By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Financial analyst Karl Denninger has never bought the so-called “recovery” story.  Just the opposite is happening right now.  He says, “When you look at these indices in the context of the last three or four months, what you see is a deteriorating picture . . . deteriorating employment, deteriorating final demand, deteriorating basically everything.”   (more…)

Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

The Fed is reversing course.  Instead of talking about curtailing money printing, it is now extending it.  This comes as no surprise to financial analyst Gregory Mannarino.  He says, “There’s no way out of it.  The Federal Reserve cannot and will not stop printing money.  If they do, it is party over at that moment.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

New news about the Boston bombing suspects, and it is not pretty.  It is reported that Russia contacted the U.S. government “multiple times” about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.  He’s the older brother that was killed in a shootout with police and FBI.  The FBI’s excuse for not taking Russian warnings seriously was the FBI thought Tsarnaev did not pose a threat.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Fabian Calvo of TheNoteHouse.us processes $100 million of distressed real estate annually.  He says we are in the process of a pump and dump real estate crisis.  Calvo contends, “The big hedge funds and big private equity are buying all the real estate right now. . . . So, when they start dumping, they will be dumping to those buyers who will be getting money for free from the government.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Legendary investor Jim Rogers is worried about unprecedented money printing around the globe.  Rogers says, “We have never had every government debasing their currency at the same time. . . . This is the first time in recorded history where you have most of them doing it all together.  These are perilous times . . . one way or another, this is going to end badly.”  Rogers owns gold and thinks last week’s gold sell-off was a good thing.  Rogers says, “This is normal.  This is not unusual.  I welcome it.  I expect gold to go much, much, much higher over the next decade, but it will not and cannot until it starts having normal corrections.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatachdog.com 

Video and photos are now released, and suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case are being hunted down.  They will be in custody soon, if not already.  My prayers go out to family members who lost lives and limbs in the blast.  This is being politicized  to blame and demonize everything from the NRA to Republicans and even the sequester cuts.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Former bank regulator and Professor William Black says, “Apparently, regulators are much more sophisticated than we were because we had never thought of leaving felons in charge of our largest financial institutions.”   (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Precious metal expert Rick Rule is not worried about the recent smack down in gold and silver prices.  Rule is motivated by wealth protection.  So, the price decline is a “nonevent.”  Rule asks, “What are the alternatives?  Perhaps you’d like to buy a 30-year U.S. Treasury, something Jim Grant famously described as a return-free risk.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

North Korea, once again, leads the Weekly News Wrap-Up.  There has been nothing done to ease tensions in the past week on the Korean Peninsula—just the opposite.  On one side, you have the North Koreans planning more missile launches.  On the other, you have U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel saying North Korea was “skating very close to a dangerous line.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Sometimes I am shocked at what leaks out over the mainstream media.  Two days ago, former White House Budget Director in the Reagan Administration, David Stockman, dropped some financial bombs in an interview on FOX.  He said the Social Security Trust Fund  was “filled with confetti.”   This was not included in the cut I posted.  What is included in the clip is Stockman saying if the Fed was “gone fishing” for six weeks (meaning it would stop the $85 billion a month “open-ended” money printing),  “there would be calamity in the markets.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

You want to know why gold and silver prices are down?  Listen to former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts.  He says, “When gold hit $1,900, the Federal Reserve panicked because they realized with the dollar deteriorating so rapidly, compared to bullion prices, that soon it would also deteriorate its exchange value with other currencies.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Dr. Jim Willie of GoldenJackass.com says powerful forces around the globe are working to do away with trading in U.S. dollars because of massive money printing by the Fed.  Dr. Willie says, “The world makes a reaction, and what they have done is create, slowly but surely, a U.S. dollar alternative for trade.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 4.5.13 

Just three stories today, but they are big ones–North Korea, the Middle East and the ongoing banking crisis.  North Korea has rattled its saber in the past, but not this loudly.  Any talk that this is another bluff to get the world to back off on the sanctions for its nuclear program is underestimating the seriousness of the situation.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Economist John Williams says don’t be fooled by the new highs on the Dow.  Williams contends, “The economy is still in serious trouble.  The banking system is still in serious trouble.  The budget deficit is exploding out of control.”  Williams thinks the ongoing banking crisis in Cyprus has global implications.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Trends forecaster Gerald Celente says, “The United States is provoking North Korea.  They keep putting more and more sanctions on them.  It’s economic warfare.”  Celente is worried that “economic warfare” will turn into a shooting war.  (more…)