Greg Hunter on Coast to Coast AM!

Ken Boedeker 01/25/2011  •

Why do no politicians and/or pundits have detailed plans to reduce the troublesome unemployment rate in this country? Let’s take the approach of an investigator of economic crime (for that is what really happened to jobs in this country): FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Would any observant, thinking person deny that the operatives, both elected and unelected, inside the DC Beltway are bought and paid for? There might be a few exceptions, but they’re under the radar screen of most of us in the countryside. Given that these people are doing the bidding of their campaign funders, it seems the basic question comes down to this: are the people bankrolling the American political theater creators or destroyers of well-paying American jobs? We know that the political class does the bidding of their benefactors, and we also know that many of those benefactors also become beneficiaries of the political shenanigans their employees, er elected officials, perpetrate.

Larson Von Fuqua 01/26/2011  •

Excellent job on Coast tonight Greg. That “doctor” really tried to mow you over with his rambling nonsense every time you presented the ugly reality of our situation. That guy needs to learn some manners. Any listener could quickly see through his pathetic bullying and oral assaults. Thanks for representing the unfortunate truth in the face of that blowhard charlatan.

Tony 01/26/2011  •

Hi Greg, I’ve been visiting you’re website for sometime now. You make the most sense of anyone i’ve read.
Caught you on the radio tonight, I’m afraid you’re counter part just didn’t measure up.

I have many questions, but i will try to be short. When this other person on the radio said the government has always done this, I believe he was right.
What I don’t understand is why can’t they keep this up. It seems to me , the economy must fail eventually, but why now? Can’y they keep up this fraud for 10 more years! Must it fail in the next 1 or 2?

We surely have some breaking point in the future, but i’m not near smart enough to figure out when?

Why must it happen very soon?

Tony

Kevin 01/26/2011  •

Tonight’s C2C session was reminiscent of the many MSM Schiff interviews prior bubble pop (youtube Peter Schiff was Right). Truth muted by ignorance and arrogance…and patent lies. Ultimately, Schiff was proven right…as will Greg.

Dr. Curtis continues the Keynesian, status quo mantra. Unbelievable. The debt slaves are no longer buying it, which was demonstrated by the caller’s statements.

Additionally, I love the Noory, but feel sometimes he is at the wrong interview. He interjects with odd, untimely statements/questions at times. Let the discussion play out George…. Nevertheless, thanks for the exposure.

Greg, I’d suggest a better phone line next time. It seemed that the doctor got the upper hand once or twice only because he had a stronger line.

Thank you for what you do Greg. I’m so grateful that we have the Watchdog to tell the truth to the American people. Forceful, unabashed truth…yeah!!!

God Bless

Manuel Ruiz 01/26/2011  •

I want to thank you for speaking the truth about the State of the Union on Coast to Coast tonight. Hopefully more people will wake up to the fact that we cant spend our way out of this mess that we are in. What the government is doing is just prolonging the inevitable.

Jean 01/26/2011  •

I remember last summer you predicted that the economy would crash in Oct but we’re still here. Now you’re saying it will be this year in June. How can anyone predict what unstable people in power will do and how it will look? Some are warning about how populations will be “downsized” as in “killed off” by the elites. Yet, we are still here, at least for now.

Gary 01/26/2011  •

Greg,

I listened to the first hour of C2C this morning and must admit I did laugh a bit at the commentary. The only criticism I have of you is that you let your emotions play too much of a role ( as I would in you position). You continued to present facts and the Dr. would say “…would you like to have it another way?”.

It doesn’t have anything to do with what you want…it’s about reading the warning signs!!!!!

Its hard to work on a solution when people like the Dr. are in denial, along with the President and most of Congress.

Most people in America look at the economy as cyclical…that if things are bad now, they will get better shortly. Unfortunatly we are actually in an evolution….evolving to something not good.

I am sad to admit, I do not try to convince people anymore. Most do not want to hear it. They rather hear that you thoughtfully reviewed everything and determined that things will be better right around the corner. Let’s face it there are plenty of pundits that spin this garbage, because they either don’t see it or they don’t want to be the one to say “the sky is falling”.

Good luck, Greg. You will eventually be proven right, but that is of little consequence.

Jonaton 01/26/2011  •

Listening to Coast to Coast last night and was somewhat amused at the amount of energy expelled on the subject of money. Do you not all realize that it is merely paper, even less, numbers in a computer. The only value that it is given is in the minds of men, for it truly has no “real” value. If the fake, and yes it is fake, economy fails completely it is the absolute best thing that could happen. You are all slaves to something so meaningless, so worthless, yet you defend it. Do you not want to be freed from slavery? Why do any of you care if the government is 14.5 trillion or 900 trillion in debt? It surely doesn’t matter! It is only a meaningless number to something that never existed in the first place! Wake up slaves!

Art Barnes 01/26/2011  •

Greg, the bully and his friends are fighting hard to keep their position in society, they like being top dog while the middle class erodes to the working poor paying most of the taxes while they live rich – but they now realize their game is being exposed and they are scared. You kept your composure and had the facts, the elite and their hackmen hate that!

1,000,000 new bankruptcy filings in 2011 I think was said staggering figure for 360,000 million people in one year.

Now, lets coin another new term, “the printing stops here” and I got the first t-shirt. From the Western Front, A.B.

Jennifer 01/26/2011  •

Hi Greg,
This is my first visit to USAWatchdog, as a response to your C2C interview. While there is much ado about “transparency,” it appears the establishment, including Dr. Curtis, covers up fast and furious like a cat in a litter box, when faced with facts and figures. How they can keep saying we are in recovery when they cannot substantiate it? Here in Nevada, our unemployment rate is said to be about 14%…wonder how that equates using the ’94 formula you mentioned last night? Nevada is in serious trouble and the new Governor Sandoval, who gave his State of the State on Monday, appears to have pushed much of the debt problems off on the troubled counties. Thanks for your input.

Sam 01/26/2011  •

Dear Greg,

Listened to you last night after I saw the head’s up on your site.

I was a bit disappointed. I mean, you look so much TALLER in your photos than you do on the radio! ;-D

Seriously, I thought the Ph.D. George had paired you with was a joke. Claiming that disparities with FASB rules happens “all the time?” When I was in school, FASB was held sacrosanct, they were THE accounting rules. When the rules were “changed” during the latter half of the Bush years, and then more frequently under Obama, I stopped keeping up with them, as I had lost faith with them. And, the way the “doctor” kept trying to “talk down” to you just because of his “superior” degree!

Getting on to the SOTUS itself, I see that the usurper wants to take the tax break off of the “rich” again. Greg, I am a single proprietorship, as are the majority of small businesses in this country. According to the IRS, our personal income and business income are INTERTWINED. I could make a million bucks in a year, but because of expenses, I am NOT taxed on gross profit, nor on the minuscule net (which this poor old sod has to live off on), but on GROSS INCOME. Translation: we small businesses are forced to pay far more than our “fair share.” We really need a break here, but the clown-in-chief, who was too good for even a paper route, does not understand any of this. Neither do his fellow liberals, nor the bureaucrats under the lot. Businesspeople, especially SMALL businesspeople, are “rich,” and “crooks.” All I can do is respond with, “Look in the mirror!”

Joel 01/26/2011  •

Greg,

Fantastic job last night! You really got my blood pumping and I couldn’t get back to sleep for like an hour! I think you really did drive home serious points and really nailed it with the Fed’s POMO operations which are proping up everything from Treasuries to the Stock Market. You don’t get that news unless you’re an avid Zerohedge.com reader. Do you read Zerohedge at all and would you be more willing to please promote the perpetual ponzi more for the American people when the opportunity comes up again? I think it’s critical more American’s know!

Thank you and great work mate!

Dr. Neal J. Houston 01/26/2011  •

Greg,
I just listened to you and John Curtis on Coast To Coast… I APPLAUD you…thank you for speaking the truth about the State of the Union…
Many Thanks
Dr. Neal

C.S.N. 01/26/2011  •

Hi Greg,
Mid-70’s, older white woman here;
Had been a staunch Republican my whole life.

When party selected John McCain, & Rush Limbaugh began his Operation Chaos, urging Repubs to vote for Hillary Clinton in Dem-primary, in order to defeat Sen. Barack Obama, it was so sickening to me, I’m now an Independent.

To me, President Obama is a decent man, doing as well as anyone ELSE could be doing as President, with the mess he inherited from over 8 years of Republicans running up the deficit.

PLUS an Economic collapse, which was “solved” by Republican President Bush & his Sec.of Treasury Paulson’s TARP……why blame it all on President Obama now???.

Republicans started two UNFUNDED wars, & put though two UNFUNDED “Medicare Advantage”, & Medicare Part “D” Drug programs, WITHOUT any off-setting Income to Federal Government, as in raising enough Income Tax to PAY for those wars & programs.
(Which programs “economic-hawk” Paul Ryan voted YES for…)

NOW “Teapublicans” have come along with indignant ire….
Where were they for prior years of Republicans running up deficit???

We now have a Corporation-run Congress, due to Supreme Court “Citizens’ United” decision.
Dick Army’s Freedom Watch funded tea-party buses, Koch Brothers funded tea-party activities.
Tea-people are used as Corporate puppets…
It is all very depressing.

Arash Diamond 01/26/2011  •

Hello Mr. Hunter,

I had listened to C2C last night, and I just wanted to let you know that your point of view was accurate and you indeed won that debate [v. Curtis]. My knowledge base is not as vast as yours regarding the economy, but am very interested in educating myself. I am a daily visitor to USAWatchdog, which is fascinating, but could you please recommend 5 books for this university student to read.

Also, could you please comment [and/or recommend readings] on the Canadian banking system and the inherent corruption therein.

Your friend and supporter from Toronto,

Arash.

Will 01/26/2011  •

Greg, you did an excellent job, considering you are like a voice in the wilderness. The comment Cheryl Cascone on Fox Bus made, “Gold is so last year” makes me wonder if they have been given marching orders by the big banks and Washington to generate a “hey, things are looking really good again, why not jump back into the market?” It seems to be working, they want people to start feeling the wealth effect so they start spending and creating a need for goods and then it’s all sunshine and roses. This is what they are thinking, right?

brent 01/26/2011  •

I happened to miss the show last night but I really wanted to hear it and I found it on youtube. Here are the links to anyone else who missed it:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsCnyUlVWI

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ11s9L5F-4

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSECuqbkLTk

By the way Greg, great website. I just found this site a few days ago and I am glad I did.

Liz 01/27/2011  •

For anyone new visiting this site and waking up to the notion that we are headed for more Economic pain financially, let me tell you a brief story. Back in Dec 2007 I started listening to Coast to Coast for the first time. I listen to the podcasts the next day since I go to bed by 11:00pm and I’m on the East coast. Anyway, thank god I did because they had people on the show that were really talking about what was going to happen to the economy etc. Greg was one of them as well. There was one particular guest that stuck out as well – Gerald Celente. For some reason he really jolted my perspective . Back then there was a big part of me that would hear guests on C2C talk about a “crash” etc and the rational side of me was like “I don’t know about that” maybe these guests are a little too doom and gloom for their own good. But then there was a small part of me that said “what if they are right?”.
Well just for the heck of it I decided in Jan of 2008, as my New Year’s resolution, I would get myself completely out of debt – no car payment, no credit card debt etc. and I would even try and save a little. I figured what the heck, if those guests on C2C get it completely wrong, then who cares because I’ll be better off anyway right? Well my plan worked and by Aug 2008 I had all my debt paid off. I didn’t have much of the savings I wanted, but at least I was completely debt free and damn it felt good! I even ripped up the credit cards, except for one which to this day I never carry a balance on. So can you imagine my amazement when the very next month – Sept of 2008 – and the Financial Crisis made headlines! I was like “holly shi&”! Those guest on C2C were right!! I guess what I’m trying to say here is that I know sometimes the Guest on C2C and Greg Hunter’s site can make your head spin and even make you a bit scared, but take it to heart and do some planning and you’ll be better off in the long run. I have to say that I’m a lot better off for “planning for the worst “ then if I did nothing at all. Plus, as an added bonus, it makes you reevaluate what is really important in your life.  Love your Blog Greg! Keep up the good fight!

Glenn 01/27/2011  •

Greg, I think the ‘Dr.’ works at my local bank. I recently went in to see him along with my 77 yr old mother to pull out her GIC that matured yielding a whopping 0.87% per yr. As I have been living and working overseas for the past 2 yrs I wanted to find a better rate of return for dear ‘ol mom. I told the ‘Dr’ that I had opened a precious metals account and was going to deposit the lump sum of her funds from the GIC, $39,000 Cdn, and wait for gold and silver’s pullback and then jump in with both feet. Obviously, he didn’t take to kindly to that direction and then proceded to tell me how well the economy was doing of late. I think the ‘Dr’ needs to take his pulse. Great job trying to school the Doc Greg, but I got a feeling he isn’t listening.

Bruce 01/28/2011  •

Hi Greg,
Thanks for standing for truth! I did not detect any undue emotional level in your arguments. People, if you are not emotional about losing our way of life, what is it that will wake you up?
Bruce
Portland, Oregon

David 01/29/2011  •

Greg,
I have been reading your articles since I saw them on jsmineset.
(Jim Sinclair is one smart guy).Thank you for having the courage to sound your voice of reason in this wacked out world.It is obvious that you have a moral foundation which gives you a huge advantage over the Dr. Curtis fellow.
Wow, he sounds like he got his economic training at the Fed. A professor of MOPE (management of perspective economics)for certain. He would have us believe that all we need to do, to be #1 in the world is to borrow money from China and pump up the DOW. Problem solved!!

Empire 01/31/2011  •

What’s does the “Dr.” have a PHD in?

First of all – The guy couldn’t let you get a word in edgewise. Instant turn off! – And then hes just got this crunchy, Hippy’esk attitude about everything that REALLY turns me off to him – Plus, He’s the type of douchebag that cant admit when hes just plain wrong and living in a fantasy land with his so called “PHD”. Doctor, just admit you have no f’n clue what your on about. Please… just be a man and fess up and say “Yeah, your right Greg, you’ve got a good point there…” – Enough with the “Hot Air” and “Douchebaggery” – Did I just make up a word? If I did, its fitting for that clown shoes wearing Dr. – Just because you payed for your PHD doesnt make you an actual doctor. Doctors fix things, your not fixing anything Mr. Curtis, nor are you admitting theres even a problem.

I for one, appreciate your emotional state of mind in the interview, Greg – That’s the true sign of someone who is passionate and CARES about what is going on. The doctor sounds like he just ate a couple of pot brownies and hes on some stoned rambling nonsense where he really believe his own BS and doesn’t want to hear anyone else’s opinion! That’s what stoners do – They have no interest in anything or anyone but themselves and the drivel they spew out.

Thanks again Greg! Even when you spell it out for people – they still dont get it… /facepalm