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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.
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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
A while back, I made a prediction that something bad was going to happen before the end of 2011. I think the recent stock market plunge qualifies as “something bad.” Where have all the trillions of dollars gone from the stock
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com You have to respect the power of the Federal Reserve when just a statement can turn the entire stock market around in a day. Yesterday, the Fed admitted the economy was not good and in a statement
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Brace for Impact.” I have thought about this economic collapse title for months. I held onto it and figured I would know when the right time was to put it out there. Today is the day. Watching mainstream
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Today’s 500 plus point sell-off is pretty self-explanatory against a world-wide rout in stocks. The world is deeply in debt, and there is no quick fix. Europe and America are slowing down and taking the rest of the
There have been a lot of naysayers when it comes to the gold bull market we are in right now. I don’t see how anyone can deny it exists, but many who missed it, now say gold is in a bubble.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In April, 14 of the nation’s biggest banks promised federal regulators they would stop robo-signing documents to foreclose on homes. This was part of a settlement to clean up the foreclosure mess caused by wild lending of
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, in testimony on Capitol Hill, Fed Chief Ben Bernanke said, “The pace of the economic recovery will pick up.” As far as the weak economy is concerned, Mr. Bernanke also said there would be, “a notably
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com If the debt ceiling deal wasn’t complicated enough, Friday’s terrible unemployment report poured sand into the gears that ground negotiations to a halt. Nothing came out of Sunday’s meeting of Congressional leaders at the White House on
