By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Financial writer and former international derivatives broker Rob Kirby thinks the Fed’s recent cut back in money printing or “taper” is a con game.  Kirby says, “The threat of taper made rates go up.  The actual taper has made the 10-year Treasury drop 40 basis points in less than a month.  The notion that the taper had anything to do with interest rates going higher seems to be a non-story.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Let’s go back to the Middle East for the top stories.  The Syrian peace talks have gone nowhere.  Absolutely nothing has been accomplished from the U.S. perspective.  They have failed and the best thing you can hope for is another round of talks.  The Syrians and the Assad regime, on the other hand, look to be the big winners.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Author/investor Doug Casey says, “We’re in a bond bubble.  This is much more serious than the other bubbles because the bond market is much larger than either the real estate market or the stock market.”  Casey explains, “What the government has been doing in an attempt to prop up the failing economy and prop up failing banks and brokerage firms is keep interest rates at very low levels, and that has taken bonds to very high levels.  That bubble is in search of a pin at this point, and when it blows up, it will be much worse than what we saw when the recession started in 2007. ” 

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts knows the economy is bad, but not all bad.  She says, “There are many aspects of the economy where the fundamentals are dreadful, and there are certainly parts of the economy collapsing in an evolving implosion.”  Fitts contends capital has shifted out of the old system and into a new system that is high tech and rapidly evolving.  Fitts explains, “One of the things that is keeping the slow burn going is that money flowing into the new system is being reinvested, and those parts of the economy are not only growing but growing strongly. . . . . (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Syria is the top story.  Before the second round of Geneva peace talks even started, Iran was uninvited to the talks by the U.N.  It was because Iran would not agree that the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, should be removed as part of any peace plan.  The Syrian peace talks have turned into a name calling event with both sides posturing.  This is why the headlines say things like peace talks get off to “Belligerent Start.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts is making some bold new claims about the Federal Reserve and its official government gold holdings.  Dr. Roberts contends, “They don’t have any more gold.  That’s why they can only give Germany 5 tons of the 1,500 tons it’s holding.  In fact, when Germany asked for this delivery last year, the Fed said no.  But it said we will give you back 300 tons . . . . So, they said we will give you back 20% of what you trusted us to keep for you over the next seven years, but they are not even able to do that.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Early Sunday Release)

William Black is both a Professor of Law and Economics.  He has a wealth of opinions on the politics of spying and Wall Street crime. On President Obama’s curtailing of NSA spying, Professor Black says, “It is only because of Snowden’s disclosures that we know more, and we have this debate . . . The NSA probably intercepts 50,000 documents for every one document that foreign intelligent services collect.  So, we are the story internationally (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

President Obama told Democratic Senators at the White House this week he is going ahead with his agenda with or without Republicans in Congress.  It looks like he will be ramping up the so-called executive order on policies such as immigration and income inequality.  I don’t see how a Constitutional scholar doesn’t get the way the U.S. government works.  Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government are essentially equal and provide checks and balances.  I predict this policy will backfire. 

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Forget what you are hearing about stiffer mortgage lending requirements.  It’s not true.  Real estate expert Fabian Calvo says, “If you can fog up a mirror or you have a pulse, they will give you a home loan.  That’s what they have done with the car loans, and that’s what they are doing with housing loans.”  T (more…)

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Financial newsletter writer, Dr. Jim Willie, has a bleak warning for America.  Dr. Willie says, “I don’t think the United States is going to be killed as the host.  I think it’s going to be bled to death and harvested for its organs, and done so by China.”  (more…)

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

My top story is not New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the “lane closure gate” on the George Washington bridge between New York and New Jersey.  In a word, it is “stupid.”  The amount of time the networks spent on this story is outrageous.  They should spend this much time on things like the NSA spying and the IRS being used as a political weapon.  This is why the mainstream media is fast becoming irrelevant and untrusted.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “We have a situation where all the markets are rigged.  All the markets are manipulated.”  As an example, Dr. Roberts points to the stock market.  Dr. Roberts contends, “We have a stock market at all-time highs, and where is the economy?  There’s not one.  There’s no recovery.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Early Sunday Release)

Economist John Williams thinks 2014 will mark the beginning of hyperinflation.  Williams contends, “You are going to see, early on, a crisis in the dollar that will start to trigger the inflation . . . as the inflation picks up, that’s going to savage the economy, which is already in a depression.  It never recovered.”  Forget what you have heard about the so-called recovery.  Williams says, “The consumer is in trouble.  There is nothing happening to turn the economy around.”  The weak economy is bad news for the dollar.  According to Williams, “Anything that would suggest deficit deterioration here, and a weak economy would do that, will have a devastating impact on the dollar.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

The top story is the official start of Obama Care.  Look at the mainstream media headline: “Health Care sign-ups top 1 Million.”   Here’s what they are not telling you.  People who have turned negative on government-run health care are at record numbers.  A CNN poll says 63% think the new law will make health care more expensive.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Early Sunday Release)

Gerald Celente is one of the world’s top trends researchers.  His top trends in 2014 start with the Middle East.  Iran, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Yemen and Turkey are just a few of the countries facing big problems.  Celente exclaims, “You just keep going around the Middle East, it’s total turmoil.”  (more…)