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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Last week, John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics predicted on USAWatchdog that the unemployment number would be worse than expected. He said in an interview, “The risk is on the upside because the economy is weaker than consensus.” Williams
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Mixed in with all the happy talk about better than expected jobless claims and high productivity numbers was this story. (CNNMoney.com) – “The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate near zero once again Wednesday.” I think this
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The information below is provided complements of shadowstats.com. I do not get paid in any way for posting this information. Shadowstats.com is a paid subscription site and well worth the money. Here is the link for the full
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Peter Schiff is a legitimate candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut for the 2010 election. He runs a big time fund called Euro Pacific Capital. He has made some big calls that have proven to be correct.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com A good friend of mine sent me and article from Politico with the headline “Bernanke’s trillion-dollar decision.” I read the article. It talks about how Fed Chief Ben Bernanke has to decide whether or not he will continue
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The story below is what I call the canary in the banking coal mine. Wells Fargo was downgraded today by top banking analyst Dick Bove. He didn’t downgrade them because they were making too much money. What the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I have been warning about a currency crisis for weeks. It appears I am not the only one worried about a big drop in value of the dollar. David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is also betting on a”currency death spiral.”
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com This week I wrote a post about the announcemment of the recession being over. Of course my post (Is the Ression over? Don’t bet on it!) clearly gave reasons why it is NOT over by a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com From John Williams at Shadowstats – September Annual Inflation -1.3% (CPI-U), 6.1% (SGS) – CPI-U Inflation Spike Due by Year-End – No Recovery: September Real Retail Sales Continued Bottom-Bouncing at Low-Level Plateau – 10 Years of Retail
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The headline on Reuters this week read, “U.S. recession over, unemployment seen at 10 percent.” This great news is according to a new survey by the National Association for Business Economics. Forty-four professional forecasters took part in the assay. After
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Everybody is wondering where all of the bailouts and spending are going to take us? Just a few of the big companies the government has bailed out to keep them from going bankrupt are: General Motors, Chrysler,
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com For those of you who think the economy is doing well, gold is saying something altogether different. Today AU hit a brand new high, the record gold price is a major warning sign of, at the very least, big
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Every time I see a speech on the economy, such as President Obama’s on Monday, I rarely see someone cut to the heart of the problem. There is too much debt! That is the simple answer to what
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I am not a gold bug, but I can spot a warning sign when I see one. Gold is near an all time high and this is no fluke! High prices are the result of big demand from monster players
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I love the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” because you tell a lot of people a complicated story in a short amount of time with just one look. The “Other Real Estate Problem” I am talking about
