By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot

By The Committee on Financial Services The House of Representatives today passed two bipartisan Financial Services Committee bills, including one that sets a deadline for

By GuruFocus Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University invented the Schiller P/E to measure the market’s valuation. The Schiller P/E is a more reasonable market

By Robert Wenzel This is Update 2 on news that the Department of Homeland Security has served a court order to the money exchange service

“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is

By Dan Kadlec The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in

[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their

[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!] Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire

By Wikipedia The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the

By David Kravets The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S.,

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By U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act includes provisions that require the SEC to undertake various initiatives, including rulemaking and

[CAF Note: The big banks can borrow at 0.75%, but students have to pay 6%+. Why is that? It is called reverse Robin Hood. Debase

By ROAR Collective A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the

By GoldMoney Andy Duncan has the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts, known for her much-read Solari report. With a wealth of experience on Wall

By Clive Cookson I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards

By Mark DeCambre Talk about a nanny state. Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have

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By Catherine Austin Fitts I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the

(TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013 We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The

Click Image to See the Whole Infographic Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Infographic by CustomMade

The Blue Light Video

by Catherine Austin Fitts We have created our first Solari Coin – a one ounce silver round designed for Solari by Ben Lizardi of Lizardi

By BBC News Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday. Banking reforms will be

By Kauffman Foundation The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the

By RT A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history

By True Activist McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever! After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a

Photo Credit: flickr / Zach Copley By Sarah E. Needleman and Spencer E. Ante Bitcoin startups are beginning to raise sizable investment capital even as

By InfoWars Addressing 2013 graduates at the Ohio State University in Columbus today, Obama’s speech writers took the opportunity to remind outgoing grads that the

By Julia Irvine In its annual Fraud Survey, it reveals that of the 3,000 board members, managers and their teams across 36 countries who were

Photo Credit: bbwbryant/Flickr By Truthdig MR: No, no. Neil MacBride, just so you know, he’s the attorney, U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia.

By Marielle Segarra As companies wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act rules, they may be eager

By Michael Sankowski I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are

Photo Credit: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters By Reuters Investigators from the agency that regulates power markets have found a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co manipulated trading

By Michael Boldin On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it

By Louise Yamada The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline

By Bifurcated Carrots There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission,

By Robert W. Wood Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if

[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?] By Sarah Jones Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11

Transcript of Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: Good evening. This is Catherine

By Catherine Austin Fitts Last Five Years Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows

Photo Credit: Daniel Acker/Getty By Araceli Cruz If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months

By Hoisington Investment Management Company “The Federal Reserve is printing money”. No statement could be less truthful. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is not, and has

By David Gumpert Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on

By James Surowiecki When we all finished filing our tax returns last week, there was a little something missing: two trillion dollars. That’s how much

By Staff Writers Washington (AFP) The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including

By Riverbend April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis

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Trusted Sources Video

Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron [CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for

By Liz Farmer In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension

By John Rubino Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet

By Jim Farber Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.

[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?] Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter Google Glass

By Grant Williams I am a seller of gold. Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price. One day, long into

By Catherine Austin Fitts I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of

[CAF Note: Ever notice how bad things happen to people who stand up to Monsanto?] By Alexandra Berzon As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer

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Photo Credit:AP By James Nye, Louise Boyle, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened

Painting By Patricia Coslor She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and also studied at Parson’s School of

By Elizabeth Landau In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets. Scientists announced Thursday the discovery

Photo Credit:Getty Images by Declan McCullagh The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers

By James Gallagher A kidney “grown” in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say. Similar techniques

By James Gallagher The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be

Photo Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg By Glenys Sim, Phoebe Sedgman & Debarati Roy Gold plunged the most in 33 years amid record-high trading as an unexpected

By Jordan Graham, John Zaremba Two huge explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, apparently causing numerous

By KristenM The first time I ever tasted a real tomato, I was in Cusco, Peru. I had picked them up at a Farmer’s Market,

Photo Credit:AFP/Getty Images By Heather Stewart and Helena Smith Cypriot politicians have reacted with fury to news that the crisis-hit country will be forced to

On my last trip to California I kept running into a group of people promoting specific solutions to the problems that face us, including government

A State of Amusement

by Valerie Strauss Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they

By Katherine Burton, Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie

By ActualidadRT Fraude colateral. ¿Cómo funciona? ¿Quién está por detrás? En este caso Daniel Estulin habla con Catherine Austin Fitts, ex alta funcionaria de la

By Larry Bell Do those of us who are determined to defend our constitutional rights to own and bear arms really have anything to worry

These companies all supported Monsanto’s anti GMO labeling act efforts.     Aunt Jemima Aurora Foods Banquet Best Foods Betty Crocker Bisquick Cadbury Campbells Capri

Photo Credit: Enrique Cornejo By Simon McCormack Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession. Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an

By: Kylie MacLellan Crowdfunding websites helped companies and individuals worldwide raise $2.7 billion from members of the public in 2012, an 81 percent increase on

By Spencer Ackerman The video above is what the Navy’s top officers view as the future of their dominance on the surface of the world’s

[CAF Note: Notice the double standard in the treatment of an artists or author copyright and Monsanto’s seed patents? Ain’t no accident! And please don’t

[Note from CAF: The Economist is laying the philosophic basis for eminent domain actions on scale. Given the recent leads about the TransPacific negotiations and

By Bernie Becker President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in

[CAF Note: In the following editorial from Forbes, Steve Forbes describes the dangers of various forms of confiscation. While we have covered these issues for

By Alex Newmann After almost four years of negotiations, the Canadian government and the European Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal

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The Mom and Pop Predicament

By Henry Blodget Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and

By Tax Justice Network MAIN REPORT 1 – The Price of Offshore Revisited Press Release Key Issues Main Report MAIN REPORT 2 – Inequality: You

By Margaret Collins & Devin Banerjee Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest investors, are discovering a new type

Photo Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg By Ken Tysiac U.S. public companies can use social media to make company announcements as long as they inform investors

By Natasha Lennard Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto