From 1973 to 1979, Celente traveled between the major US cities of Chicago, Illinois and the United states capital, Washington, D.C. as a government affairs specialist.

[1][non-primary source needed] Hugo Lindgren and ABC News have labelled Celente's predictions "pessimism porn" for their stark pessimism and for the imagined/alleged eschatological "thrill" or opportunity some people might receive from imagining his predictions of the collapse of civil society in the wake of a global economic crisis.

[citation needed] He was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV talk-shows such as Fox News Sunday and Glenn Beck's television program.

[citation needed] In April 2009 Celente wrote, "Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds.

Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in perpetual intellectual subjugation.