➡ Gerald Celente discusses various trends and news, emphasizing the importance of subscribing to the Trends Journal for insights. He criticizes the media’s control by a few companies and the rigged market system. He also discusses the rise of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ due to optimism about the Iran war resolution, and the potential for clean energy investments. Lastly, he criticizes the tax benefits received by large corporations and the shrinking middle class.
➡ Luxury stocks have taken a hit due to conflicts in the Middle East, causing a drop in shares. Big companies continue to grow, with several billion-dollar deals being closed. There’s ongoing political tension, with figures like J.D. Vance and Pope Leo clashing over issues like war and morality. Despite economic pressures and low consumer confidence, there’s optimism about a potential end to the Iran war.

Hello, everybody. This is Gerald Celente, and it’s Thursday, April 16, 2026. Yep. And here are some of today’s trends in the news. And remember, the trend is your friend. Don’t teach it at Oxford. Don’t teach it at Cambridge. Yep. We’re the only ones giving it to you. That’s selling books, Trends 2000, trend tracking far better than megatrends, Trends Journal, Weekly Magazine. If you want to read history before it happens, subscribe to the Trends Journal. Journalism’s dead. Go to trendsjournal.com. Support us. We’re supporting you. The more subscribers we have, the more we can do.

And to make it a million percent clear, the big zone everything. And we’re going to get into that more when we look at the markets. Who’s behind it and what’s going on? Go back to 1983. Ain’t that long ago, not from a cat that’s born in 1946. 50 companies control 90% of the media. Now, five is six control 90%. Yeah. And again, without going into the bullshit of CNN and CBS with the Zionist pro Barry Weiss and the Ellison Zionists, you’re getting a Fox News. So anyway, it’s just fucking bullshit. We’re giving everything we can.

So you support us because we’re supporting you on to the markets. This is a lingo from CBS, CNBC, excuse me. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ composite rose to a fresh all-time high on Thursday, adding to their strong gains this week on optimism for a possible resolution to the Iran war. How many fucking times have you heard this shit? How many fucking times have you heard this shit? Go back again. We have all the quotes spewing out of Trump’s Trump shit. Hey, it was over. It was over. It was over. It was over.

I’ll give you 48 hours, right? I’ll give you 40. I’ll give you another week. I’ll give you another 10 days. I’ll give you another two weeks. The fucking thing is rigged. And again, by the facts, you got three companies, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, own what? 25% of the S&P 500. And when you put the companies they own into it and the money they get from it, that 88% of the value. Again, 1% owns 54% of the markets. You put the 10% with the 1%. They got 93%, which means that as plantation workers of slave land here, the 90% got a lousy 7%.

The fucking thing is rigged. Total fucking bullshit. But that’s the way it is. So let’s see the S&P went up 0.26%. NASDAQ was up 30, 0.36%. The Dow is up 115 points. Here’s the language. Stocks received a bump high a Thursday. If the President Donald Trump confirmed he spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yau. He spoke with him? What, fucking Trump shit back and forth? Swallow the shit. Be a good guy. Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire. It began now, 5 p.m. Eastern time. All right? Israel halting its attacks on Lebanon has been a key condition for U.S.-Iran negotiations starting.

The Speaker of Iran’s parliament has said, you got it. And Israel is not going to stop attacking Iran in Lebanon, excuse me. Maybe they’ll do it for a couple of days, keep stealing land, killing people. For the U.S. and Iran, the next round of in-person talks may occur. Probably, maybe next weekend, Trump said. You know what that is? Warning, warning, bullshit alert. Trump shit alert. Trump shit alert. That he said earlier this week, the Iran war is very close to over. How many fucking times we heard this shit? So anyway, Brent crude, and I guess it’s not over, it went up three bucks.

It’s back $98 a barrel. Go back to the beginning of the year. It’s up about $40 a barrel. All right? Bitcoin trading at 75K range, up 10K from its low recently, was still bullish on it. Gold’s flat, but still high, $4,789. So it was down 56 cents, still high, $78. And 30 cents. India pushes clean energy. Yep. What did we tell you? But it’s still costing them. They’ve got big gaps, but they’re going into it. On-trend-penor opportunities. This war is going to push a clean energy movement. So rather than investing in all these AI companies, how about investing in these clean energy companies? This is the future.

We’ve been writing about it in your trends journal. We have the companies, the ones that you might want to look at. We don’t tell you what to do. It’s the future. Eurozone facing economic headwinds. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Oh, that’s from the Wall Street Journal today. The energy price shock from Iran war is landing between the European Central Bank’s baseline and adverse scenarios. Yep. You got it. The markets going up are total, total. That was bullshit. You got it. Yeah. This is an article from today’s New York Times.

Debt alarms as countries respond to energy crisis. You got it. Debt alarms. They’re all going deeper in debt. They ain’t got the dough to pay for it. Hey, we come up with a digital coin. All right. All right. You’re going to come up with some. You got it. And again, we remain very bullish on gold and silver. This is an article from today’s financial times. By the way, I find that a very good newspaper to go to. World counts the cost of damage to Middle East oil and gas industries. The six week long wars struck the world’s most energy rich regions with oil and gas facilities targeted by both sides and soaring prices that fuel triggering a new global energy shock.

What are you talking about? Hey, the markets are going up. Stop this shit. This is serious. This is serious. Are the six week long? Hey, hey, hey, everyone’s going to end up in four or five weeks. What are you talking about? All right. And maybe it’s going to be for that. All right. Hey, remember I was bullshitting down in Kentucky. I said, we won. We won. That was only about a month ago. Right. It gets away with this crap. Iran war damage as much as $58 billion of energy infrastructure. That’s according to rise style.

Again, this is serious stuff. Prices are not going to come down. Dragflation, rising inflation, declining economic growth. This is an article in CNBC yesterday. Regulators are reporting zeroing in on suspicious trades ahead of market moving Trump posts. You got it. A whole fucking rig game. Whole fucking rig game. Again, it’s one big club and you ain’t in it. Nobody will get anything. You ready for this? You know, that little scumbag shithead scum line piece of shit that said, Hey, we got, we got neighbor vessels bringing tankers through the state of our moves. I’m Chris right.

I’m a piece of shit. Hey, Chris, wrong, huh? A line scumbag. Hey, shut up. So let the oil company founded by energy secretary. You ready? I paid no us taxes last year. This is from Politico. The company founded by formerly run energy secretary, Chris, right? Who the fuck energy secretary? I am the energy secretary. I’m a member of the gang. I’m full of shit. It ain’t Chris, right? I’m Chris wrong. Only by his words, only by the shit that’s spewed out of his mouth. Hey, to bring up the markets and bring oil prices down.

Well, you forgot about that. You forgot about that. It’s in your trends journal, but don’t subscribe to the trends journal. No, no, no. Buy the government shit. Go to Fox. And again, hit that like that like button there, the videos, get us out there because they shut me down. They don’t like my language. They don’t like that. It won’t bow down and suck up the scumbags. You ready? The company founded, paid no federal corporate income tax last year, according to regulator filings and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS, the IRS, the international robbing shit system, Liberty energy, the oil field services company found, you ready? Liberty recorded net income before taxes.

You ready? $193 million last year. But received more than 10 million back in tax benefits. Hey, you give me tax benefits. I want every fucking penny from you. Get back to work at Walmart. Get back to work at Costco. Get back to work at Lowe’s. I want every fucking penny from you. Hey, but not just right. Hey, I’m the energy secretary. All right. Is disgusting. Yep. Yep. Liberty’s total tax bill for 2025 was 47.3 million. But that amounted that amount included taxes paid to foreign and state governments. When narrowing down the U.S. federal corporate income tax, the company wound up receiving again, $10.3 million back.

Disgusting. Yep. Yep. Tax refund season got a bit less beautiful. That’s right. Plantation workers of slave land get shit. Yep. We pay more, they pay less. And again, in your trends journal, for a couple of years, we’ve been showing how everything’s going down big. And one of the things each week we’ve been having for years about luxury sales are going down. Very important. Because the middle class is shrinking and style is gone. And again, by the data, the 1% in America are responsible for 50% of the spending, 49.9 or something. All right. And these are articles in the last two days.

Iran war stings luxury brands. Hermez shares drop by as much as 14% on Wednesday. LVMH suffers as conflict in Middle East delays hope for luxury recovery. Luxury, there’s no luxury recovery. It’s going down. And again, it’s not a conflict. It’s a fucking war. Yep. Luxury stocks are suddenly on flesh sale. Today’s Wall Street Journal. We’ve been warning about this, writing about it. Again, we don’t tell you what to do. We give you the on trend opportunities. We give you the facts. You make the decisions. Yep. And again, the bigs keep getting bigger. Lend and greed and partners close the $3 billion construction consulting deal.

Yep. Mattress maker buys key supplier only 2.5 billion. Brown form on bid totals 15 billion. Amazon by satellite from globe star for 11.5757 billion. Yep. And then there’s an audit. Yesterday, a little clown boy advanced. What a little nothing of a jerk off. You got to watch the video I did yesterday with the judge, slanting the judge. And he talks about a guy that was at that meeting with Vance and I guess Rubio was there another clown. But anyway, with the Iranians and saying how Vance was a little nothing of a clown. Pope Leo should avoid us affairs.

Vance says, who the fuck are you to say this? A little nothing of a jerk. Stick to matters of, you know, what’s going on in the Catholic church. Miss Vance said on Fox on Fox shit. He added when they are in conflict, they’re in conflict. I don’t worry so much about it too much. And let’s the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy. Dictating American public policy. Dick Caster. Now today, Pope Leo says world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants amid feud with Trump White House. That’s the language from the Guardian.

The unusually forceful statement from the U.S. conference of Catholic bishops, meanwhile, came after J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice president, assailed Leo for speaking out against the war in effect telling the pope to stay out of politics, quote, and stick to matters of morality. Hey, got some a little scumbag Vance. It is morality not to slaughter people. You got it. Hey, you like that genocide, don’t you, you little prick. You like the murder of those Palestinians. That’s morality. Good for the pope. Yep. On Tuesday, Vance quotes to Leo’s call for peace by challenging his benchmark for a quote, morality, justifiable war.

When the pope says that God is never on the side of people who wield the sword, there are more than 1,000 years tradition of just war theory. Like, shove this shit up your ass. Good for the pope. Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain. Dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth, Leo said. Bravo, Leo. Good for you. And as I was saying, more Trump shit. Iran war very close to over, Trump says, and the stock market’s going to boom.

Happy days are here again. Yep. As inflation spikes and consumer confidence is at all time lows. We’ve beaten that militarily totally, Fox said. They told Fox business. Yep. Total, total. Trump shit, Trump shit. Yep. One bullshit after another. President aims to force quick Iran deal. This is in today’s Wall Street Journal. Over a small and private dinner of spinach, soup, scallops, and diet coke on Monday night. President Trump told the Dutch king and queen. This is king and queen fucking shit. King and queen. Fuck off with this crap. Royalty. Up your ass.

The Dutch. Oh, yeah, the slaughtered people over the fucking world. I forgot Dutch Indonesia. Yeah. That he wants to bring the Iran war to a swift end. The dinner. And Trump ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran. Even as he declared the war is, quote, very close to over. Yep. Oh, Trump. Water ends soon. Practically nothing left to target. What’s today? April 16th. Oh, that was March 11th. Trump shit, Trump shit, Trump shit. Trump shit day after day. And talking about what the pope is saying about clowns that use their religious bullshit, that’s they’re full of shit.

U.S. military locked and loaded to strike Iran’s power plants, energy industry, if ordered. The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is just an example of, quote, polite, end quote, behavior during the ongoing ceasefire and U.S. forces are ready to strike Iran’s power plants. Pentagon chief Pete Henk shit said on Thursday, quote, we’re reloading with more power than ever before. And better intelligence, what intelligence you got the mind of a fucking moron. We’re locked and loaded. Yeah. I mean, look at the language of this stuff. It’s perfect fuck shit. And this is from the wall shit journal and why you subscribe to the church journal.

Look at that headline. Iran’s radical new leaders, radical new leaders. Well, I just talked about Trump. How about shit? They’re not radical. They’re not radical. Oh, the pope, Trump playing Jesus Christ. Oh, not radical. Taking us to war on lies. Not radical. But this is a radical. Radical. What do you call the American and Israelis radical scumbags? Yes. Oh, Israeli army renews evacuation warning to residents of southern Lebanon ahead of attacks. Oh, that was yesterday. Oh, there’s a peace deal. Quote, we call on you to evacuate your homes immediately and move north.

The military spokesman posted on social media yesterday’s call. Israel’s killed at least 2,124 Lebanese, nearly 7,000 in a deadly offensive across Lebanon since March 2nd and injured nearly 7,000. Yep. Cease fire, huh? They can keep violating it. Yep. And Trump says we feel good about the prospects of a deal. Oh, come on now. That ain’t even bullshit. It’s Trump shit. Israel is going to keep this war going. They’re not going to stop it. So support us. We’re supporting you and go to trends journal dot com. Subscribe to it. Get the products that we’re selling.

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