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"Things are going to get much worse," Celente says. "Society is breaking down on every level: socially, economically, politically and it's not just the U.S. It's worldwide." Celente believes the globe is following a similar path to what occurred after the 1929 crash: Severe economic contraction, followed by currency wars, trade wars and, ultimately, armed conflict. Currency wars have already started he said, citing the recent decision by the Swiss National Bank to peg the Swiss franc to the euro. "Trade wars are next and then real wars, unfortunately," Celente predicts. Unlike the 1930s and 1940s, The Trends Journal publisher...

What’s in Store for Us? by Ari Bussel I am neither naive nor egocentric enough to presume I can forecast the future. I do, however, look at the present with a quizzical look, bewildered. Naomi Shemer, of blessed memory, one of Israel’s most prolific song writers, composers and singers, used to sing her songs, often sitting in front of a piano. In one of her songs she says: “Open your eyes, look around.” We too need to do that. It is a wonderful song titled Good People, in which Shemer writes: Good people in the middle of the road /...