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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com     In December of 1997, the National Center for Policy Analysis ran this headline on their website “Social Security Problems Accelerating.”  The article stated, “A recent General Accounting Office report warns that the long-term prospects for the Social

By Gene Tunney  Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   If you are my age, you know that the title is from a 1971 song by The Who titled “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”  I was certainly fooled in the last Presidential election.

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   Whistleblower Harry Markopolos is on the stump promoting his new book titled “No One Would Listen.” It is about how it took 8 ½ years for the Securities and Exchange Commission to crack down on the Bernie

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    The Congressional Budget Office says Health Care reform will Cost $1 trillion over the next 10 years.  The White House says it will “save “money.  Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said just a few days ago the tab

By Gene Tunney  Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   You and I are in the Taxpayer Club. We are the working class of America; you know, the part that has to pay for the stimulus programs and Wall Street bailouts. We are

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   It appeared one of the President’s top economic advisors, Larry Summers, was trying to do a preemptive strike against what may be some bad unemployment numbers.  If unemployment is up, blame harsh winter weather!  John Williams, an

By Brian Sussman Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I love working in talk radio; the audience is so smart it’s scary. President Obama’s 2010 budget had just been released, when, at the conclusion of a broadcast, a passionate caller named

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Many people I talk to and hear from are having a really hard time grasping how severe the real estate crisis is in America.  Let me sum up how bad the problem  is in one simple  sentence. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  It looks like the Haiti quake in January was just the warm-up act to the giant 8.8 magnitude shaker that hit Chile.   It one of the largest quakes on record.   This could not come at a worse time

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com     Have you ever heard someone say they saved money by buying something on sale?  An example would be saving $200 by spending $400 dollars on a new set of golf clubs that were on sale for 33%

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    This week, a North Carolina newspaper headline read “Beauty Queens Feeling Squeeze of Economy.”  It was a story about how pageant contestants are cutting costs by wearing dresses more than once.  Some contestants are also selling old dresses

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I was on the nationwide overnight radio show, Coast to Coast AM, last week to talk about the real estate crisis.  The topic of foreclosures naturally came up, and I told people to make sure you ask the

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   The Federal Reserve raised the discount rate yesterday to 3/4% from 1/2%.  That’s the interest rate the Fed charges banks in an emergency.  The Fed insisted that rates for consumers and companies would not rise.  So why

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    There has been some encouraging news about the real estate market recently.  In San Francisco, real estate prices shot back up 16% according to the Case-Shiller Index.  On the other coast, friends of mine in the New

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Congressman Ron Paul put out a startling warning  video just over a week ago.  This tells me things must be getting really messy right now.