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I have long said the trouble in the U.S. economy will all eventually boil down to a currency crisis. Meaning, the dollar is going to lose a whole lot more buying power before this chapter in American history is over. This
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said 200,000 new jobs were created which dropped the unemployment rate to 8.5%. Break out the party hats and champagne, we’ve finally hit bottom and are heading back up! That’s
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Over the last several days, I began hearing a new description of the economy by the mainstream media (MSM)—“turnaround.” I can’t tell you how many different ways this phrase was used, but it was enough to get
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I think most people are simply oblivious to the enormous dangers the world economy faces. Oh, I think we will all get through Christmas and New Years without a meltdown, but all bets are off in 2012.
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
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,
