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By James Howard Kunstler Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com         Just when America was celebrating the provisional end of BP’s Macondo oil blowout, and getting back to important issues like Kim Kardashian’s body-suit collection, along comes Matthew Simmons

 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I wanted to do a little more on the coming plight of the U.S. dollar.  I received this comment from a reader named Billhopen who wrote, “Inflation???  you go to lengths quoting Karl Denninger (Market Ticker) who

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   I have been saying for months the path the country will ultimately take will be the inflation path.  Yes, I know we have had some deflationary signs in the past.  The financial meltdown of 2008 would have

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    There is hardly a day goes by I don’t hear some spin about the economy and how the so-called “recovery” is progressing.  Last week’s job numbers is a classic example.  It seems the jobless claims fell to

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    I got this rather nasty email from a reader who identified himself with only an email address.  So, I am going to identify this person with the first part of the address, which is Jdavidm24.  Here is

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    I was sitting here trying to find a way to wrap up the week and then, like a bolt of lightning, an idea hit me.  Gold expert Jim Sinclair sent me this story: “Federal Budget Deficit Hits

  By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  I have been telling you for months there is going to be a double dip in the economy.  Nobel Prize Winning economist Paul Krugman also thinks the economy is so bad we need to keep on stimulating

By Greg Hunter’sUSAWatchdog.com I was interviewed by Max Keiser in Europe last week.  For the 4th of July holiday on Monday the 5th, I am posting part three of a three part interview. 

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The President gave a speech on immigration reform yesterday.  One of the most outrageous things the President said, “The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years.” Please, Mr. President,

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    Last week, at the G20 meeting in Toronto, there was much discussion about money printing for bailouts and cutbacks for austerity.  These were the two main options talked about to deal with the economic malaise facing the

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    The much awaited financial reform bill was finished up in an overnight marathon House and Senate committee session last week.  Now it appears there is a holdup in the Senate because of the $19 billion bank tax

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Respected banking analyst Meredith Whitney dropped a bomb on CNBC at the beginning of the week by saying, “Unequivocally, I see a double-dip in housing.  There’s no doubt about it . . . prices are going down

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The possibility of a BP bankruptcy because of the ongoing Gulf oil spill is very real.  Since the oil spill disaster on April 20, the company’s share price has been cut in half.  BP has lost $90 billion

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, three stories acted as signposts for the direction of the U.S. Dollar value.  The first is about a letter President Obama sent to members of the G20 (Group of 20 major industrial countries) in advance of

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com    It’s not exactly the kind of audit Congressmen Ron Paul and Alan Grayson wanted in their original legislation, but it looks like their wish to peel away some of the Federal Reserve’s secret deals in lending and