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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.
The President is kicking off another new jobs creation campaign this week. He has just proposed spending more than $50 billion on infrastructure over the next six years and $300 billion in business tax cuts and credits for the future. The
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Headlines released after a better than expected jobs report painted a very optimistic picture. Bloomberg’s headline read “Recession Concerns Ease on August Jobs Data.” The story said, “Companies in the U.S. added more jobs than forecast in
The following article was written by James Howard Kunstler. Mr Kunstler wrote a book in 2008 about post-oil America called “World Made By Hand.” Fossil fuel and issues surrounding it are a natural fit for this writer. He wrote the article
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Second quarter GDP growth numbers were revised down last week to a paltry 1.6% from 2.4%. Wall Street celebrated because some were expecting “growth” to be revised even lower. The stock market shot up on this news, but
The following article was written by James Howard Kunstler, I thought this would be a nice follow to Monday’s post “When Will Financial Armageddon Begin?” My take on this excellent piece–big changes are baked into the cake already. The US economic crisis
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com A little more than two years ago, economist John Williams of shadowstats.com predicted a “severe recession” was coming and soon. At the time, I was working as an investigative correspondent for CNN. I interviewed Williams for a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Monday started out with a bang! There were strong earnings reported from some big banks, manufacturing rose for the 12th straight month, construction spending edged up (mainly due to government projects) and the stock market jumped 200
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The decade of the 1990’s is America’s modern day equivalent of the Roaring 20’s. Back then, we were making great strides in productivity. We had near full employment, the government had a surplus of cash and the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I wanted to do a little more on the coming plight of the U.S. dollar. I received this comment from a reader named Billhopen who wrote, “Inflation??? you go to lengths quoting Karl Denninger (Market Ticker) who
By Greg Hunter’sUSAWatchdog.com I was interviewed by Max Keiser in Europe last week. For the 4th of July holiday on Monday the 5th, I am posting part three of a three part interview.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The President gave a speech on immigration reform yesterday. One of the most outrageous things the President said, “The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years.” Please, Mr. President,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The much awaited financial reform bill was finished up in an overnight marathon House and Senate committee session last week. Now it appears there is a holdup in the Senate because of the $19 billion bank tax
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Respected banking analyst Meredith Whitney dropped a bomb on CNBC at the beginning of the week by saying, “Unequivocally, I see a double-dip in housing. There’s no doubt about it . . . prices are going down
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The possibility of a BP bankruptcy because of the ongoing Gulf oil spill is very real. Since the oil spill disaster on April 20, the company’s share price has been cut in half. BP has lost $90 billion
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, three stories acted as signposts for the direction of the U.S. Dollar value. The first is about a letter President Obama sent to members of the G20 (Group of 20 major industrial countries) in advance of
