Forecast:
U.S. Dollar
Could Plunge 90 pct
By UPI
28 November, 2007
UPI
Nov. 19 (UPI) --
A financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall
of as much as 90 percent and gold soaring to $2,000 an ounce, a trends
researcher said.
"We are going to see
economic times the likes of which no living person has seen," Trends
Research Institute Director Gerald Celente said, forecasting a "Panic
of 2008."
"The bigger they are,
the harder they'll fall," he said in an interview with New York's
Hudson Valley Business Journal.
Celente -- who forecast the
subprime mortgage financial crisis and the dollar's decline a year ago
and gold's current rise in May -- told the newspaper the subprime mortgage
meltdown was just the first "small, high-risk segment of the market"
to collapse.
Derivative dealers, hedge
funds, buyout firms and other market players will also unravel, he said.
Massive corporate losses,
such as those recently posted by Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp.,
will also be fairly common "for some time to come," he said.
He said he would not "be
surprised if giants tumble to their deaths," Celente said.
The Panic of 2008 will lead
to a lower U.S. standard of living, he said.
A result will be a drop in
holiday spending a year from now, followed by a permanent end of the
"retail holiday frenzy" that has driven the U.S. economy since
the 1940s, he said.
© 2007 United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
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