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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 Gold hit an all-time high this week—again. The yellow metal briefly topped $1,500 an ounce before falling back down a few dollars. The world has become increasingly nervous about the size of the growing U.S. debt. Just
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Gold hit another all-time high yesterday, closing well over $1,450 per ounce. Silver’s closing price of more than $39 per ounce is the highest it has been in 31 years. Why the big jump in gold and
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last Friday, I wrote a piece called “Could America be Pushed over the Economic Edge?” It was about how Libya, Japan or even covert economic warfare (from America’s enemies) could push the U.S. into another financial meltdown.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It’s official. The U.S. transferred command of the Libyan no-fly-zone to NATO yesterday, but don’t think that ends U.S. involvement. Crienglish.com is reporting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be heading to London next week to discuss
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last Friday, the Federal Reserve announced it completed its so-called Fed stress test on 19 of the country’s largest banks. Improved financial health allows some banks to “increase or restart dividend payments, buy back shares, or repay
The world looked like a scary place yesterday for gold and silver investors. There was a lot of talk about a global economic slowdown. The price of oil dropped, and gold and silver sold off. In the grand scheme of things,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com This weekend, violence continued to erupt in the Middle East. In Libya, the Gaddafi government launched counter attacks against the rebels. Many fear there is a full blown civil war brewing in that oil rich country. Yemeni
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (revised) In Guilford County, North Carolina, the Register of Deeds, Jeff Thigpen, is questioning if his county was cheated out of more than a million dollars real estate fees because banks did not file proper chain of ownership
What is going on in the Middle East is breathtaking and frightening at the same time. The unrest and outright middle east revolution is not going to be a pathway to peace and prosperity. Libya is sliding into a bloody civil
Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/national-debt-clock”>National Debt Clock</a> widget and many other <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/”>great free widgets</a> at <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com”>Widgetbox</a>! Not seeing a widget? (<a href=”http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/”>More info</a>)By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Revised) Saturday, the House of Representatives passed legislation with more than $60 billion of budget
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (updated) The government released a nasty little inflation rate surprise yesterday. Prices increased .4% in January, which was 33.3% higher than the expected .3% increase. It should come as no surprise to anyone who fills up at a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com If you believe government inflation rate numbers, inflation is 1.2%, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI.) That’s how much prices rose last year. Last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified in front of the Republican controlled
You can write volumes on what is actually wrong with the economy. We have record foreclosures, the FDIC closing banks every weekend, high unemployment, enormous deficits, food banks running out of money, sour mortgage-backed securities and the list goes on and
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In November 2010, the Federal Reserve announced a second round of economic stimulus commonly referred to as Quantitative Easing (QE2). The reason, according to the Fed, was “progress toward its objectives has been disappointingly slow.” So, to
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Housing starts are a tried and true barometer of business activity. If there was a real economic recovery going on, housing starts would be, at the very least, edging up. Please keep in mind the government is
