>> Hello everybody. This is Gerald Celente and it's Thursday, June 18th, 2026. And here are some of today's trends in the news. And remember, the trend is your friend and you don't get it anywhere, anyplace like the Trends Journal. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, they can't teach trend tracking. They don't know how to do it. No magazine in the world. So, support us, we're supporting you. Go to trendsjournal.com, trendsjournal.com if you want to read history before it happens. The trend is your friend and we're giving it to you. So, please support us, we're supporting you. So, on to the markets. What happened today? Well, stocks went up after the Federal Reserve indicated the possibility of a rate hike this year. That's the headline. The possibility of a rate hike. One rate hike. What the hell is the big deal? Oh, so gold prices went down and silver prices went down because they may raise interest rates one time this year. What where where the hell are they? The 3. what? 25, 3.5? Oh, nothing. Nothing. And with the sky wish wash portion there, yeah, the Estee Lauder boy girl. Yeah, that guy. Yeah. Trump is going to do everything he can to pump up the economy in the in the lead up to the midterm elections. You could see what he did as the United States lost the Iran war. You got it? Backed out. Backed out. "Hey, we're going to bomb them to make it in 48 hours." You remember all that Yeah. Anyway, we'll get into that later. And um the S&P was up over 1%. Nasdaq up almost 2%. The Dow uh only up 72%. And you ready? This is CNBC. Intel led chip stocks higher. Rising 10.6% after President Donald Trump said the company will partner with Apple on designing chips in the US. Oh, yeah. The merger of state and corporate powers by the definition of Mussolini, fascism. That's right. We the slave land of people of uh the United States through Trump bought 10% of Intel. Oh, it's going down the Now we brought it up, all right? And I wonder how much that clown guys in this in this this backstage or investing or playing the markets on this stuff knowing what's going to happen ahead of time. Yeah, policy makers dot plot revealed that nine out of 18 officials now see interest rates increasing in 2026, they say. Dot plot. Dot clot. Nine out of 18, so half don't. And again, what the hell is the big deal of in as inflation's went way up? It's nothing. So, Brent crude uh it's flat. Selling about 90 79 38 cents a barrel. Bitcoin down over 1,000 bucks selling at 63,000 around that. Gold and silver's not shining. Gold's down 42 bucks selling at 4,213 as we went on the air. Silver down over two bucks selling at 65 67. We're still bullish on it. Cuz the things are going to it's going to Everything's artificially propped up. The whole game is rigged. And the game rigging is going to end and we showed these details in the Trends Journal. And again, we're going to even talk more about it now. Yeah, this is an article from um the uh New York Times. For months, Asia suffered a physical supply crunch that will likely drag on its economies long after the straight opens. That's right. This is very important. You're going to see dragflation, inflation going up, economies going down. You ready? China's export surge as domestic economy eat weakens. And you know where they're they're surging? As we write about in the whole AI world. Chips, high-tech boom. But again, the property boom that busted when they locked down the place, when they launched the COVID war. Again, all your facts are in the Trends Journal, we warned about this. On their Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rat in uh January 2020. And then 3 years of zero COVID policy. They destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people just like all over the world. This COVID war, the damage it's caused is incalculable. Incalculable. Physically, mentally, and economically. But nobody talks about it, you're not allowed to. Get that jab, get that jab, get it up your ass. Get that jab, GET THAT HEY, I'M FAUCI. DON'T SHAKE HANDS ANYMORE. REMEMBER THAT? Now everybody goes like this. A LITTLE SCUMBAG PRICK. A LITTLE SCUMBAG PRICK THAT SOLD US THE AND DON'T FORGET, DON'T FORGET, EVERY TIME YOU JERK OFF, YOU BETTER SANITIZE YOUR HANDS. AND DON'T FORGET TO WEAR those masks. Yep. They changed everything. You go out now, the places used to stop serving at 10:00 stop serving at 9:00. The streets are empty. Young people are all up from having been forced to stay home. Became totally totally totally high-tech addicted. Whole different world. Phony COVID AND THE SCUMBAGS, THE SCUMBAGS OF the uh social media that control it. You got locked out if you came out against it. And that's why my numbers are going way down. I don't suck up or bow down to any person. I only give out the facts. SO, YOU. AND HIT OUR LIKE AND subscribe to our videos. Again, they're doing everything they can to stop me. Yep. Again, last year you had China had a record uh trade surplus of a trillion bucks, right? And again, they the high-tech, the growth was concentrated in high-tech areas. Yep. But middle class shrinking, retail sales going down. Brought to you again, the Chinese war. Yeah, consumer spending fell in China. Yep. China has continued to struggle with weak domestic demand and a real estate market in the doldrums. Yeah, that's right. In the doldrums. They estimate there are 90 million empty apartments in China. But China's going to lead the world in AI. And it's going to bring down the equity markets here. Yeah. Bumper tax refunds drive up retail sales in the US. This is from the Financial Times today. Retail sales in May rose 0.9% from the previous month according to data released by the Census Bureau. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Much of the increased spending was driven by elevated prices at the pump with petrol stations sales rising 3.4%. But even retail sales were strong. Economists said the rise is because the tax refunds under Trump of more than $3,500 return. So now that thing is over, you're going to see it flatten out. Open AI, again, the dot-com bust spent three $34 billion in race to dominate field last year. This is Financial Times. Audited financial figures confirmed by people familiar with the matter show the company spent $19 billion on research and development last year and nearly $6 billion on sales and marketing. Open IA booked about $13 billion in revenue last year. By the end of 2025, it was generating $2 billion a month from $1 billion. Heavily spending contributed to nearly eightfold increase in the net loss. All right? There you got it. Net loss. Open AI's losses were $8 billion according to the people who did the research. Again, there's going to be the dot-com bust. And private equity bosses warn of AI threat to advisory firms. This is very important. Another Again, the only newspaper I really find very valuable is Financial Times. And it's saying how they've this private equity problem where people put a lot of valuations on these software companies that are now being wiped out by AI. We've been doing week after week after week after week after week for months about the private equity crisis that's looming. And it's going to happen. Even here, even more investors want out of private equity credit. Wall Street Journal today. How long have we been warning this? It's in your Trends Journal history before it happens. This is today. We've been saying this since January. February, March, April, May, June. All right? So, subscribe to the Trends Journal. We're giving you everything we can to help you prepare, prevail, and prosper in these dangerous times ahead. Yeah, AI medical models outperform doctors in test setting. Financial Times. And onto the Iran war. US Iran deal redraws the Middle East. Iran gains, rivals alarmed. Why, who said that? That's even from Reuters, mainstream. Yep. Israeli analyst Danny said described the agreement as a strategic, quote, catastrophic. Catastrophe rather. A catastrophe for Israel. What he had what had been framed as a joint US Israeli campaign to weaken or even topple Islamic Republic, in his view, flipped into American recognition of Iran. Quote, we went to topple the regime with US backing and ended with Washington effectively giving legitimacy and strengthening the same regime we wanted to bring down, he said. He got it. Lost it. America lost it. Here, Iran gains upper hand in Lebanon. This again, this is from Reuters. From Lebanon for Lebanon, the agreement tilts the balance toward Iran reinforcing the role of Tehran-backed Hezbollah and folding the country into broader US-Iran framework while sidelining Beirut-Israeli talks. And Gulf sources say the deal is already reshaping strategic thinking, eroding confidence in US protection, entrenching Iran as an enduring regional force, and accelerating a shift toward accommodation rather than confrontation. As we had forecast since the war began. Yeah. They tried to take down Iran militarily, they couldn't. The alternative would have been catastrophic. A wider war could have devastated the Gulf for decades. That's this guy Alex Vatanka said. The senior at the Middle East Institute Washington. History before it happens. We said this would happen. Very few did. Very few. People on Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano. Yeah, they were on the same page. Very few of us. And Press TV just put out by the way the full text of the memorandum. And it's very very important, and to read, because again, one of the the major things is lifting sanctions, of pulling Israel pulling out of Lebanon, which they're not going to do. Regime emerges emboldened after surviving enemy onslaught. That's right. That's they call Iran. Again, Financial Times re- regime emerges emboldened. America lost another war. Hey, you lost the Vietnam war, couldn't beat the Afghans, lost the Iraqis. Yeah. Once again, a losing war. But, might have cost probably a hundred billion bucks. Don't worry about it. The world is a rotten, the country's going to We got a bunch of everywhere. It's okay. Yep. Trump deal sidesteps key reason he went to war with Iran. Yep. Wall Street Journal. Sidesteps, backed out, lost. Ready? Threat of economic catastrophe, Trump says, motivated him to end the conflict. It's not a conflict, this is a war. And again, this is the Wall Street Journal. President Trump defended on Wednesday his agreement to end the Iran war, saying he wanted to avoid an economic catastrophe that could have resulted if the conflict the US launched had continued. He caused it. He caused it. He and Netanyahu. And again, as the Covered the Trenches Journal says, two warmongers. Two warmongers did it. They destroyed the global economy, eight billion people paying the price, and they let him get away with it. Yep. And remember Trump said back a couple of weeks ago, I don't think about Americans financial situation. Yep. I don't think about anybody. I would think about myself. He didn't say that, but that's what he says, I got a big ego. Yeah. Anyway, that's it. Then on Wednesday Trump said it's a memorandum of understanding and if I don't like it we'll go back to shooting them and dropping bombs on their head. Could you imagine if Putin said, "Hey, if we don't like the deal with Ukraine uh uh we'll go back to shooting them and dropping bombs on their head." Oh my god. Oh my god. What Putin said. How could Trump say this and get away with it? This is maniacal maniacal evil crap. Again, I launched Occupy Peace. Get very little support. I thank you those of you who do, very few. That he gets away with this crap, stealing our money, going to war, lying, lying his way into office as a peace president. I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars, I'm full of Yep, what else you got here? Israel demarcates expanded Lebanon occupation zone challenging US Iran pact. Israel published a map today showing an expanded military control in southern Lebanon and said it would not rule out carrying out attacks beyond it. Challenging the terms of the US-Iran pact that calls for Lebanon's sovereignty to be respected. Israel has rejected calls to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon. It's not going to be a peace deal. It's not going to be a peace deal and they're going to blame Iran for violating it and the war will continue. Yep. A televised speech on Wednesday, Hezbollah chief rejected the notion of Israeli security zones. No yellow zones, no red zones, no green zones. Israel Israel must leave and it will leave. Oh, they're they're terrorists. They're militants, Hezbollah, because they want to throw Israel out of Lebanon. How dare they? They're the chosen people. They can choose to steal anything they would want. I'm just a giddy from the blog. Some of you joke. you with your chosen crap. That's not the God that I believe in. The God chooses people to live to the spirit of God, not your Netanyahu faces backlash from across domestic political spectrum over US accord with Iran. Again, this is from Financial Times. War-ending deal is signed by US and Iran, takes effects, commits Israel to terms it opposes. This is right out now as we went to press from The Times of Israel. Yep. The terms it opposes. Now, 71% of Israelis don't trust Trump to look out for them in Iran deal. Just 11% say Israel won the war. Israel lost the war even according to the people, the United States lost the war according to the facts. And from Haaretz, Israel is bleeding support in the US and pouring tens of millions into trying to change that. They're showing about all the money coming into the elections and trying to change this, but they mentioned the poll according to a survey by Pew Research Center. Nearly 60% of American public don't trust Netanyahu. What are the other 40%? And according to the survey, about 41% of Republicans and 50% of young Republicans under 50 hold a negative view of Israel. Overall, 60% of Americans now hold a negative view of Israel compared to 53% last year and 42% in 2022. This is serious. Israel could be destroying their future with this as they ramp up this war because there's going to be less and less support for it. Trump says he expects complete ceasefire as Netanyahu vows IDF will remain in Lebanon. Contrary crap. And JD Vance said Israel should not attack its only powerful ally. All right? And showing that Israel's violating it from Haaretz, three killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. Yep. And even the UK minister urges Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon. Yep. And Iran is going to hold on to the deal. So there you got it. That's some of your trends in the news. Check out the interview I did yesterday with the judge. And support us. We're supporting you. These are serious times. These are serious times. And in the summertime, when the living is easy, people are totally out of tune with what's going on. And summer's coming. And a lot going to going to happen during this summer that most people will have no clue about it. And we're going to give you everything we can to give you the best we can. So support us. Subscribe to the Trends Journal if you want to read history before it happens. Thank you.