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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 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 Something a little different today. I have three videos for you to watch. The first features a guy named Eddie Hobbs. He is a financial planner and expert from Ireland. In recent weeks, some of my stories have
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com At the beginning of this month, the G20 met in France to try to find a way to solve the European sovereign debt crisis. It ended with world leaders in disarray over a way to come up
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was a guest on the nationwide radio show Coast to Coast Am last week, and a listener commented that, at one point, “it sounded like” I said “death-ficits” when talking about the European debt crisis. The commenter
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The most pressing problem on the planet right now is the European sovereign debt crisis. It is a gigantic highly leveraged mess caused by greedy reckless bankers. It was nurtured with the help of regulators who turned
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com What is going on in the world today is both frightening and historic. It is frightening because the amount of debt accumulated is orders of magnitude more than ever before. It is historic because the way this
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com On Monday, I said at the end of my post, “I think someday we will “grow” our way out of the economic mess we are in but not before a very big fall.” I didn’t think the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, the government announced the economy (gross domestic product, GDP) grew at a 2.5% rate. The mainstream media (MSM) hailed this as some significant turnaround. Businessweek.com reported, “Buoyed by a resurgent consumer and strong business investment,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com When I first heard of the deal to fix the European debt crisis, I thought, “Is the EU Sovereign Debt Problem Really Fixed?” This is a complicated solution and mainly addresses sour Greek debt. Bankers are supposed
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was surprised to see the Dow only off a few hundred points yesterday considering all the problems European Union finance ministers are having getting a sovereign debt rescue plan together. A 200 point loss on the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The meeting yesterday in Europe to come up with a plan to stem the sovereign debt crisis turned sour. Zero was accomplished, except to put even more fear into the world over an impending financial meltdown that
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The U.S. stock market surged yesterday on news the European Union (EU) would deploy a two trillion euro rescue fund to help get its sovereign debt crisis under control. This news was so good even battered Bank
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com When? That’s the question that is on the minds of people following the economy. When will the “you know what” hit the fan and we start another global meltdown. I am not going to string you along.
