Hello everybody. This is Gerald Centi and it's Thursday, April 23rd, 2026. And here are some of today's trends in the news. And remember, the trend is your friend. Can't get what you're getting from the trends journal anywhere, any place, anyhow. for a grand total of $259 a week. So, you support us because we're supporting you. And a lot of people don't like me because I don't swallow I don't eat I'm not a little that looks up to So, Alex Jones took me off going back to Oprah today. We don't You got to swallow our Don't swallow our We don't want you here. So, we're giving you just facts. With this Iran war going on, we read everything we can coming from the Iranian news media, everything we can from the Israeli news media, everything we can from the Arab news media, everything we can from the European news media. And this is what they're saying. This is our analysis, and this is our trend forecast. Nobody does it. So, on to the markets today. This is how CNBC says it. Stocks close lower, retreating from records as software shares slump and oil jumps. Stocks pull back on Thursday, led by a drop in software and higher oil prices. as investor uncertainty toward the trajecto trajectory of the Iran war hovered over the markets. What the you talking about? Investor uncertainty. Shove this crap up your ass. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're uncertain. Trump said, "Uh, HEY, I'M GOING TO BOMB YOU 48 HOURS. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU 48 hours." Oh, that was only about a month ago. HEY, 48 HOURS. I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER DAY. I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER MARKETS GO UP. Oil prices go down. Uncertainty. NO. THE WHOLE GAME IS RIGGED BY A BUNCH OF BASTARDS. And I can't say the other. What a joke. What a joke. Hey. Hey. I give you another 10 days. All right. I'll give you another 10 days. All right. every day. MORE TRUMP SPEWING OUT. AND THAT'S THE NEWS. That's the news. That's all, folks. Yeah. A clown show. We're giving you what nobody in the world has given you. No magazine comes close to it. We need your support because the more subscribers we have, the more we can do to help change the world. And you don't believe me? Hey, I watch Fox. YOU'RE RIGHT. MY MIND'S A BIG GUY LIKE A FOX. I'M NOT LIKE I MESS. YEAH, I LIKE YEAH, I REMEMBER If we had more subscribers and people knew the truth, we could go in a better direction in this nation, which is going down to They go on to say the S&P traded down 0.41%. The Nasdaq was down 0.89%. And the Dow lost about 180 points. Shares of IBM and Service Now tumbled more than 8%. I'm mentioning this because each week in your trends journal, we're showing you the effects of AI and how they're hitting these software companies. And you go back to your trends journal before the Iran war was launched by the man who ran for office back in um 2024 and said, "Hey, hey, vote for me. All right, vote for me. We're going to have peace on earth all over." All right. All right. SMART ONE OF MY ALL RIGHT. OH, HE ONLY said that on September 25th, 2024. Hey, hey, hey, HEY. I'M NOT GOING TO START A WAR. I'M GOING TO STOP WARS. All right. All right. A man of peace or a piece of So, going back starts the war on February 28th. Go back before that. Go back to your trends journal. The NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7, overvalued markets, was in correction territory, down over 10%. Everything was going down. And he keeps selling this Again, they use the language about um investor uncertainty. No, swallow my Swallow my Again, go back to what we we Tuesday's podcast where we said, you know, Monday morning he said there's going to peace deal, no peace deal, no peace, no ceasefire. I I'm going to bomb them. Bombs away. They're going to bombs are going to drop. I'm going to give you a ceasefire, more ceasefire. Anyway, all Brent crude today $106 a barrel. Bitcoin went down about a,000 bucks, but it's trading in that 77,000 range. So, it's up almost $10,000. So, it's low. We're still bullish on it. Gold was down some 47 bucks today. And we're going to say why. And silver was down. Gold is 4,691. Still high. Again, Russia, Mexico, uh Turkey, one country after another selling gold to cover their debt level. And the danger that this war has caused around the globe. Their currencies are going down. Their debt's going up. They got to sell. China's buying more. We're still very positive on it. Silver was down $2.26.751. This is an article in the Wall Street Journal today. Talk stalled, but investors can't stop buying. Yeah. Cease fire extended. No ceasefire. You ready? The International Energy Agency chief told CNBC on Thursday, quote, "We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history." No Hey, we've only been writing about this now in the Trends Journal for years, for months, for weeks. We kept saying if the United States and or Iran attacks, excuse me, the United States and or Israel attacks Iran, you're going to see Brent crude spike to well above $100 a barrel, probably 130. It's going to crash the global economy and the global economy markets and then make a bad situation worse is the Ukraine war where they cut off all that energy going into other countries that Russia was selling. This is very serious. The economic dangers of this are extensive. One article after another about this before this guy said this in this week's trends journal. And by the way, take a look at the cover of this week's Trends Journal because it makes it perfectly clear it's Trump Straight moves open, straight moves closed. Ceasefire, no ceasefire. Meeting meeting with Iranians, no meeting with Iranians. One lie after another. No deal. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Hey, no deal. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Nice guy. Spoiled daddy's boy. Oh, daddy only left him according to what his brother Robert told me back in 2017. The father left over a half a billion dollars worth of real estate. Yep. the biggest energy crisis as today we lost 30 million 13 million barrels per day and there are major disruptions in vital commodities. You got it in your trends journal before he said it. Old news. President's push to sell Poland's gold for defense fund. Yep. That's according to the Financial Times. The president was pushing for this tit. Yep. and um they they turned it back with two another guy but anyway they they need the money that's why I'm making it clear Iran war impact sweeps ever deeper into global economy again old news top story today in Reuters the global economy is facing ever more tangible strength trains from the energy shock triggered by the Iran war. As factories grapple with soaring production costs and activity weakens even in service sectors, major survey survey shows on Thursday. Again, we said this was going to happen. It's in your trends journal since the war began. So, hit the like and subscribe to our videos because we're giving you what nobody's giving you. Nobody on the economic geopolitical front and putting everything together with trend analysis and trend forecast. Nowhere know how. Yep. They pointed to the 21 countries just to the Euro zone as among those hardest to one after another. This thing is very serious and it's going to get much worse. Oh, you ready? Financial sentiment in Germany hits lowest since 2022. Oh, YOU MEAN 2022? HEY, GET BACK IN YOUR HOUSE. Get back in your house. AND WHEN YOU JERK OFF, MAKE SURE YOU SANITIZE YOUR HANDS CUZ co is going to kill you. Remember that? REMEMBER THAT SLOBBY CLOWN BOY UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? RACHEL LEVIN. OH, Richard Levin. Oh, little Lola. Lol. Lola. Got my dick cut off. DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. REMEMBER THAT LITTLE FAT SLOB TELLING US WHAT TO DO. HOW ABOUT YOU, FOUCHY? OH, BACK TO 2022. YEAH, ONE OF THE SCUMBAG POLITICIANS LOCKED DOWN THE WORLD. YEAH, that one. Anyway, the sentiment is lowest since then. And by the way, that COVID war destroyed the global economy in so many ways, physically, mentally, socially, financially, but don't talk about it. Don't talk about it. Yeah. like this mask says. You got it. What else? You ready? Remember, financial sentiment in Germany hits lowest since 2022. Now, this is the third this is the largest economy in Europe. The third largest in the world. You ready? Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe's strongest military by 2039. Could you believe how stupid they're spending that little Mertz clown, the little ugly little scumbag that's the chancellor over there? They want to spend a trillion dollars to build up our defense. YEAH, WE ONLY HAD World War I and World War II. Yeah. Yeah. You like World War I. All right. You got it here. The economy is going down and they're building up the military one after another. Very important. Each week in your trends journal, we have a whole section on AI. And there's an article that came out today from Financial Times. Sony serves up ice AI robot that beats humans at table tennis. Car makers lean on Chinese technology to lift sales. CL cattle has developed a battery capable of allowing an electric vehicle to drive 1,500 kilometers, 930 mi on one charge, the Chinese group said yesterday. I'm mentioning this because as I said, the business of America is war and the business of China is business. And when that little scumbag arrogant prick, I didn't have sex with that woman. Monica Winston, she always talk like that. Yeah, that guy Bill Clinton bringing China into the World Trade Organization 25 years ago. They had none of this technology. The Western countries that went there to get cheap labor gave them everything they never had. High-tech to heavy industry. China's leading the world. And going back to the equity markets, that's what's going to bring the the equity markets down as they take over the AI sector. Combust 2.0. 0. Yep. What else we got here? You ready? This was yesterday talking about >> detected. Take precautions. >> No. No. It's Trump's President Trump signaled Wednesday morning that a second round of peace talks between the US and Iran could be coming in the next 36 to 72 hours. Every day. Every day he says this Then today, for those people fewer in number, this is what he put on his truth social media, truth media, Trump social. For those people fewer in number now than ever before, they're reading the failing New York Times or watching fake news CNN. YEAH, THEY'RE ONLY SUPPOSED TO SWALLOW MY ALL RIGHT, HOW DARE YOU SAY ANYTHING? YOU DON'T SWALLOW MY ANYWAY, and that I am anxious to end the war, if you would even call it that. Hey, it's a war. You're killing people. You got it. Oh, no. It's a conflict. I forgot with Iran. Please be advised that I am possibly the least pressured person ever to be in this position. I have all the time in the world, but Iran doesn't. The clock is ticking. >> level 5. >> You got it. He goes on to say, "Trump did not directly address how long it will take to clear the waterways." He said that and that um they're going to do more to stop that. There is no hesitation, he wrote. Additionally, our mind sweepers are clearing the straits right now. >> Oh, come on now. That ain't even >> It's Trump Yep. I am hereby ordering the activity to continue, but at a a tripled up level. This is the kind of crap coming out. You ready? Asked in the Oval Office on Thursday if Americans should anticipate the ongoing conflict war will keep gas prices elevated. Trump said it would be higher quote for a little while end quote, but you know what they get for that? In other words, what you get for paying more for gas, Iran without a nuclear weapon. >> Warning. Warning. alert. >> Never Trump does. They were never making nuclear weapons. All the proof is there. We only report the facts. So you're paying more for energy. Everybody around the world. The economy is going down like Yeah. But we stopped them from having nuclear weapons. And Saddam Hussein weapons of mass destruction. Yeah. George Bush actually has a dick and balls. Yeah. Right. This is terrible. Iran's navy is lying at the bottom of the sea. Their off air force is demolished. Their anti-aircraft or radar weaponry are gone. Their leaders are no longer with us. The blockade is airtight and strong. From there, it only gets worse. Time is not on our side. Can you believe this Of course you can. It's day after day. And then this is from Reuters. Iran shows off its control over strait and now Israel's mourning of a future attack. Israel is the one that's going to keep this war going. And again, it's right there. Iran flaunted its tightening grip on the Straight of Her on Thursday with video its commandos storming huge cargo ships after the collapse of peace talks that Washington had hoped would open the world's most important shipping corridor. One lie coming out of Trump's mouth. And this is from Reuters. So he'll call Reuters a bunch of And some wrote that. You can't quote word. They're from Rothschilds. I Googled it up. That has nothing to do with Rothschilds. Trump says Iran collapsing over Herm's blockade. Yep. One This is from anti-war.com. Trump shares post calling for the killing of Iranian leaders who won't accept US demands. Oh, this isn't a war. I could kill anybody I want, right? I can kill anybody I want in any country. I launched Occupy Peace. So, it ain't coming out of MY MOUTH. I PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY HEART AND SOUL IS. And I want to thank the people that donate to Occupy Peace. We need more money to make this thing going. I have rallies all the time. I do as much as I can. You ready? Israel honors rabbi calling for flattening of Gaza Strip. This is in today's New York Times. Yep. We apparently need to flatten the Gaza Strip. He said, "Got to get rid of our mouth. This is serious and it's only going to get worse. Lie after lie, day after day. Check out the interview I did yesterday with Judge Npalitano and go to his site, Judging Freedom. He has great people on there. And please support us because we're supporting you. Thanks for tuning in and see you soon.