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The views here come from traditional mainstream sources and also from the alternative media. Interviews will come from people who manage money, former government officials and financial analysts. Some of the people in this section who have been interviewed include former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Robert Shiller, Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, $8 billion fund manager Eric Sprott, Professor William Black, gold expert Jim Sinclair, best-selling authors Nomi Prins, James Rickards and many more experts.
The interviews and information provided here are usually in direct opposition of the views in the mainstream media. Oftentimes, market analysis and political analysis overlap. The content and interviews here are for information purposes only and should not be considered investment advice.
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
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The “you know what” hit the fan today with sharp selloffs of just about everything. The Dow was off nearly 400 points–ouch! So much for the so-called “recovery.” Gold made a significant comeback after being down nearly $80
A few weeks ago, the Telegraph UK did a story about the sharp drop in foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries. One of the big buyers of American debt is, of course, China. There are those that think China is forced to buy our
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said yesterday that European states “are going to have to do more” to solve their enormous debt troubles. To that I ask, “more” of what? That can only be “more” money printing. Mark my
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Largarde, said Friday the world economy is entering a “dangerous new phase.” Lagarde is referring to a debt bubble, the likes of which the planet has never seen before,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last Friday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency filed lawsuits against 17 of the largest banks and financial institutions in the world. FHFA is seeking a total of $196 billion in restitution from these institutions for not disclosing
Last week, the Federal Reserve announced that it was not starting a third round of money printing (QE3). (Don’t worry, it is only a matter of time before the money printing will begin again in earnest.) Fed Chief Ben Bernanke put that
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com If there is one central theme to the ongoing financial crisis we face, it is an insolvent banking system. It is so bad that the accounting rules were changed (after the financial meltdown in 2008) to allow
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In the internet world, it is said the two year mark is one of the most important milestones. My internet consultant tells me, “nobody takes you seriously until after your second anniversary.” I put USAWatchdog.com on line
The debt downgrade of the U.S. debt has caused much calamity and confusion. The stock market has sold off several hundred points since S&P took the action earlier this month. Is it a big deal? You bet, but it is not the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It was another 400 point loss on the Dow today. Manufacturing is contracting according to the latest reports, and Europe is in very big trouble with sovereign debt (especially with Spain and Italy). If the Euro falls
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The decision by the Fed, last week, to keep a key interest rate at near zero percent for 2 years is historic because the Fed has never done this before. This action will have profound negative effect
Even though silver and gold are both up around 25% for the year, silver has been lagging gold’s recent spike. Plenty of folks have been asking what’s going on. In the big picture, what is happening is fiat money is in
