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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The second round of quantitative easing (QE2) is scheduled to end June 30, and already there are calls for more financial stimulus to keep the economy from falling off a cliff.  The latest call came from Larry

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It seems the mainstream media (MSM) is waking up from its long sleep.  The dream world of “green shoots” and “recovery” is fading into staggering unemployment and plunging home prices.  Most of us in the real word

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I am going to be putting a new segment on the site called  the Weekly News Wrap-up.  I will  be highlighting the important news you need to be watching.  I will not be covering things such as Anthony Weiner and his lewd

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I have been saying repeatedly that the one thing you can count on is inflation.  If you take housing out of the picture, that is exactly what we have been getting.  The Fed wants inflation and loathes

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com There are plenty of folks flocking to the internet these days to tell the world why gold and, particularly, silver are finished as an investment and wealth protection opportunity.  Some are even screaming to sell now before

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Remember back in early-2009, when the mainstream media (MSM) started with the ridiculous “green shoots” talking point?  Even though the data were dismal and there were no signs of the economy recovering, the “green shoots” term was used by

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdeog.com I have been telling you the economy is not in any kind of real recovery for more than a year.  Sources I have been quoting have been proven right, and all the economic cheerleaders dead wrong.  Reuters reported

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was out eating with my wife this weekend and saw a veteran getting out of a car with a Purple Heart on his license plate.  After my meal, as I was walking by his table, I

When I was coming up in the TV reporting business, “60 Minutes” on CBS was the pinnacle of TV news.  I was lucky enough to make it to the networks (ABC and CNN) and now run my own site on the

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I have been sour on real estate since I sold my home in Florida in 2006.  Back then, I predicted home prices were headed for a crash.  Many people thought I was crazy for saying it.  Today,

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com President Barack Obama drew some harsh criticism from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, after his comment last week to return to the 1967 borders.  Like it or not, the President is trying to jump start

I think banks are a necessary evil, but banks do not necessarily have to BE evil.  There is a school of thought developing that banks should be more like public utilities and simply serve the public. There is a move underfoot

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com America went off the gold standard in 1971 when Richard Nixon closed the “gold window.” That meant the U.S. didn’t have to pay foreigners with gold, only dollars.  President Nixon created the first world reserve currency that

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com New inflation figures were released by the government last week, and the news was not good.  The headline inflation number was 3.2% in the 12 months that ended in April.  That is more than a percent above

Many people think that there is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans, but I think there’s not much difference at all.  I have long said, the left and the right are really one body with two heads–they just take turns ripping