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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com It appeared one of the President’s top economic advisors, Larry Summers, was trying to do a preemptive strike against what may be some bad unemployment numbers. If unemployment is up, blame harsh winter weather! John Williams, an
By Brian Sussman Guest Writer for Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com I love working in talk radio; the audience is so smart it’s scary. President Obama’s 2010 budget had just been released, when, at the conclusion of a broadcast, a passionate caller named
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com This week, a North Carolina newspaper headline read “Beauty Queens Feeling Squeeze of Economy.” It was a story about how pageant contestants are cutting costs by wearing dresses more than once. Some contestants are also selling old dresses
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Congressman Ron Paul put out a startling warning video just over a week ago. This tells me things must be getting really messy right now.
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The financial malaise the world finds itself in right now can be summed in just one sentence. There is way too much debt. It is such an enormous amount of debt that most people cannot grasp its
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Markets breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after word of an European Union bailout of Greece. The Dow was up 150 points. Greece is one of, what is called, the “PIGS,” which is an acronym for
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com According to Middle East news sources, Iraq will sue the U.S. over the residue from Depleted Uranium munitions. These types of munitions are also commonly referred to as DU. This may sound like the story of an
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com We just finished 2009 with a record federal deficit of $1.4 trillion. Let’s think about that for a minute. The U.S. government says it is $1,400 billion in the red at the end of 2009. But is
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Since the State of the Union Address, the White House has turned its attention to jobs. President Obama said last week, “…jobs must be our focus in 2010, and that is why I am calling for a
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com This was a huge week folks. The two big stories I wrote about were the AIG bailout and cover-up and the U.S. deficit. I have a couple of really good stories to pass along that will give you some more perspective
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representative skewered Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a hearing over the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG. Geithner’s credibility was repeatedly questioned by both Democrats and Republicans over the Treasury
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The Obama Administration is planning to seek a spending freeze for 3 years on domestic discretionary non-security spending. Officials say the freeze could save $250 billion over the next 10 years. That may seem like a lot
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Scott Brown is the new Senator from Massachusetts. When a virtually unknown Republican can take a seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy in the bluest of blue states, the word “upset” doesn’t come close to what happened
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Everybody on Wall Street is breaking out the balloons and party hats and celebrating the end of the recession. Even Larry Summers, the top economist in the Obama Administration, says “Everybody says the recession is over.” Really? “Everybody”
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com The government has made some pretty big financial announcements during the Christmas holiday season. So-called Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, decided to boost the pay of an unnamed AIG executive by $4.3 million. Was Feinberg just playing Santa or taking strategic action to get
