This News section gives analysis of all the markets including stocks, bonds, gold, silver, housing, interest rates, inflation and overall health of the general economy. The Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Comptroller of the Currency, Bank of International Settlements, derivatives, deficits, demographics, financial calamity, and even the dollar are a few of the things we will incorporate into the conversation.
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 The Friday headline in the Wall Street Journal reads “Job Losses Moderate But Unemployment Hits 9.7%.” This is just a short post to give you the “Real” number according to John Williams at shadowstats.com. He recreates government statistics the
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com There are so many reasons why this stock market should be hitting a wall. Just a few are: high unemployment, plummeting tax revenues, major real estate declines, defaults in both residential and commercial properties, hundreds of banks
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com John Williams of shadowstats.com put out an alert today (9/2/09). It read, in part,”Something Brewing in Systemic Solvency Crisis?” Part of what Williams does is give forecasts to clients, some of which are big companies and hedge funds.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair dropped a small bomb on CNBC last night. She said, “Commercial real estate will be more of a driver of bank failures.” What! You mean more than the imploding residential real estate market?
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I keep hearing the constant drone of real estate being “at a bottom” or “finding a bottom.” I started to really notice this chatter by the talking heads of financial television in the middle of June when
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com As I watch the News out of Washington today, I see the heads of our nation’s biggest banks being grilled in Congress on the causes of the economic problems we are facing. None of those guys can
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com While I was watching the wall to wall Inauguration coverage of Barack Obama there was a “man in the street” segment on one of the networks where people were being asked “What should the new President do
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com In April of this year former Fed Chief Paul Volcker described the problems facing the economy as the “mother of all crises.” That was a critical and amazing statement, not just because of the implications of what
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Everybody knows the date of the start of the Great Depression, October 29th 1929. It was the day of the worst stock market crash in history. Some people confuse the stock market crash on that fateful day
