Host
Chris Waltzek & Bob Chapman, The International
Forecaster discussion and answer listener's questions.
2nd
Hour:
Catherine
Austin Fitts
Solari
Inc.
Catherine
Austin Fitts served as Managing Director and Member
of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment
bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. Catherine served
as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing
Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration
and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities
Group, Inc., a broker-dealer/investment bank and
software developer that successfully completed $12
billion of transactions and $500 billion of portfolio
strategy prototyping the Solari model. Catherine
has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an
MBA from The Wharton School, and studied Chinese
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Catherine
serves on the board of the Gold Antitrust Action
Committee and publishes a column, Mapping the Real
Deal, in Scoop Media in New Zealand.
James
Turk is founder of GoldMoney.com, which operates
the leading digital gold currency. He also publishes
the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment
newsletter he founded in 1987. Previously, after
a decade with the international department of Chase
Manhattan Bank, he managed the commodity department
of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. His media
appearances include GoldSeek.com, CNN, Bloomberg,
CBSMarketWatch, CNBC, Barrons, the Wall Street
Journal, and Financial Sense Online.
The
Martial Artist of Trend Forecasting The purpose
of trend forecasting is to provide insights and directions
in anticipation of what the future may bring
and to be prepared for the unexpected.
Gerald
Celente, a Close Combat practitioner and black belt
trainer, well understands the importance of proacting
rather than reacting: "The first rule of Close
Combat is to attack the attacker. Action is faster
than reaction. The same holds true for the future.
You know the future is coming attack it before
it attacks you."
Founder
of The Trends Research Institute in 1980, Gerald Celente
is a pioneer trend strategist. He is author of the
national bestseller Trends 2000 and Trend Tracking
(Warner Books) "Far better than Megatrends,"
and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends
Journal newsletter.
Political
Atheist Gerald Celente is a political atheist.
Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or
conventional wisdom, Celente, whose motto is "think
for yourself," observes and analyzes the current
events forming future trends for what they are
not for the way he wants them to be.
Like
a doctor giving a diagnosis after gathering the facts,
whether or not you like the prognosis doesnt
alter the outcome, make him an optimist or pessimist
its simply what is. And while Celente
holds a US passport, he considers himself a citizen
of the world.
Globalnomic®
Trend Forecaster Using his unique perspectives
on current events forming future trends, Gerald Celente
developed the Globalnomic® methodology which is
used to identify, track, forecast and manage trends.
The
world's only trends analyst covering 300 diversified
trends fields, Gerald Celente and the Trends Research
Institute provide trend research studies and consulting
services to businesses and governments worldwide.
Celente also designed the nations first professional
course in trend forecasting.
The
proof is in his past Gerald Celente has earned
his reputation as "The most trusted name in trends"
by accurately forecasting hundreds of social, business,
consumer, environmental, economic, political, entertainment,
and technology trends. Among them:
Celente coined the term "clean foods" in
1993 and predicted sustained growth in organic products
in 1988.
When
gold was at $275 per ounce in 2002, Celente said the
price had bottomed and in 2004 forecast the beginning
of the "Gold Bull Run." Since that time,
with pinpoint accuracy, he said when, why - and how
high - gold would go. *youtube.com recording.
Bill
Murphy, GATA Chairman
Murphy grew up in Glen Ridge, N.J., and
graduated from the School of Hotel Administration
at Cornell University in 1968. In his senior
year he broke all the Ivy League single-year
pass-receving records. He then became a
starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots
of the American Football League. He went
on to work for various Wall Street brokerage
firms and specialized in commodity futures.
He began as a Merrill Lynch trainee and
went on to Shearson Hayden Stone and Drexel
Burnham. From there he became affiliated
with introducing brokers and eventually
started his own brokerage on 5th Avenue
in New York. He now operates an Internet
site for financial commentary, www.lemetropolecafe.com.