Only a guy like Gerald Celente would make that analogy. He's a great man and we should all be grateful that guys like him catch the ears of people like us. We should be thankful he's managed to acquire a soap box and enough media attention that we get to hear him talk from time to time.

People like Celente are rare, indeed.

So he was in Chile for the earthquake. Not to enjoy the rock and roll of course but the earthquake caught him unaware and he was forced to cut his trip short and hustle himself out of the country with the help of friends and connections all over the world. It helps to have friends. They weren't the members of his book club.

Gerald tells an interesting story about his escape from Chile, through Mendoza, Argentina to Buenos Aires. He makes stops along the way discussing the wise guys on TV, Hannity and O'Reilly, Laurel & Hardy and the talking heads on CNBC. He mentions Moe, Larry & Curly in passing but best of all he states that, "they've come up with schemes undreamed of" and "corporate communism" describing "the greatest hijacking of all time" in reference to the USA and the international banks we're slaves to.

"Bye bye Dubai," says Celente, "and there's Lithuania, hey, where's that?" he asks. "All of the digital money isn't worth the paper it's not printed on" says Celente obviously heavily invested in gold himself.

"Obama out-Bushed Bush," but "after 8 years of Bush they would have cheered Mussolini into office."

"Americans are soft, the most obese country in the world," says Celente but as a Bronx boy my saying is, "when people have nothing left to lose they lose it" and you'll see "more people crashing planes into IRS buildings" and he laughs.

Laugh with Celente at the "white-shoe boys" on Wall Street and know this, he's pissed.