By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, says the record highs you see in the stock markets are based on “phony profits” that come from global central banks “propping up” the financial system. Roberts says, “Any of these central banks are really only there for a handful of big banks. That’s all they are concerned with. All the Federal Reserve has been concerned with for the last decade is the welfare of a handful of mega banks. Of course, the banks are too large. They should have never been allowed to get that large. When you have a bank too big to fail, then your policy has failed. You’ve allowed too much concentration. Where is anti-trust? Where is the Sherman Act? Everything that was legislated in the past to prevent the kind of looming catastrophe that is hanging over our heads, this looming catastrophe is produced by central banks. They are perpetuating it because they don’t know how to get out of it.”

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

Author Patricia Muth says the two-party system is not what you think it is in today’s political landscape. It’s not Republican vs. Democrat, but “We the People” vs. “the Swamp.”  Muth explains, “We don’t have a two-party system in this country.  We have a one-party system in Congress, and that’s the establishment.  What the people want is not in the minds of the establishment, and you can see that happening all over.  Somehow, along the way, Congress forgot they work for us.  The Senate certainly doesn’t believe they work for us.  Do you think that (Senator) Bob Corker could have a rally, plan it in four days and bring 20,000 or 30,000 people there?  Donald Trump can, and Donald Trump can actually be the spokesman for the American people.  The people want the agenda that Trump is putting forward, and the Congress and Senate does not want to go along with it.  Many in the establishment will be unelected in the 2018 election.”

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

(WNW 305 10.13.17)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says there are nine big global banks in big financial trouble. These nine banks represent $47 trillion in assets. Gregory Mannarino of TradersChoice.net says these nine banks could all be the equivalent to Lehman Brothers that imploded the financial markets in 2008.  The IMF agrees and warns it will only take one of the nine named banks to cause global “systemic stress.”  Citigroup is the only U.S. bank named by the IMF as a struggling global bank.

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Money manager Michael Pento says President Trump sent a profound financial message to Wall Street and Main Street when he said $74 billion in Puerto Rican debt needed to be “wiped out.” Pento, who is also an economist, explains, “What I find very striking is that Trump said, very honestly, we’re going to get rid of that.  We’re going to abrogate it.  We’re going to cancel that debt.  So, he’s telling private creditors, Goldman Sachs, pension funds and individual bond holders, you’re going to get close to, if not exactly, zero cents on the dollar.  That’s an explicit default on debt. (more…)

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

Reverend Rick Wiles thinks what’s happening in America is crystal clear. Wiles, who is also a Christian media sensation that has a huge following on Trunews.com, explains, “We have been telling our audience for 18 ½ years that this world, the governments, the corporations, the media are controlled at the top, not everybody, but at the top, there are people who are avowed satanic, Luciferian, devil worshipers.  I know that sounds extreme and bizarre to people, but every day that goes by I am more convinced I’ve been right all these years.  (more…)

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 304 10.6.17)

There are still lots of questions surrounding the mass murder in Las Vegas last Sunday. If you watch the mainstream press, there is a story of a single shooter and no motive. If you watch the alternative media, there are accusations of a second shooter caught on video and ties to Antifa and ISIS. Regardless of who you believe, the left wants to disarm America, nullify the Constitution and do away with the Second Amendment.

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Four time best-selling financial book author James Rickards says don’t get too comfortable with the record high stock prices. Rickards explains, “I think the markets will have a very violent reversal in late November or early December.  Let me be specific about why because I never make claims like this without backing it up. . . . Here’s what’s going on.  Right now, markets are priced for a Fed rate hike in December. . . . The stock market is interpreting this rate hike as economic strength . . . everything is set for a violent reversal because the Fed is not going to hike interest rates in December.”

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

Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts says you can add $21 trillion of missing federal money on top of the $20 trillion U.S. deficit. It’s all in a new explosive report on Solari.com.  Fitts explains, “This is $65,000 for every man, woman and child resident in America.  In addition, it is now more than the outstanding official debt on the U.S. balance sheet. . . . We know that the U.S. government has been run like a criminal enterprise from a financial standpoint.”

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 303 9.29.17)

Good news on North Korea and the tensions with the U.S. over its nuclear ambitions. China is ordering North Korean businesses to close because of the latest U.N. sanctions pushed by the U.S.  This is way above and beyond what was required and is a positive sign that China is ramping up the pressure to get North Korea to back down.  This will hurt the flow of currency going into North Korea from China.

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Private investor Gordon Long contends the price of gold will shock the world when it revalues to reflect the massive amount of currency that has been printed globally. Long explains, “That is correct, and it won’t be something that is gradual, it will be very abrupt.  The system will break . . . and the financial markets will freeze up.  When they come out of the other end of that freeze, and it may be a number of weeks because the next crisis will be global and much more complex than 2008.  We could control that with the Federal Reserve . . . and this one you cannot do because you cannot get agreement with all those countries.  Never mind understanding the complexity.  So, when we come out on the other side . . . there will be a massive revaluation in the U.S. dollar. . . .  Gold could jump to $5,000 or $10,000 an ounce or something like that. (more…)

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

Trader/analyst Gregory Mannarino says Fed Head Janet Yellen “lied” when she spoke last week about the “mystery” of not hitting the Fed’s inflation targets. Mannarino explains, “It’s no mystery.  You have to choke or laugh or barf when you hear her say something like that, and no one checks her on that.  It’s an absolute lie, an incredible lie . . . the economy is dead in the water.  It’s Economics 101.  That’s why she can’t create inflation.  It’s no mystery.  The cash isn’t moving.  The cash is not moving because the economy is going nowhere.  She can perpetuate the lie because she has managed to inflate the stock market.  The average person looks at the stock market and says the stock market is going up.  So, that means our economy is doing well.  It’s an incredible thing, but it’s just not the truth.  This is how they can twist people’s minds.  By keeping the market elevated, it is an illusion.  The illusion becomes real to the uninformed.”

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 302 9.22.17)

There is bad news and good news about the tensions between North Korea and the U.S. First, the bad news.  President Trump threatened to “destroy North Korea” if the country continues on its nuclear path and tests more ballistic missiles.  North Korea says they will deal with President Trump “with fire.”  Now, the good news.  China has agreed to enforce stricter sanctions on North Korea (NK) through its banking system.  The U.S. has called on China to cut off North Korea from doing business with China’s biggest banks.  That doesn’t mean the problem is solved, but it is a huge step by China to curtail NK’s missile testing by cutting down on the flow of cash going into North Korea.

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Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Radio host, patriot and retired orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dave Janda is an outspoken critic of Obama Care. Dr. Janda says, “Obama Care is cancer–period.  You can’t tweak cancer.  You have to cut it out.  You have to destroy it, and any plan that does not completely get rid of Obama Care, the patient is going to die–period.  The patient is going to die.”

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

Resource analyst and futurist Chris Martenson says everyone should be taking notice of our “dangerous markets.” At the center of the danger zone is the declining U.S. dollar.  Martenson explains, “We are talking about a steady erosion of the dollar as a reserve currency.  I think that is most likely.  The only thing that could make that really go fast is some kind of war.  The United States and China, we got to keep our eye on this because Trump has been threatening a trade war with China.  China responded and said if you do that, we may dump the dollar. . . . So, there is all this trade and financial back and forth and maybe even actual war at some point. . . . China has the ability to really impact the dollar in a big way on the world stage.  We better hope it does not come to that because a slow erosion we can adjust to; a quick erosion is going to really roil the markets and maybe blow a few of them up.”

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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 301 9.15.17) 

North Korea (NK) has done it again and has fired another ballistic missile over the top of Japan. NK is extremely upset over the latest round of sanctions unanimously approved by the U.N. Security Council.  NK has reportedly threatened to “sink” Japan and “reduce the U.S. to ashes.”

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