By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Analyst/trader Karl Denninger thinks the Federal Reserve’s $3 trillion balance sheet could blow up the economy.  The Fed is adding $85 billion to it every month!  Denninger says, “The larger the balance sheet gets, the more powder Bernanke is piling into the brick house.  So, instead of a firecracker, he’s got a great big bomb in there now.” 

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Analyst Gregory Mannarino is worried about the out of control debt in America.  Mannarino says, “The United States is already in technical default regarding its debt because if it were not for the Fed buying all this debt, we’d be in actual default, which is coming.”  When the bond market bubble blows up, Mannarino thinks, “People are going to be destroyed here—destroyed from a financial standpoint.” 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Money manager Peter Schiff predicts, “We are headed for a monetary crisis, a dollar crisis. . . . Money supplies are going to explode, and gold supplies are going to be constricted.”  According to Schiff, that means only one thing, “The price of gold has one way to go in the long term, and that is up.” 

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Eric Sprott manages $10 billion, and he’s worried about the global financial system.  He says, “There is this huge chaos going on in the financial business which I think we all sense.  They are using desperate measures here to hold it together. . . . at some point it blows.  There’s no doubt about it.” 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
The big story this week was the State of the Union address by the President and the rebuttals.  Please note “rebuttals” plural.  Everyone knows Senator Marco Rubio, but not much coverage was given to Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. 

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Legendary trader Yra Harris says, “The currency wars are real, and the game is on.”  Harris says the global currency war is what helped Volkswagen gain market share in the last few years.  So, what is Japan doing? 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “I think we have three of the biggest bubbles in history.  The bond market, stock market and the U.S. dollar . . . and something is going to go.” 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
The John Brennan CIA confirmation hearing is raising questions about waterboarding and drone strikes that include targeting U.S. citizens abroad.  Many Democrats have been up in arms about the use of torture, but not much has been said about killing terror targets with drones.  The White house says, “The strikes are legal, ethical and wise.”   Opponents of drone strikes say killing people this way is unconstitutional, especially when it comes to targeting Americans. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Real estate expert Fabian Calvo says, “There’s a lot of manipulation from government agencies and the Fed that is creating this rise in asset prices . . . but it is all an illusion.”  Calvo’s company, TheNoteHouse.us, buys and sells $100 million in distressed debt a year. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Top trends researcher Gerald Celente pulls no punches when he predicts, “The world is going to war.”  Celente says what is happening today happened before, prior to World War II. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
The Middle East and North Africa are hot and getting hotter in terms of war and conflict.  Pick a country from Mali to Egypt or Yemen to Syria; there are wars and rumors of war.  Israel jet fighters attacked a convoy in Syria this week.  Israel says it was missiles to be used against Israel.