By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Real estate expert Fabian Calvo says there’s more to the story about rising prices in the housing market than what’s reported by the mainstream media.  Calvo charges, “There’s a tremendous amount of manipulation . . .

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Yra Harris is called a “trader’s trader.”  He says the latest deal on Greek debt is just “pretend and extend. . . . The real problem is Spain because they’re big, they’re in debt and they have 27% unemployment.”  Everyone in the Western world is dealing with the sovereign debt mess by printing money and suppressing interest rates. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
I was thinking about titling this post “Fire Jamie Dimon.”  I changed my mind because this article is much, much bigger than Mr. Dimon.  This is really an article about the current climate of fraud, negligence and incompetence that is accepted as the new normal.  Dimon and JP Morgan Chase are just the larger-than-life faces of the profound problems that are not getting fixed. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
This week was dominated by news of former CIA Director General Petraeus’ affair that caused his abrupt resignation as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.  This dwarfs the coverage of the 9/11/12 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, where our ambassador and three others were assassinated.  Why did this happen?  Were there warning signs?  Many say yes. 

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The big story this week was Round 2 of the Presidential Debates.  Obama was on his game, but I still have to give a light edge to Romney on the pounding he gave the President on the rotten economy.  That said, I wish I could have asked a few questions of the candidates.  Here’s three I would have asked:  

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The Vice Presidential debate was this week, and it was supposed to get into the real down and dirty numbers.  Vice Presidents rarely make a difference in the outcome of a Presidential election, so who cares who won.  I am focusing on what is not said, and both parties conveniently leave out the $85 billion a month the Fed is printing to bail out bankers and suppress interest rates. 

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Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.Org says both Romney and Obama are lying about health care reform.  Denninger says drastic changes are coming no matter what, “. . . because the amount of money the federal government spends doubles every seven years . . . this is mathematically impossible.” 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
The Middle East and North Africa are on fire.  The latest blow-up happened in Pakistan where the U.S. Embassy was attacked by protestors.  There have been attacks and protests on U.S. interests in Middle East countries such as Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan and many others.  The Obama Administration says it is all because of some anti-Muslim movie, but many think it is way more about our foreign policy. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
It looks like a European financial meltdown has been pushed back.  The head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, announced a massive money printing bond buying program to keep countries like Spain and Italy from financial ruin.  One Wall Street analyst called the move “Classic Banana Republic.”  The news that is not being reported is this ECB action is not a done deal. 

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“We’re at 2008 crash levels,” says Ron Hera of Heraresearch.com.   Hera thinks, “The dollar has been artificially strong . . . the dollar is due for a sharp decline.” 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
The Financial Survival Network (FSN) invited me on to talk about the state of journalism in the mainstream media (MSM).  People are largely in the dark about what is really going on in the world today and are woefully unprepared for a coming calamity.  It’s all because of the terrible job the MSM is doing informing the public!  

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
Lots of news out this week about the silver manipulation case being dropped by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with zero action.  The first of several stories was put out by the Financial Times on Monday. 

Anselm Rothschild famously said, “Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the law.”  It looks like the bankers are taking control of the Eurozone with their latest bailout plan to “inject” printed money directly into the banks.  I guess this is one of the main reasons why Howard Buffett (Warren’s dad) said this decades ago: “The gold standard acted as a silent watchdog to prevent ‘unlimited public spending.

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
You might think the U.S. is only helping out the people of Syria with humanitarian aide.  In reality, the U.S. has been doing a lot more than that.  It has now been officially reported the U.S. is supplying weapons (through surrogates) to the Syrian rebels in a bloody civil war.  Congressman Ron Paul spelled out what has been happening on the floor of the House yesterday. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 
There has been plenty of calamitous news surrounding the European debt crisis.  Greece is insolvent.  Spain just got a big bank bailout, and Ireland wants a new bailout deal.  No matter how bad it looks in the EU, Paul Craig Roberts says the problems in Europe are “nowhere near as big as the ones here.”  The U.S. is printing massive amounts of money to paper over the mess, but it won’t work.  Roberts says a collapse of the U.S. dollar could happen at any moment.