“In 2008, we’re going to see some major, giant financial firms fall as they get hit by an economic 9/11.” That’s what Gerald Celente, Editor of The Trends Journal told me in a December 21, 2007, interview only two weeks before bad Wall Street news about Countrywide Bank, Merrill Lynch, American Express and other companies in a cash crunch that plunged the Dow steeply downward.