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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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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In the early days of coal mining, canaries acted as a warning that odorless poisonous gas was present. If there was a dangerous gas build-up, the canary would be the first to keel over. You can use
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Pick a financial fire and you can be sure the U.S. government will hose it down with gallons of money. AIG, General Motors, Chrysler, insolvent states, FDIC, Fannie, Freddie and all the banks are just a few
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com A little more than a month ago, President Obama took a big step toward weaning the country off foreign oil. His bold plan, announced at the end of March, included opening up 167 million acres along the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com One of my consistent views on this site is “real” inflation is much higher than what the government is telling us. For example, recently the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced February’s inflation number (CPI) was “unchanged” at
By Gene Tunney Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com You and I are in the Taxpayer Club. We are the working class of America; you know, the part that has to pay for the stimulus programs and Wall Street bailouts. We are
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Many people I talk to and hear from are having a really hard time grasping how severe the real estate crisis is in America. Let me sum up how bad the problem is in one simple sentence.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It looks like the Haiti quake in January was just the warm-up act to the giant 8.8 magnitude shaker that hit Chile. It one of the largest quakes on record. This could not come at a worse time
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Have you ever heard someone say they saved money by buying something on sale? An example would be saving $200 by spending $400 dollars on a new set of golf clubs that were on sale for 33%
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was on the nationwide overnight radio show, Coast to Coast AM, last week to talk about the real estate crisis. The topic of foreclosures naturally came up, and I told people to make sure you ask the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Federal Reserve raised the discount rate yesterday to 3/4% from 1/2%. That’s the interest rate the Fed charges banks in an emergency. The Fed insisted that rates for consumers and companies would not rise. So why
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com There has been some encouraging news about the real estate market recently. In San Francisco, real estate prices shot back up 16% according to the Case-Shiller Index. On the other coast, friends of mine in the New
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The recently published book called “This Time Is Different” makes the case that this financial crisis has the same basic elements as every other financial crisis since the 1300’s. Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart do a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Almost everything but the U.S. dollar took a hit yesterday. Oil sold off nearly 4 bucks a barrel, the Dow was off nearly 270 points, bonds tumbled and gold plunged nearly $50 per ounce. The dollar was
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.comI was a featured guest on the nationwide overnight radio show “Coast to Coast AM” last week. The show airs on more than 500 radio stations. “Coast to Coast AM” has a huge audience. So, after my appearance,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In the post “Is the Recession Over? Not a Chance!” this past Monday (1/18/10), there was a prediction made about the upcoming PPI. Shadow Government Statistics said, “…annual PPI inflation should pick-up sharply in December.”
