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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
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com According to economist John Williams at Shadow Government Statistics (SGS), we are getting “… false positive signals…” for monthly numbers such as retail sales and unemployment. So, a recovery looks like it is taking place when a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Alex,a friend of mine, sent me an email with just one sentence. It said, “Did you read this?” It was an article published this week by NYU Economics Professor Nouriel Roubini titled, “Roubini: Here’s Five Reasons The
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The FDIC just shut down another 6 banks last Friday. There is no end in sight for the bank failures coming. To make matters worse, the FDIC is way more than $8 billion in the hole as
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Dubai World asked creditors if it could suspend payments on nearly $60 billion in debt. Experts call this a “technical default” by Dubai itself because it owns Dubai World which
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced this week that the insurance fund that covers more than $4.5 trillion in deposits was not only depleted but has a negative balance of $8.2 billion according to the Wall Street
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com A very important hurdle was cleared last week for the folks who want to end the Federal Reserve’s privilege of secrecy. By a bipartisan vote of 46-26, the House Finance Committee approved an amendment to audit the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It appears the “fix” is in as far as the road plan for the U.S. dollar and economy. The government and the Fed appear to have chosen a path of inflation for America and the world. This is not an
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Gold hit another all time high this week. I do not pretend to be a gold expert, but I do know a good story when I see one. The yellow metal hitting one all time high after
