Hi Lou,
I too saw Gerald Celente on Beck and I was wondering about the source of his predictions. A lot of people on "the errornet" make predictions and he doesn't seem to have a technical basis for what he says on the youtube videos.
On the Beck show (on Saturday), I believe he mentioned Credit Default Swaps, but called them Credit Swap Defaults, or somehow mangled the name. I know that's pretty thin, but since they ARE the primary source of the real estate bubble, you'd think he'd be conversant with the terminology.
There are financial newsletter guys who have been right all along about this, but they charge for their work and are mainly availalble for subscribing institutional investors, and wouldn't make much if they gave away their info on TV.
All that said, it doesn't mean he's NOT right....lol... but I'm waiting to see more of him on Beck (who promised he'd be back on)
As incredible as it seems, the Beck show is the only one I can find on TV that pulls together the various ways our country is coming apart, and there's so many irritating little things that he doesn't even have time to mention!
For example, have you tried to buy ordinary incandescent light bulbs lately? You can't find them in big box stores anymore, and those horrible haz-mat curly-coil flourescents make your skin look like something out of the fishmarket. The reason is (as usual) the nanny state libtards who (people seem to forget) have had control of congress since 2006. Oh, and did I mention they're about 4X as expensive?