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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 was pulling up to a store yesterday in my car, listening to CNBC on XM Radio, when an interview with banking analyst Meredith Whitney came on as a guest. I shut the car off and listened
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Just last week, I ridiculed a group of academic economists for calling an end to the longest recession since World War II. The National Bureau of Economic Research proclaimed the recession we STILL find ourselves in ended
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com With gold hitting all time nominal highs this week, the recurring question is “Is gold in a bubble?” The yellow metal has been flirting with the $1,300 an ounce mark, and some folks are getting a little
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com My nephew, Luke, called me the other day vexing over the materials used in our coins. He is a finance major in grad school and was researching money when he discovered that pennies were 97.5 percent zinc
About this time last year, I heard financial expert Jim Rickards say on CNBC, “Federal Reserve needs to cut US Dollar in half over next 14 years.” He followed that up by saying, “If the market sees that playing out which
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.
