This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group

Alternative economists have been predicting a long list of instabilities in the US economy and for some time. We've been proven right in the last few years on most of those predictions and, as usual, corporate media economists are now scrambling to pretend as if they "saw the danger coming" all along. They now suddenly have their own ideas on how to fix the very problems they used to call "conspiracy theory." The vital question is, who do you trust?

You can't trust someone to offer you a valid solution if they're too dense to understand the source of the crisis. You also can't trust someone to give you valid solutions on the economy if their job is to lie to you about how great things are.

The alternative media's accuracy about our nation's dire circumstances has put us in a position to be right which should at least win us some trust points, but being right is only the first step. There will always be government shills that seek to undermine truth-tellers by claiming we serve no purpose because we aren't actively fixing the problems that they warn about.

Frankly, that's not our job. However, it's true that our movement has a tendency to focus on diagnosis of a problem rather than prevention or treatment.