- KINGSTON, NY, 22 January
2009 -- President Barack Obama will use his poll shattering popularity
to swiftly enact policies that will prove to be among the most costly and
potentially destructive in America's history, predicts Trends Research
Institute Director Gerald Celente.
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- "We are forecasting dramatic measures will soon
be taken by the Obama Administration that will worsen the credit crisis
and severely damage the nation's economic system," says Celente.
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- According to The Trends Research Institute Director,
the new President who swept into the White House on a tidal wave of unprecedented
enthusiasm and the blessings of a strong majority, will have free reign
to take whatever actions he deems necessary.
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- "Whatever Obama wants, Obama gets. Desperate,
scared and not knowing what to do to survive the economic storm, people
are seeking a messiah to save them, and Obama is their man," said
Celente. "When fear rules, reason and logic are ruled out."
(According to an AP poll, 71 percent of Americans believe the economy
will improve during the first year of the Obama presidency.)
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- The 332-point stock market decline that greeted Mr. Obama
into office (a record breaker for Inauguration Day) and today's 105-point
market decline will be followed by a steady stream of worsening economic
news and major financial calamities, Gerald Celente forecasts. Just as
President Bush exploited 9/11 as a pretext to wage the War on Terror, invade
Iraq, abrogate the Constitution and exert broad Executive powers (with
bipartisan and majority public support), President Obama will be given
even greater latitude to fight a war on economic terror, predicts Celente.
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- For example, Timothy Geithner, President Obama's nominee
for Treasury Secretary, has pledged to expand and prolong government intervention
in the financial markets. He said his economic team would take "forceful"
and "substantial action" on a "very dramatic scale"
to "forge an integrated strategy on how best to achieve currency realignment."
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- Celente advises to closely read the signals that have
been clearly telegraphed by Mr. Geithner. "From proclaiming a bank
holiday, confiscating gold to backstop devaluing currencies, mega-bailouts
for the too-big-to-fails ... to nationalizing public firms and dollar devaluation
... whichever of these or other actions are taken, the financial burden
will fall on the American people," Celente forecasts.
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- Blame the Little People
- In his inauguration speech President Obama warned Americans
of tougher times ahead and for the need to make greater sacrifices. In
doing so, the President placed equal blame for the global financial crisis
on the public's "collective failure to make hard choices," along
with the "consequences of greed and irresponsibility on the part of
some."
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- "The President is correct. Many have spent beyond
their means, borrowed themselves into debt, took risks playing the markets,
and speculated on real estate," said Celente. "But comparing
Main Street's financial missteps to the large scale corruption and criminality
of the banks, brokers, insurance companies, hedge fund operators, mortgage
companies, rating agencies and buyout firms that cooked the books, enriched
executives, ripped off clients and rigged the numbers, is further evidence
that Obama is a Wall Street man.
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- Trendpost: Do you know where your money is? Is
it safe? Will you be able to get it when you need it? What will you do
if trading is temporarily suspended on Wall Street? Will you be able redeem
your CD's?
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- The new Treasury Secretary promises "a very dramatic
scale" of action that may in turn require you to take very dramatic
counter measures to protect your assets. We forecast with great confidence
that whatever actions Washington takes to save the "too big to fails,"
they will prove very costly for the "too small to saves" who
will be forced to foot the bills and eat the losses.
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