By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Gold expert Nick Barisheff says the plunge in the gold price is sparking demand.  Barisheff contends, “Usually when there is a big drop in price of paper, there is also a drop in demand on physical gold.  This is the first time I can remember that it has gone the opposite way.  People are perceiving the drop in price as a gigantic buying opportunity.  It’s on sale at a lower price.”  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Israel bombed Syria at the beginning of the week, and it has huge possible consequences to the U.S., Middle East and the world.  The Israelis reportedly attacked multiple sites in Syria.  Part of the raid was meant to destroy Iranian rockets that could strike just about anywhere in Israel.  At least 100 Syrian soldiers were killed.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  

Trends researcher Gerald Celente predicts war in the Middle East.  He says, “It is out of control.  What are people waiting for–an Archduke Ferdinand moment?”  Celente thinks Israel bombing Syria means World War 3 is on its way.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Trader and forecaster Rick Ackerman says, “As far as the Fed getting off the easing regimen, it’s not possible . . . You’d kill the system right now.  There’s no way out, and although we put off the day of reckoning, it can’t be put off indefinitely.”   (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Updated)

This week, the President was asked about State Department whistleblowers that claim they are being pressured NOT to come forward.  The President said he was not aware of this.  Meanwhile, whistleblowers are scheduled to testify in Congress on Benghazi.  Our Ambassador and three others were killed in a terrorist attack on 9/11/12.  (more…)

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…)

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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…)