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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.”
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In February of last year, Fed Chief Ben Bernanke testified in a Senate hearing that he thought the recession would likely be “over in 2010.” In September of 2009, The Fed Chief declared “…From a technical perspective,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com On Christmas Eve of 2009, the Treasury decided to lift the caps on how much bailout money failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would receive to stay in business. The caps represented a maximum taxpayer
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Fed is currently fighting tooth and nail in a federal appeals court to keep its bailout of big banks secret. In August of last year, the Fed lost a lawsuit in federal court that would force the 97
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest unemployment numbers. The BLS said, “Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-85,000) in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.0 percent.” Shadow Government Statistics founder, John Williams,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com There has been some positive financial news to start 2010. Some auto makers reported good sales in December to end the year. Retail sales also perked up in December, and even home sales in some areas showed
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Monday, I did a post called “Bank Ratings Keep Slipping Away.” My colleague across the pond, Max Keiser, sent me an email with his thoughts on the post. Max is a former Wall Street broker turned financial
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I was checking the financial health of my local bank and discovered that it had slipped to a (C-) rating. Not more that three years ago, this bank carried a solid (A) rating. The ratings I am
