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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.
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I, and many others, have said when it comes to the economy, nothing has been fixed. I thought Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke underscored that fact when he spoke yesterday in Washington D.C. for the Joint Economic Committee.
With the nearly 260 point drubbing the Dow took yesterday I thought it would be a good time to roll out a post on short selling. Sure, some of this is generated by folks simply sell because of sovereign debt fears
By Greg hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I keep hammering away at the fact the Fed doled out $16 trillion in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. This is an enormous sum that is greater than the all goods and services produced
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Just about everywhere you turned yesterday, the mainstream media (MSM) was talking up the good news in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index report. For example, the online version of USA Today had a headline that read “Spring
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (revised and corrected) It looks like what I said yesterday was not accurate. I said that Alessio Rastani was a professional trader. In reality, this so-called trader in the video is much more of a talker than a trader. I and
