again if we the people don't unite. And they're not. It's not going to happen. We're not going to unite. I think one of the biggest barriers that people face your average everyday person on the street is they can't grasp how evil their political leaders are. These are people that are usually narcissists at best and bloodthirsty psychopaths at worst who actually enjoy inflicting death and suffering. People cannot wrap their heads around the fact that these people who are supposed to be taking care of them and looking out for them and be servants of the public are actually monsters. I think that's the main barrier to entry that people have. And again, it's it's once upon a time there was this guy by the name of Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, supreme command of the Allied forces in World War II and two-term president. He warns the American people that the military-industrial complex is robbing the nation of the genius of the scientists, sweat of the labors and the futures of children. It's also the Eisenhower. He was a president like I think Columbia univers Yeah, it was Columbia University. They wanted him to run for president. He didn't really want to. You could Google it up. He says any man seeking the office of president is either an egoomaniac or crazy. So it's exactly what you said. Well, before I let you go, Gerald, my final question is you mentioned that the trends journal called the dot bust. I wonder if you're seeing similar signs now in these tech stocks. Um, and this overvalued AI, the MAG 7 obviously continues to climb. The three major indices, uh, the the Dow Jones, the S&P, and the Nasdaq continue to climb higher, grind higher. It's a little bit slower now, but it's still moving upwards. Um, do you think we're going to see some moment where we get a similar correction that that 50 to 80% crash? Do you foresee something like that happening up ahead? Or are we in a different era where the government and and the Fed and you know these forces behind the scenes are getting so involved that at all costs they're going to try to keep the stock market afloat. At all cost they're going to keep the stock market aloat and if it crashes they'll do everything to pump it back up again. Let's go back and I'll go back to the dot in a second. It's a crime syndicate. They're murderers and thieves. We talked about the murder of the war. Let's talk about the thieves. What happened with the panic of08? The domain, by the way, that I took out in 2007. The Federal Reserve pumped in 29 trillion with a T dollars to bail out the banks. That's according to the Levian student Bart College. It's a crime syndicate. Let's go back to the.com bus. Go back to your trends journal. February January 28th of this year. Bus 2.0. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. AI became public just three years ago. It's an infant. You don't invest all your dough in the infancy of the new whether it's high-tech heavy industry. You don't invest all your money in the first baby born. And that's what they've done. Cover our magazine on February 5th of this year. Do com Bus 2.0. Once upon a time, another slime ball is president. This is a t-shirt that I did back in 1992 when Bill Clinton was running for president. Beware of SL. Oh, by the way, here's another t-shirt you could get by going to Trends Journal. Just to show you the way I feel about politicians. We feel the same way. That's for sure. All right. I'll make sure to put a link below so people can can purchase those shirts. So, Bill Clinton brought brought China into the World Trade Organization. He also gave us NAFTA. Get these manufacturing jobs out of America. You can make more money and give it back to me. Now, I'm worth $130 million. A little nobody from our hand saw. $130 million now. Anyway, he brings China into the World Trade Organization. They officially came in two weeks after 9/11. Let's go back to 2000. And again, this has to do with 10% of Chinese 18y olds went to college back then. Now, almost 70%. 70% of the country, 1.4 billion verse 347 million in America. Country is dumbing down. By the way, young people are totally AI and high-tech addicted. China's investing very heavily in the AI market. It's the future. Again, like it, don't like it, it's what is. And what's going to happen, you already saw it with Deep Seek. It didn't cost them $100 million to do what they did. It only cost them six million. Oh, and we don't need these big ships. who need smaller ones. Get Nvidia out of China. We're developing our own. Same thing with India. There's going to be a.com bust. They've way over in. Look at the PE ratio. It's way it's way out of line. There's going to be a.com bust. And again, when all those fails, they're going to take us to war. They'll get the people's mind off it. And again, the Fed will do what they did before. I thought the markets would crash in 2012. All right, I was wrong. They did not teach me about zero interest rate policy or a thing called quantitative easing in economics 101 or graduate school. They'll make up any crap they want. Again, digital coin, CBD, they're going to do everything they can to artificially prop this up. It's going down. It's going to crash. No one. No one anywhere. Any here, Google it up. Go to Castle Systems. Look up the office uh occupancy rate. My looked it up uh couple of days ago. 54%. What's the office vacancy rate? Nobody in the buildings. It was 11% before the COVID war and now it's 20%. There's going to there's going to be failures. They're not going to be able to pay the on these office buildings. All there's going to be a collapse. Banks are not going to be able to cover the loans. Again, I thought things would crash when they locked down the world. I didn't know they'd bring interest rates down to zero, keep them negative in Europe, and and and pump in countless trillions of dollars of fake money back by nothing and print it on nothing. It's all coming to an end now. No one's talking about the office building bust. Go back to 2023, not ancient history. Three banks failed. Silicon, Conman, Valley Bank, uh, Signature Bank, and First Republic. Markets were crashing. Gold was spiking. Three banks. Now you're going to see 30, 40, 50, 60, maybe 100 banks because most of these loans in the office buildings are small and medium-siz banks. They don't have the dough to cover the losses. No one's talking about it. No one. Well, Gerald, this has been a fantastic conversation as always. Uh, a lot to be worried about, but it's better to be aware of all these dangers than to stick our head in the sand and pretend everything's going to be okay. So, always appreciate your insight. Um, tell us about the Trends Journal and where people can find that. Let's go to trendsjournal.com. trendsjournal.com. It's the grand total of two $259 a week, nothing. and over 200 pages on average. Excuse me. We don't only talk about geopolitics and economics, high-tech science, AI, whole sections, technocracy, you know, we we health, we bring special, we're covering the world. We're giving people everything they can to help them prepare, prevail, and prosper. As I said, we we we said this is what they're saying, you know, all over the world. This is our analysis. This is our forecast. There's no and no advertisements. Not one advert. We won't nobody tells us what to do. Well, I will put a link in the description below. People can use the coupon code commodity to get 10% off that already very cheap price as you mentioned. So, be sure to do that and of course pick up one of those t-shirts. Those those are great. Thank you so much, Gerald. Always appreciate you coming on the show. Well, thank you. Yeah, if you you put in your link, it's the grand total of about $2.50 a week, like pennies a day. Thank you for joining us today. Our sponsor, Ark Silver Gold. Osmium has some of the best prices out there. They are appearing on screen right now. To take advantage, reach out to owner Ian Everard today at 3072649441 or by email at ianarchsg.com. And make sure to tell him that Commodity Culture sent you. 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Gold's Surge to $10K as World 'On Verge of NUCLEAR Annihilation': Gerald Celente
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Hello everybody and welcome into commodity culture where we break down commodities markets, sound money principles and geopolitics all with the goal of making you a better investor in the commodities sector. My name is Jesse Day and on this episode I'm thrilled to welcome Gerald Cente to the program. A worldrenowned trend forecaster with an over 40-year track record of identifying, tracking, and forecasting trends. He is a best-selling author and the publisher of the trends journal. Gerald warns that while he believes geopolitical uncertainty and an increase in wars worldwide will push gold to $10,000 an ounce, the trade-off is that we could be standing on the precipice of nuclear annihilation. As the leaders calling the shots have completely lost their minds and are willing to sacrifice anything, including their own people, to destroy their enemies. We dive into the Russia Ukraine conflict, the Israel Palestine war, the new wars brewing in Venezuela and Iran, and so much more. So strap yourselves in for my conversation with Gerald Cente. Gerald Cente, great to have you back on Commodity Culture. Global conflict seems to be rising on all fronts, and I think to nobody's surprise, the US is being involved in all major wars being waged. I want to start with Trump's U-turn from trying to get a peace deal done between Russia and Ukraine to now claiming Ukraine can not only win the war, but they can take back all of their conquered territory. And the US now looking like they will likely provide long range Tomahawk missiles and even potentially help Ukraine identify good targets to strike in Russian territory. A lot of military experts coming out and saying the missiles themselves will have to be launched by US operatives as well. Why do you think this change of stance has occurred and what would the implications be of Russia of Ukraine striking Russia with US backing? The why is a you know I've been at this for 45 years. I have best-selling books trends 2000 international bestseller trend tracking far better than mega trends time magazine publish a weekly trends journal magazine we do top trends every year. This is the first year one of our top trends was wild card because another one was the Trump card. Hey, you elect me, I'm going to end that Ukraine war 24 hours. All right. All right. Hey. Hey, I got elected now. That war is going to end before I get into office. All right. All right. Hey, how about that little arrogant little clown boy Kellogg? Oh, yeah. the uh the US guy, you know, the ad the the envoy guy over there. Yeah. January, we're going to end that Ukraine war in a 100 days. And now this fat mouth Kellogg Frosted Flake is spewing out the crap about how Ukraine is going to become the winner of the war. You're asking me why. Why do you ask a freak that bullshits his way into office why? Why is he changing his mind? Because he's a he's full of That's why. You got it. Look at all the tariffs. This way, that way, this way, that way, this way, that way. Oh, now we're going to go after Venezuela. I forgot. Oh, we got to stop that drug dealing. Hey, wait a minute. You tried to overthrow the government when you were president back in 2019 and 2020. You brought in that little guyo guy. Remember that little clown boy of nothing? Remember that little jerk off over there? Oh, and how much of Europe supported Trump's to overthrow the Maduro government? Oh, it was nothing about drugs back then. You think the United States would invaded Iraq, Syria, and Libya if their major export was broccoli? It's all about oil. You're asking why is he changing his mind? You don't ask a lying, narcissistic piece of why. And it ain't only him. How about the little Mertz boy over there next to uh Germany that killed over 25 million Russians in Operation Barbar Roa in World War II. Germany. third largest economy in the world, biggest in Europe. Hey, you're in a recession for two years, but we're going to build our military because we have to stop the Russians. So, we're going to get trillion dollars in debt to build up our military. H mers a little black rock guy, right? Oh, I forgot. Yeah. Where's the outrage? How about that little Gatsson Mcron with a peck of the size of a pencil if he has one at all? Oh, we may put troops over there in Ukraine. We got to stop those Russians. Oh, the Germans. Didn't you like World War I? No, I like World War II better. Yeah, let's give them World War II. Look at the crap they're selling about. We got to stop the Russians because they're going to invade Europe. You got crazy people, maniacs. Oh, I forgot Netanyahu. Oh, I forgot that little boy star over there in in the UK. How about an FU ck UK? Huh? It's a freak show and the freaks are running the show and the story. You don't ask why a murderer is a murderer, a thief is a thief, a rapist is a rapist. They're evilminded people, narcissistic pieces of End the story. The sponsor of today's episode is Ark Silver Gold Osmium. Owner Ian Everard is praised even by his competitors as one of the most honest and level-headed bullion dealers in the United States. They have some great prices. You can see some of them displayed right now on screen. Take advantage of these specials today by reaching out to Ian at 3072649441 or by email at ianarchsg.com. Make sure to tell them of course that commodity culture sent you. And now back to the interview. Are we in a situation now where the political rulers uh because the the thing that comes closest to mind to me is a cacistocracy essentially a rule by the worst of the worst which is seems like it's been spreading globally in your you've had a very long experience in politics and speaking to these people and dealing with these people. Is it worse than you've ever seen now? Or is this type of behavior from from politicians? This type of reckless evil behavior just part for the course. Yep. What's your favorite war? You like the Pelpeneisian War. Maybe you like the 100red-year war. Hey, wasn't the War of Roses lovely? What's your favorite crusade? Well, I like the eighth better than the third. It's been going on forever. It's been going on forever, but now this is very serious. You know, once upon a time, there was this cat by the name of Einstein. Knew a thing or two about the atomic bomb. They asked him, "What kind of weapons will be used to fight the third world war?" He said, "I don't know, but they'll be using sticks and stones to fight the fourth. That's where we're at. I had a peace rally and I I launched a movement called Occupy Peace. We just had one last week. Judge Npalitano, Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria, U. Roger Waters did a streaming, did a song about it. Um, uh, Dennis Cassinich, former congressman, guy ran for, uh, president. Load of people. Smallest turnout in 11 years. top PR firm sent out thousands of emails uh uh you know press releases international, national and local zero coverage and the people that showed up they were like the average age is probably 60 years old. No young people. Peace is a dirty word. No this America no peace. No, no, no. Shut the hell up. You're not allowed to talk about peace. You're not allowed to be on the mainstream media. Get the hell out of here. We are on the verge of nuclear annihilation. Israel is going to ramp up the war. It's going to be bombs away over Iran. And you about know about the Samson option. Israel says if they lose, they go nuclear. They got between 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. Oh, and you don't have to be good at math to figure this out. Look at the 91 million Iranians versus 7 million Israelis. And the Iranians are very advanced scientifically, technologically, militarily. You go to war against Iran, they're going to wipe out Israel, but Israel is going to go nuclear. And the United States is going to join them. And all this money that they're spending all of Europe with their GDP now 5% of their GDP going going to the military-industrial complex. Yeah, it's a waste of money. It's a waste of these tanks are going to be useless. It's all new millennium warfare here. New Millennium Warfare I wrote about in my book Tren 2000 in 1997. I was brought down to the um Virginia Military Institute, VMI, to talk about new millennium warfare back in 2000. I'm saying all of this stuff, these planes, the tanks, the ships, this is useless stuff in the new millennium. Oh, there were no they weren't talking about drones back then. It's a whole different warfare. And there's no Hey, where are all the Hey, where all you Quakers? Would you die in an earthquake? How come you're not out there for peace? Where are all these religions? Where all you you priests? Are you always scooting around little boys? I forgot. Yeah. Yeah. And where where's the pope over there? Well, I got my uh white socks hat on, you know, but I won't go to I won't go to Well, I don't like what's going on there. Why don't you go there and try to stop it? Where are these religions? Where are they? They're gutless little clowns all across the planet. That's where they are. Because if the people stood up and fought for we the people instead of you the politicians, the whole game would change. All we are are it's not we the people, it's we the puppets. All right. Well, speaking of trying to stop the genocide, the UN United Nations Commission has officially declared Israel's actions in a in Gaza to be a genocide. But as you pointed out in a recent episode of the edition of the trends journal, this is basically meaningless because it's just being ignored. There's no enforcement structure in place to actually take action to stop a genocide from happening. So what what can they do? The majority of delegates walked out in protest when BB recently gave a speech at the UN, but that does not affect him at all. He he doesn't care about that, right? So, how how can we actually hold people accountable like Netanyahu and and stop these genocides if if the UN is just saying it's a genocide. America and Israel completely ignore it. How does that ever get solved? The only way it can get solved is if the people unite and say stop. End of story here. Again, I've been at this a lot of years and as you know, I I was the assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate. I have a picture of me and Ronald Reagan when I put on a brunch when I was 30 years old for for uh 16 of our board of directors went with the prince of Norway major that I' I've been with you I've been on the other side I know the facts once upon a time there was a thing called the Berlin wall how come it came down because the people went out and more people came and they didn't leave day after day week after week more and more people came and they didn't leave and they outnumbered the little boys in their drag costumes with guns by about 20,000 to one. They put down their guns, took off their costumes, and the wall came down. Look what's going on in Israel. Week after week, major protests doesn't do anything. You got to protest and not leave. If we here America country of 300 what 47 million people let's say 10 million 10 million went to Washington DC and closed down the place and said stop these wars stop these wars if they flooded the streets we're not leaving it would end like that it would end like that they're gutless Again, these when I put on these rallies, they cost me a lot of money. This last one cost me over $20,000 to do, little support, no press coverage. The only way it will happen is if we the people unite. And when I talk about we the people about three weeks ago I took out the domain name we the people's party us and then a week ago I took out the domain name we the people's party.world. Those domains should have been gone when the internet revolution began back in the 1990s. That shows you how we the people don't count. and how we the people don't unite. It's as simple as that. If we the people rather Hey, remember they used to call politicians public servants? No, no, no. You're the servant. You're a plantation worker of slave landing. Well, it seems like one of the ways that the Trump administration is trying to crack down at home and continue this divide between left and right is what he calls I believe he said exactly a war an enemy from within. So there was this recent big all the military brass got together Pete Hegathth giving them this big speech saying how we're going to we're going to become all about war again which was found very interesting. Now, I I want to read a quote from President Trump. He gave a speech at the meeting as well. He said, "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control." So, of course, people are looking at this and saying he's basically looking to impose some sort of martial law, start deploying troops all around America. supporters say, "Well, these are dangerous cities. We need somebody to come in and clean up because the the governors, the mayors, the the political class aren't lifting a finger." What are your thoughts on this whole this whole event and this thought of fighting the enemy within? It's again, look at the facts. It's pure censorship. You had that Bondi the the attorney general saying it, you know, hate speech. You're not allowed to have hate speech. I can't hate somebody for slaughtering innocent people. No, it's it's again it's put it all together. Once upon a time, there was this guy named Mussolini, fascism. What did Trump just do with Intel? The United States just took 10% of the company and now he's talking about doing more with other companies. Not my definition, Mussolini's. And going back to the censorship, the merger of state and corporate powers is fascism. It's a fascist country. Go back to Trump when he punished all these university students and universities for coming out against the genocide right in front of everybody's eyes. Hate speech. Again, it's in your trends journal. One article after another. Yeah, there's one over here that um just give you an example. Car plans to keep going after media. The FCC chair has threatened TV licenses over what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts. All right. Oh, wait a minute. You don't like liberal? No. No, I don't like liberal. I'm gonna stop it. Hey. Hey, fat mouth. Who the hell are you to say who should say what? I got to swallow your Yes. Yes. You be You're still in kindergarten. You swallow my All right. Right in front of everybody's eyes. Right here. right here. Yeah. You ready for this? Narrative war pits Pentagon against press. This is New York Times 9:25 this year, September 25th. Imagine for a moment that the defense department's new demand for quote a pledge from Pentagon reporters a commitment not to publish even unclassified information except what press officers approve. All right, Mussolini, the country's gone to It's a hole in every different way. The roads are rotted. The bridges are collapsing. Amtrak. How about AMC crap? I'm 4 and a half hours from Canada where I am in Kingston, New York. 4 and a half hours. You take AMC crap 10 hours to get to Montreal. 10 hours when I could drive there in four and a half subways in New York and night in Kolkata. But we're gonna spend a trillion dollars for the military-industrial complex. All right. When all else fails, they take you to war. The economies are failing. Hey, what about gold prices? Well, who cares about what gold prices are? Hey, but you look, it's gone up 45% this year. Not a word. Not a word. Go to CNBC. Go to Wall Street Journal. Go to the New York Times. One article in the Financial Times over like a week and a half. One one major article. No major articles in any of the magazines, in any of the newspapers rather, about why gold prices are spiking. Gold prices are spiking because of the fear of geopolitical insecurity and socioeconomic distress. period. Paragraph up 45% this year. Shut your mouth. Don't talk about it because we don't want the people to know how bad things are. So, keep investing in that stock market. The Trends Journal has been predicting this rise in gold for some time now. Um, I wonder what your thoughts are in terms of how early we are in this gold bull market. Obviously, none of us want to see further geopolitical chaos or war escalation, but it looks like those things are all on the table. Do you expect gold to continue to climb here? And and how long and how far do you think gold could go? Gold could go to $10,000 an ounce. And but you got you have to put all this stuff together. Again, as we're speaking now, it's $3,840. the economy. The numbers just came out today on um new hirings totaled 204,939 so far in 2025. This is according to challenger gray and Christmas from the same period a year ago. The lowest level since 2009. 2009, the height of the Great Recession. That's where job numbers are. All right. They're going to lower interest rates. The lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls. The deeper the dollar falls, the higher gold prices go. Gold is dollar-based. So now, as the other currencies go up, it's cheaper to buy gold in other countries. And that's what's going to happen. They're going to keep lowering interest rates. The death of the dollar is before us. But again, as I said, wild card orwell could not have come up with a better name than stable coins. All right. All the banks are going to go CBDC. Oh, what? They just came out last week that the uh the international debt level is about $340 trillion. How you going to get rid of it there? No way. When you look at the United States debt level, no, it's not 37 trillion. When you put Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all the other government expenses, it's well over a hundred trillion. We got a new coin. They're going to come out with a digital coin. As we're speaking again, we call things the way they are, not the way we want them to be. We've been very bullish on Bitcoin, particularly when Trump got elected. This is the guy that's made fun of Bitcoin when he wasn't president back in 20121 and 20 calling it a bunch of crap. How terrible it is killing the dollar. Hey, but now my family's in it. Shut the hell up, Cente. Hey, I Witoff and Jerkoff and and and and Lutnik and this guy, the guys that are in the cabinet, their kids are in it. All right, shut the hell up. Oh, I got a hund00 million dollars from the crypto gang when I ran for president. All right. Oh, they gave me tens of millions of dollars when I got inaugurated. And now, as was speaking again, last week, crypto is down to like $109,000 a coin. $109,000 for something invented with nothing behind it. And now it's up, as we're speaking, 118,000. The gangs in charge. They're going to go from dirty cash to digital trash. It's going to happen. And the reason they're also going that they're going to say this digital coin is worth way more than our debt level. So, we just got wiped out our debt level. And they want digital because they know every penny you spent, where you spent it, what you spent it on, so they could get their tax money. Most important. So that's where we see it going. So are you turning more bearish at Bitcoin at this point in time now that the administration has gotten so heavily involved? Do you think that involvement could kind of remove one of the main aspects of Bitcoin that so many people were so bullish on which was the fact that governments it kind of bypassed the government. Now it seems the government's directly involved. Does that change things in your view? No. We we see going up again. the gang is in in in investing in it. Look at Again, you can't make this crap up. You just saw this this article that see I have it over here about um Trump's uh son-in-law Jared Kushner doing a deal in um in uh with Saudi Arabia. $55 billion deal. 55 billion. Oh, and Trump opening up Trump Towers all throughout all throughout the Middle East. All they're interested in is making money. Bottom line, they're going to do everything they can to make as much money as they can. Yep. And uh it's not going to stop. Trump's b This is Financial Times. Trump's businesses expanded booming Gulf real estate with $1 billion Red Sea deal. The project, the Trump Organization's second planned tower in Jada, will include offices, high-end apartments and town houses. Um the Trump Organization has also licensed its name to DAR Global to Project to projects in Dubai, Oman, and Qatar. Okay. All right. All right. Right in front of your eyes. Right in front of your eyes. The president doing this kind of crap. Hey, my sons are doing it. Shut the hell up. You know, by the way, I had lunch with um Trump's brother, Robert, back in um see there's another one here. Hold it. Uh here we go. Is this it? No. I had I had lunch with his brother Robert back in uh 2017 when Trump was president. The brother went on to tell me he had a restaurant over here in WY which is across the river from Mayhem. He went on to tell me that when the father died, I think it was like 2002 their father died that the father left the family over a half a billion dollars worth of real estate. So Trump is nothing more than a spoiled daddy's boy and it's just going to keep going on and on. They're going to do everything they can to um keep pumping up the crypto markets and the economy. So yeah, Trump Trump to send more troops into US cities. I mean this is unbelievable. And these guys with their masks on, these ICE guys. I mean, is what is this? The SS? No, the Slovak. I forgot. Yeah, which one? I wonder what your thoughts are on the bricks at this point in time and the moves they're making. We recently saw Russia and China sign anou regarding natural gas flows through this upcoming power of Siberia 2 pipeline. They're also increasing natural gas flows through Power Siberia 1. Of course, that's gas that could have been going to Europe, which desperately needs it, but has sanctioned Russian energy. Um, we're also seeing the Shanghai gold exchange. There's a lot of talk about them opening vaults in BRICS member countries and then starting to use gold more and more as a as a way to settle trades. And it seems like that BRICS alliance is only strengthening as the US seems to be pushing its allies away. What are your thoughts on on the the bricks versus the West at this point in time? The bricks are going to be the winner. You guys go by the numbers. What do you got? 1.4 billion people living in China, 1.4 billion in India. They had enough of the United States geopolitical and socioeconomic agy. They're finished. America's become the country that our founding fathers fought against, Great Britain. War, war, war, war, war. And again, go back all the wars where the sun never sets on the British Empire. After World War I, the pound died. The dollar became the most important currency. And now the United States is war war. The dollar is going to die. It's the death of the dollar's on the way. And again, going back to digital, now there's talk about digital gold, right? they go digital gold, that could wipe out a lot of the cryptos because now you have a crypto backed by gold. We're very positive on the gold future. Very. And again saddle again in in my book trend tracking far better than mega trends time magazine I wrote about how I first started buying gold in 1978 when the Iranian conflict broke out and they taught us to hate the Iranians without 99.9999% of the Americans knowing how the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosade in 1953 because democratically elected government of Iran because he had the nerve to say, "No, that oil does not belong to Anglo Iranian oil, better known today as BP or Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobile. This oil is the Iranian people's oil." No, it's not. No, it's not. And they overthrew the guy and they brought in the Savak, the secret police that made the SS look good. So, when the rally started to happen against the shop back in the 70s, late 70s, that's when I started buying gold. My first buy of gold was $163 an ounce. The times now are worse than that. The way gold is spiking now is beyond. Again, pick up any of the major media. Not a word. Not a word about gold's prices spiking. Let's just talk about AI. Just talk about AI. Do you have any thoughts on silver here? Because as gold uh continues to climb to new all-time highs basically every day, silver is also having its own massive breakout up around 60% year-to date, outperforming gold, which is up around 45% and now approaching previous all-time highs at least in nominal terms when you adjust for inflation. Of course, we would need triple digits. Are you watching the silver market right now? And what are your thoughts on the trajectory of that metal? Oh, absolutely. Very positive on silver, too. Precious metals of the future again. Oh, by the way, I found the article about Trump's son-in-law again about the crime syndicate. You ready? Electronic arts goes private for $55 billion in records shattering leveraged buyout. Video game maker Electronic Arts is being taken private by a Saudibbacked consortium led by Jared Kushner and Silverlake in a $55 billion deal that ranks as the biggest ever leverage buyout. Jared Kushner, you mean Trump's son-in-law? Saudi Arabia? Well, I mentioned before about Qatar, Oman, UAE, right? This is why the Arab nations have not united to stop the Gaza genocide. Let's go back to 1973, the Amipa war, the Arab nations united and cut off oil going into Europe and the United States. Brent crude quadrupled in price. Not now. Now actually they even you saw OPEC plus just came out. They putting more oil in. As we're speaking now what bread cruds around $64 a barrel. They're putting more more supply when demand is going down. That's how much they need the money. That's how bad it is. And again, you're seeing what's going on over here. This is right in front of everybody's eye. Oh, Jared Kushner. Oh, when Netanyahu used to come to America, he used to stay at the Kushner's family's house. Oh, yeah. That Jared Kushner. That Jared Kushner we quote in the Trends Journal back in March of 2024. 2024. The land in Gaza is quote very valuable waterfront property and the Palestinians should be moved into the NGV desert. Oh, that's Jared Kushner. Yeah. So, I wonder all these wars that America seems to be getting involved in. We of course have Russia Ukraine, which it now looks like they're going to at least partially get involved in. Um, Venezuela, as you mentioned, they bombed a couple of boats they claim were trafficking drugs. I don't think that story quite adds up. And now there's talk of them striking inside Venezuelan territory itself. Um, of course, Israel and the US versus Iran is another potential conflict that could grow bigger. We saw that short war um with with both the US and Iran uh and Israel striking Iran and and there's a lot of talk about that being rekindled. Again, you say don't ask why cuz these people are just sick, but what is the purpose of the US getting involved on so many fronts? Is this kind of the last gasp of a dying US hegemony that is lashing out to try and keep itself relevant? Is this a show of strength? Well, what is this? Again, it's been going on. You know, this one of my sayings is when all else fails, they take you to war. Go back. Let's the Israel war. Let's go back to 19, excuse me, 2023, January. Netanyahu wins the election in December 2022, late December. There were protests going on. These are facts. Anybody could look them up. There were protests going on in Israel week after week, week after month, month after month against Netanyahu's judicial reform act that basically said, "We're doing away with the court system, and I'm in charge. This way, I don't have to go to court for the crimes that they say have been committed against them." 39 weeks of protests were going on. Not my language, the language of Isaac Herszog, the president of Israel. In 2023, there's a civil war going on in Israel. October 7th, Hamas attacks. Everybody forgot about it. And again, we only write the facts. Three days after the attack, it was reported that the United States and Egypt had warned Israel that the attack was coming. Not my language. Again, as trend forecasts is what we do is we follow the world. We subscribe to the Israeli newspaper. We read the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Wet. Oh, we also read IRNA, ISNA, uh, Press TV, Tran Times. We want to hear what the Iranians have to say. We go to Arab news. We go to al the Arabs have to say, we go to European news. They have to say. So, we look at all the information. Haha. That's then reported. The Netanyahu government knew this attack was going to come. They let it happen. When all else fails, they take it to war. this history today. See the thing up there? What was going on in 1941? Well, the United States was in a deep depression. United States freezes Japanese assets on July 24th. Excuse me, is 1941. On July 26th, 1941, President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. You know why? Because in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. Wait a minute. Number one, what the hell do I care as an American? What's going on with Japan and French Indo-China? What the hell are the French doing in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia? And you're calling it French Indochina? No, we're also in Algeria, Morocco, for Africa. We're stealing and robbing, pillaging, anything we want. We'll call it French Indo-China. Oh, French Foreign Legion. I forgot. Okay, you ready? Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. Dutch East Indies. What the hell are the Dutch doing in Indonesia and you're calling it Dutch East Indies? We're doing the same thing that the British are doing and which son never sets on the British Empire and we're doing what the English are doing where and and by the way I'm sick and tired of hearing this word king. If they were Italian you'd call him a mafia murderous pieces of scum. Anyway, swung into action. The result, Japan lost access to three4s of its overseas trade. You ready? And 88% of its imported oil. They only import 100%. Now wait a minute. You just cut off all their trade and this that's their exporting country and you cut off all their oil. Can't understand why they bomb Pearl Harbor. Can't figure it out. They don't tell you this. They don't teach you this. When all else fails, they take you to war. The Great Depression was going on. Before this happened, 80% of the American people were against getting involved in what was going on in Europe. Let's go back to the.com bust, which we forecast in the trends journal when it was a quarterly right here.com. This we said it would bust by the second quarter 2000. We wrote, "Do overload will short circuit high expectations for huge profits in internet commerce, entertainment, and a wide array of dotcom services. Following the holiday season, many of today's high-flying internet stocks, the hottest IPOs, the newly emerging IPO wannabes will become their descent from their overvalued heights." We said it would crash by the second quarter of 2000, which it did. And what happened? The NASDAQ lost 80% of its value. That was March. It crashed of 20 of the year 2000. Oh, what followed that? 911. Everybody forgot about the.com bust and they created the fake housing market and the derivative scheme. All right. The same thing is going to happen. They're going to take us to war and the people will unite. There'll be a false flag event like a like a kind of like a bombing of Pearl Harbor kind of thing but different where the people will unite against it. 90% of the American people swallow the crap coming out of little Georgie Bush's mouth after 9/11. We're going to get that guy Osama bin Laden. Get him alive. The longest war in American history. trillions of dollars of our money wasted and hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered in Afghanistan. 90% of the people swallowed this crap. Same things are going to happen again if we the people don't unite. And they're not. It's not going to happen. We're not going to unite. I think one of the biggest barriers that people face your average everyday person on the street is they can't grasp how evil their political leaders are. These are people that are usually narcissists at best and bloodthirsty psychopaths at worst who actually enjoy inflicting death and suffering. People cannot wrap their heads around the fact that these people who are supposed to be taking care of them and looking out for them and be servants of the public are actually monsters. I think that's the main barrier to entry that people have. And again, it's it's once upon a time there was this guy by the name of Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, supreme command of the Allied forces in World War II and two-term president. He warns the American people that the military-industrial complex is robbing the nation of the genius of the scientists, sweat of the labors and the futures of children. It's also the Eisenhower. He was a president like I think Columbia univers Yeah, it was Columbia University. They wanted him to run for president. He didn't really want to. You could Google it up. He says any man seeking the office of president is either an egoomaniac or crazy. So it's exactly what you said. Well, before I let you go, Gerald, my final question is you mentioned that the trends journal called the dot bust. I wonder if you're seeing similar signs now in these tech stocks. Um, and this overvalued AI, the MAG 7 obviously continues to climb. The three major indices, uh, the the Dow Jones, the S&P, and the Nasdaq continue to climb higher, grind higher. It's a little bit slower now, but it's still moving upwards. Um, do you think we're going to see some moment where we get a similar correction that that 50 to 80% crash? Do you foresee something like that happening up ahead? Or are we in a different era where the government and and the Fed and you know these forces behind the scenes are getting so involved that at all costs they're going to try to keep the stock market afloat. At all cost they're going to keep the stock market aloat and if it crashes they'll do everything to pump it back up again. Let's go back and I'll go back to the dot in a second. It's a crime syndicate. They're murderers and thieves. We talked about the murder of the war. Let's talk about the thieves. What happened with the panic of08? The domain, by the way, that I took out in 2007. The Federal Reserve pumped in 29 trillion with a T dollars to bail out the banks. That's according to the Levian student Bart College. It's a crime syndicate. Let's go back to the.com bus. Go back to your trends journal. February January 28th of this year. Bus 2.0. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. AI became public just three years ago. It's an infant. You don't invest all your dough in the infancy of the new whether it's high-tech heavy industry. You don't invest all your money in the first baby born. And that's what they've done. Cover our magazine on February 5th of this year. Do com Bus 2.0. Once upon a time, another slime ball is president. This is a t-shirt that I did back in 1992 when Bill Clinton was running for president. Beware of SL. Oh, by the way, here's another t-shirt you could get by going to Trends Journal. Just to show you the way I feel about politicians. We feel the same way. That's for sure. All right. I'll make sure to put a link below so people can can purchase those shirts. So, Bill Clinton brought brought China into the World Trade Organization. He also gave us NAFTA. Get these manufacturing jobs out of America. You can make more money and give it back to me. Now, I'm worth $130 million. A little nobody from our hand saw. $130 million now. Anyway, he brings China into the World Trade Organization. They officially came in two weeks after 9/11. Let's go back to 2000. And again, this has to do with 10% of Chinese 18y olds went to college back then. Now, almost 70%. 70% of the country, 1.4 billion verse 347 million in America. Country is dumbing down. By the way, young people are totally AI and high-tech addicted. China's investing very heavily in the AI market. It's the future. Again, like it, don't like it, it's what is. And what's going to happen, you already saw it with Deep Seek. It didn't cost them $100 million to do what they did. It only cost them six million. Oh, and we don't need these big ships. who need smaller ones. Get Nvidia out of China. We're developing our own. Same thing with India. There's going to be a.com bust. They've way over in. Look at the PE ratio. It's way it's way out of line. There's going to be a.com bust. And again, when all those fails, they're going to take us to war. They'll get the people's mind off it. And again, the Fed will do what they did before. I thought the markets would crash in 2012. All right, I was wrong. They did not teach me about zero interest rate policy or a thing called quantitative easing in economics 101 or graduate school. They'll make up any crap they want. Again, digital coin, CBD, they're going to do everything they can to artificially prop this up. It's going down. It's going to crash. No one. No one anywhere. Any here, Google it up. Go to Castle Systems. Look up the office uh occupancy rate. My looked it up uh couple of days ago. 54%. What's the office vacancy rate? Nobody in the buildings. It was 11% before the COVID war and now it's 20%. There's going to there's going to be failures. They're not going to be able to pay the on these office buildings. All there's going to be a collapse. Banks are not going to be able to cover the loans. Again, I thought things would crash when they locked down the world. I didn't know they'd bring interest rates down to zero, keep them negative in Europe, and and and pump in countless trillions of dollars of fake money back by nothing and print it on nothing. It's all coming to an end now. No one's talking about the office building bust. Go back to 2023, not ancient history. Three banks failed. Silicon, Conman, Valley Bank, uh, Signature Bank, and First Republic. Markets were crashing. Gold was spiking. Three banks. Now you're going to see 30, 40, 50, 60, maybe 100 banks because most of these loans in the office buildings are small and medium-siz banks. They don't have the dough to cover the losses. No one's talking about it. No one. Well, Gerald, this has been a fantastic conversation as always. Uh, a lot to be worried about, but it's better to be aware of all these dangers than to stick our head in the sand and pretend everything's going to be okay. So, always appreciate your insight. Um, tell us about the Trends Journal and where people can find that. Let's go to trendsjournal.com. trendsjournal.com. It's the grand total of two $259 a week, nothing. and over 200 pages on average. Excuse me. We don't only talk about geopolitics and economics, high-tech science, AI, whole sections, technocracy, you know, we we health, we bring special, we're covering the world. We're giving people everything they can to help them prepare, prevail, and prosper. As I said, we we we said this is what they're saying, you know, all over the world. This is our analysis. This is our forecast. There's no and no advertisements. Not one advert. We won't nobody tells us what to do. Well, I will put a link in the description below. People can use the coupon code commodity to get 10% off that already very cheap price as you mentioned. So, be sure to do that and of course pick up one of those t-shirts. Those those are great. Thank you so much, Gerald. Always appreciate you coming on the show. Well, thank you. Yeah, if you you put in your link, it's the grand total of about $2.50 a week, like pennies a day. Thank you for joining us today. Our sponsor, Ark Silver Gold. Osmium has some of the best prices out there. They are appearing on screen right now. To take advantage, reach out to owner Ian Everard today at 3072649441 or by email at ianarchsg.com. And make sure to tell him that Commodity Culture sent you. 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