Should Have Listened to Gerald Celente, Mr. T

Mr. T is stocking up on gold...and Snickers bars.

In March 2009 I co-wrote a piece in FORBES magazine called Doomsday Investing. Penned in the depths of The Great Recession, the story offered a few ways investors might make money if the dire downturn were to continue: sin stocks, Swiss francs and gold. But, I warned, limit the extreme defensive plays to 10% of your portfolio.

For that story I interviewed a woman named Laura Martin who works for Gerald Celente, the ultra-bearish publisher of...