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Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Congress held multiple hearings this week on what happened in the bankruptcy of MF Global. At least $1.2 billion in customer funds are missing, and none of the top executives, including Jon Corzine, knows anything.  Some are finding

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Earlier today, I wrote a hopeful article about how the language in the “Indefinite Detention” bill (otherwise know as National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA) might be changed to not gut the Bill of Rights. I was way

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Not everyone in Congress thinks it is a good idea to pass a law that will allow indefinite detention of U.S. citizens.  Senator Mike Lee and Representative Justin Amash think the Senate version of the National Defense

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Economist Dennis Gartman announced in his newsletter, yesterday, that he has sold all of his gold.  I don’t know if it was physical or paper gold in an ETF (exchange traded fund), but it is gone.  According

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I watched in amazement today at the Senate Hearing on the collapse of MF Global about 6 weeks ago.  The three top executives testified about what they knew and when they knew it.  CEO Jon Corzine, COO Bradley

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  “Disintegration.”  That’s the word both billionaire George Soros and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have recently used to describe what’s going on with the European economic crisis.  It is really a solvency crisis for the big banks there,

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  There was a big meeting in Europe this week to try and find a solution to the sovereign debt crisis.  The fate of the European Union hangs in the balance.  French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, “Never has

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  The recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Bill 1867), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Bill,” should scare the heck out of anyone who loves the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  This

This weekend 60 Minutes finally did a story about the fact that zero high ranking prosecutions have taken place in the wake of the financial meltdown.  I guess as far as CBS is concerned it is better late than never.  My

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  More Europe bailout news. Last week, the world was elated with news that the Federal Reserve and five other central banks got together to prop up Eurozone banks drowning on sour sovereign debt, but the crisis is far

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  It’s official.  America is now committed to bailing out Europe—again.  The Federal Reserve announced, this week, it would use something called  dollar “swaps” to give EU banks cheap easy money to keep their banks from imploding under

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  The European Union is frantically trying to come up with a plan to fix the debt crisis that is threatening to cause a worldwide financial calamity.  It seems every day there’s a new idea to save the

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I have never seen, in all my time, so many people holding signs on street corners asking for money, food and work.  My wife spotted a couple in their forties living in their car in the middle

By Greg Hunter’s USAWAtchdog.com  It looks like the EU is getting a bailout from the IMF that could be nearly $800 billion.  Gold is going straight up, and I am sure global stock markets will also surge on the bailout news. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Happy Black Friday!  I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! The Occupy Wall Street protesters are trying to derail the busiest shopping day of the year by telling people not to shop.  I do not understand