IRAN WAR: BAD SITUATION WORSE... GLOBAL ENERGY SHOCK AND DRAGFLATION

Hello everybody. This is Gerald Celente and it's Thursday, April 16th, 2026. Yep. And here is some of today's trends in the news. And remember, the trend is your friend. Don't teach it at Harvard. Don't teach it at Yale. Don't teach it at Oxford. Don't teach it at Cambridge. Yep. We're the only ones giving it to you. Best selling books, Trends 2000, Trend Tracking for better than mega trends, 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, they 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 it from a cat that's born in 1946. 50 companies control 90% of the media. Now, five or six control 90%. Yeah. And again, without going into the of CNN and CBS with its Zionist pro Barry Weiss and the Ellison Zionists, you're getting or Fox News. So, anyway, it's just We're giving you 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 times have you heard this HOW MANY times have you heard this Go back. Again, we have all the quotes spewing out of Trump's Trump Hey, the war's over. It's war's over. The war's over. The war's over. The war's I'll give you 48 hours. I'll give you 48 I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER WEEK. I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER 10 DAYS. I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER 2 WEEKS. The 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, about 88% of the value. Again, 1% owns 54% of the markets. You put the 10% with the 1% they got 93%, which means that us plantation workers of Slavelandia and 90% got a lousy 7%. The thing IS RIGGED. TOTAL WHAT? 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 was up 115 points. Here's what they Here's This is the language. Stocks received a bump higher Thursday after President Donald Trump confirmed he spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He spoke with him? What Trump back and forth? SWALLOW THE BE A GOOD LITTLE BOY AND GIRL. Spoke with him. He added that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire that'll begin begin now, 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. All right? Israel halting its attacks on Lebanon has been a key condition for US-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 US and Iran, the next round of in-person talks may occur probably maybe next weekend, Trump said. You know what that is. Warning. Warning. Trump alert. Trump alert. Trump alert. That he said earlier this week the Iran war is very close to over. How many times we heard this So anyway, Brent crude, I guess it's not over, 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 traded at 75K range, up 10K from its low recently. We're still bullish on it. Gold's flat, but still high, 4,789 bucks. Silver was down 56 cents, still high, 78 dollars and 30 cents. India pushes clean energy. Yep. What did we tell you? But it's still costing them. They got big gaps but they're going into it. On trend preneur 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 market's going up a total total That was >> 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'll come up with a digital coin. All right. All right. They're going to come up with some detected. Take precaution. You got it. And again, we remain very bullish on gold and silver. Huh. 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 6-week-long war struck the world's most energy-rich regions with oil and gas facilities targeted by both sides and soaring prices of fuel triggering a new global energy shock. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? HEY, THE MARKETS ARE GOING UP. Stop this This is serious. This is serious. Oh, the 6-week long Hey, hey, hey, HEY, THE WAR'S GOING TO END IN IN 4 5 WEEKS. WHAT ARE YOU talking about? All right. And maybe it's going to be before that. ALL RIGHT. HEY, REMEMBER I WAS BULLSHITTING DOWN IN KENTUCKY? I SAID WE WON. WE WON. THAT WAS ONLY ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT A MONTH AGO. ALL RIGHT. HE GETS AWAY with this crap. Iran war damage as much as $58 billion of energy infrastructure. That's according to Rystad. Again, this is serious stuff. Prices are not going to come down. Dragflation, rising inflation, declining economic growth. There's an article in CNBC yesterday. Regulators are reporting zeroing in on suspicious trades ahead of market-moving Trump posts. You got it. A whole rigged game. Whole rigged 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 scum lying piece of that said, "Hey, WE GOT WE GOT NAVAL VESSELS. THEY'RE BRINGING TANKERS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. I'M CHRIS WRIGHT. I'M A PIECE OF SHIT." HEY, CHRIS WRONG, HUH? A LYING SCUMBAG. HEY, SHUT UP, SALENTI. Oil company founded by energy secretary, you ready? Paid no US taxes last year. This is from Politico. The company founded by formally run energy SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT. WHO THE ENERGY SECRETARY? I'M THE ENERGY SECRETARY. I'M A MEMBER OF THE GANG. I'M FULL OF IT AIN'T CHRIS WRIGHT. I'M CHRIS WRONG. ONLY BY HIS WORDS. ONLY BY THE THAT SPEWED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. HEY, TO BRING up the markets and bring oil prices down. OH, YOU FORGOT ABOUT THAT. YOU FORGOT ABOUT THAT. IT'S IN YOUR TREND JOURNAL, BUT DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THE TREND JOURNAL. NO, NO, NO. BUY THE GOVERNMENT 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 I WON'T BOW DOWN AND SUCK UP TO 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 system. Liberty Energy, the oil field services company found right? 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 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 PENNY FROM YOU. HEY, but not Chris Wright. HEY, I'M THE ENERGY SECRETARY, ALL RIGHT? This is disgusting. 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 US federal corporate income tax, the company wound up receiving, again, $10.3 million back. Disgusting. Yep. Tax refund season got a bit less beautiful. That's right. Plantation workers of slaveland eat 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. Cuz the middle class is shrinking and style's 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. Hermes shares dropped 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 war. Yep. Luxury stocks are suddenly on flash 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 entrepreneur opportunities. We give you the facts, you make the decisions. Yep. And again, the bigs keep getting bigger. Leonard Green & Partners closes three billion dollar construction consulting deal. Yep. Mattress maker buys key supplier in only for 2.5 billion. Brown-Forman bid totals 15 billion. Amazon to buy satellite from Globalstar for 11.5 7557 billion. Yep. And then there's an article yesterday that little clown boy Vance. What a little nothing of a jerk off. You got to watch the video I did yesterday with uh the judge, saluting the judge. And he talks about a guy that was at that meeting with Vance and uh I guess Rubio was there, another clown. But anyway, uh with the Iranians and saying how Vance was a little nothing of a clown. Pope Leo should avoid US affairs, Vance says. Who the are you to say this? A little nothing of a jerk. Stick to of, you know, "What's going on in the Catholic Church?" Miss Vance said on Fox on Fox 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. Dictator. 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 US 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. Hey, 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 TO MURDER THOSE PALESTINIANS, HUH? THAT'S MORALITY. GOOD FOR THE POPE. YEP. On Tuesday, Vance questioned 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 up your ass. Good for the Pope. Woe to those who manipulate religion in 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 Iran war very close to over, Trump says. And the stock market's going to boom. Happy days are here again. Da da da da da da da da da da Yep. As inflation spikes and consumer confidence is at all-time lows. We beaten that militarily totally, Trump said. They told Fox Business. Yep. Total total level dot com five. >> Trump Trump Yep. One after another. President aims to force quick Iran deal. This is in today's Wall Street Journal. Over 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 King and queen. off with this crap. Royalty. Up your ass. The Dutch. Oh, yeah, they slaughtered people over the world. I forgot Dutch is Indonesia. Yeah. That he wants to bring the Iran war to a swift end. The dinner la la la la Trump ratcheted up economic pressure on Iran even as he declared the war is quote, "Very close to over." Yep. Oh. Trump war to end soon, practically nothing left to target. What's today? April 16th? Oh, that was March 11th. Trump Trump Trump Trump day after day. And that talking about what the Pope is saying about clowns that use their religious that's their foolish US military locked and loaded to strike Iran's power plants energy industry if ordered. The US naval blockade of Iran is just an example of quote, "Polite." End quote, "Behavior during the ongoing ceasefire." And US forces are ready to strike Iran's power plants. Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth said on Thursday, quote, "We're reloading with more power than ever before and better intelligence." What intelligence? You have the mind of a "We're locked and loaded." Yeah, I mean, look at the language of this stuff. That's perfect And this is from the Wall Journal. And why you subscribe to the tr- Trump Journal. Look at that headline. Iran's radical new leaders. Radical new new leaders? Well, I just talked about Trump. How about Hegseth? They're not radical? Oh, the Pope or Trump plane Jesus Christ or not radical? Taking us to war on lies, not radical? But this is a radical radical? WHY DON'T YOU CALL THE AMERICAN AND Israelis radical scumbags? 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. He's called It is Yeah. 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. Ceasefire, huh? They're going to keep violating it. Yep. And Trump says, "We feel good about the prospects of a deal." No, come on now. That ain't even That's horse It's Trump Israel's going to keep this war going. They're not going to stop it. So, support us. We're supporting you. And go to trendsjournal.com. Subscribe to it. Get the products that we're selling. We're doing everything we can for you. 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