Gerald Celente advarer

“If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.”

While Celente is not a financial advisor, per se, he is an expert at recognizing trends. As the founder of Trends Research Institute, Celente has made predictions that would make Nostradamus blush like a teenage girl. 

Here's a quick roundup of some of his most prescient predictions:

• 1987 Stock Market Crash (Jan. 1987)
• Rise of Social Networking (1993)
• "Occupy Wall Street" (1997)
• Dot-com Bust (1999)
• Gold Bull Run to Begin (2001)
• Real Estate Peak, Decline (2004)
• Total Financial Meltdown (2007)
• Global spread of rebellions (2010)

The list goes on and on...

So, what does Celente see in his crystal ball today?

Here are some of his increasingly dire predictions for the near future (from DisInfo):

• Economic Martial Law: Given the current economic and geopolitical conditions, the central banks and world governments already have plans in place to declare economic martial law... with the possibility of military martial law to follow.

• Battlefield America: With a stroke of the presidential pen, language was removed from an earlier version of the National Defense Authorization Act granting the president authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Citizens, welcome to “Battlefield America.”

• Technocrat Takeover: “Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Technocrat!” A pair of lightning-quick financial coup d’états in Greece and Italy have installed two unelected figures as head of state. No one yet in the mainstream media is calling this merger of state and corporate powers by its proper name — fascism — nor are they calling these “technocrats” by their proper name: bankers. Can a rudderless ship be saved because a technocrat is at the helm?

• Safe Havens: As the signs of imminent economic and social collapse become more pronounced, legions of New Millennium survivalists are (or will be) thinking about looking for methods to escape the resulting turmoil. Those “on trend” have already taken measure to implement Gerald Celente’s 3 G’s: Gold, Guns, and a Getaway plan. Where to go? What to do? Top Trends 2012 will guide the way.

• Big Brother Internet: The coming year will be the beginning of the end of Internet Freedom, a battle between the governments and the people. Governments will propose legislation for a new “authentication technology,” requiring Internet users to present the equivalent of a driver’s license and/or bill of health to navigate cyberspace. For the general population, this will represent yet another curtailing of freedom and a new level of governmental control.