Missing Money: A Personal History – 1989 to 2019
C. Austin Fitts, Assistant Housing Secretary, conferring with assistants during a break in her testimony before a Senate subcommittee, 1989. (The New York Times/Andrea Mohin) […]
Coming Clean Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
[CAF Note: We originally published this article in January 2013. I wrote it over the Christmas holidays in 2012 because it was obvious that, despite […]
Classification for Investors 101
Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Why Does Classification Matter to the Average Investor? A.1. Private Entity Reporting Exemptions A.2. Government Accounting Exemptions A.3. Government […]
Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to Do Due Diligence on U.S. Treasury and Related Securities
By Catherine Austin Fitts Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. ~ February 18, 2019 ~ “There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit […]
Should We Care about Secrecy in Financial Reporting?
Should We Care about Secrecy in Financial Reporting? Dr. Mark Skidmore* Catherine Austin Fitts** Published February 8, 2019 *Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics/Department […]
Lets Go to the Movies
Here is a chronological list of all the movies and documentaries we’ve reviewed on the Solari Report: 2018-12-13 Live Foods For Winning Energy Without Drugs […]
Official U.S. Debt Holders
Depending upon what news sources you read, you may have the impression that the vast majority of the official U.S. government debt is held by […]
National Security Exemptions and SEC Rule 10b-5
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. What Is SEC Rule 10b-5? III. The Elements of a Rule 10b-5 Claim a. Is the Government a “Person” […]
Solari Heros: The Missing Money A-Team
“Why is no one doing anything?” ~ What you say if you want Catherine Austin Fitts to rhetorically chop your head off Please meet the […]
Missing Money: A Personal History – 1989 to 2019
“Tell me a story. In this century and moment of madness, tell me a story.” ~ Robert Penn Warren By Catherine Austin Fitts [TO COME] […]
Contractors, Investors, and Dealers
The ten largest government contractors in 2017 were issued $50.7 billion in contract awards. These ten contractors had a combined 356 instances of misconduct since […]
Caveat Emptor
By Carolyn Betts, Esq and Catherine Austin Fitts [To Come]
The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” -James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United […]
FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. History of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) III. FASAB and Standard 56 A. What Does Standard 56 […]
The Black Budget: The Crossroads of (Un)Constitutional Appropriations and Reporting
The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape […]
The U.S. Statutes Creating Modern Constitutional Financial Management and Reporting Requirements and the Government’s Failure to Follow Them
“About 34 percent of the federal government’s reported total assets as of September 30, 2016, and approximately 18 percent of the federal government’s reported net […]
The Appropriations Clause: A History of the Constitution’s (As of Yet) Underused Clause
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts […]
Reports on “Unsupported Journal Voucher Adjustments” for DOD & HUD
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and […]
The Real Game of Missing Money – Introduction
Click to play “Perhaps the hardest thing to imagine about the secret life of the cryptocracy is that it isn’t a subculture at all: it’s […]
missing money chronology
“Tempus Fugit (Time flies)” ~ Virgil Missing Money Chronology
Scenario #4: Animal Farm
Scenario #4: Animal Farm [Inhuman – Non-Transparent] – Weighting = 30%—This is a world where the central controls and secrecy are so strong and the […]
Scenario #3: Mind Control
Scenario #3: Mind Control [Inhuman-Transparent] – Weighting = 40%—This is a world where everyone pretends we are in the Whew! scenario—but we are not. Cooperation […]
Scenario #2: Candle in the Dark
Scenario #2: Candle in the Dark [Human-Non-Transparent] – Weighting = 25%—This is the world where we are free to be our human self, but we […]
Scenario #1: Whew!
Scenario #1: Whew! [Human-Transparent] – Weighting = 5%—This is the wonderful day we wake up and we are back in a world where people regularly […]
Calendar & Events
2019 Solari Calendar
Rambus Blockbuster Chartology
By Catherine Austin Fitts My “go to” website for technical analysis of precious metals, the US dollar & the US stock market is Rambus Chartology, […]
Top Broker-Dealers
The following table shows the top 15 broker-dealers based on their assets under management in 2018. These are the firms that play an important role […]
Primary Dealers of U.S. Government Securities
The following table shows the primary dealers of U.S. government securities. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Primary dealers are trading counterparties […]
Top 100 U.S. Government Contractors
The following table shows the top contractors to the United States Government as published by the U.S. General Services Administration. Dollar amounts are in USD […]
The Real Game of Missing Money: Movies and Documentaries
“You do not actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer or $30,000 on a toilet seat, Mr. President?” ~ Independence Day scene at Area […]
The Real Game of Missing Money
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life […]
2019: Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready!
We are dividing into multiple worlds—not just those marked by separate languages and cultures, but by different visions of what a human being is. Are […]
Movie of the Year 2018
“Dick Cheney ought to be in jail for war crimes. And if he were and accountability were really achieved in this country, we wouldn’t […]
Documentary of the Year 2018
The Solari Report Documentary of the Year 2018 is The Minds of Men by Truthstream Media. https://www.themindsofmen.net/ Several years ago, I realized that mind control […]
Hero of the Year 2018
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom—for that alone, which no honest man gives […]
And The Winners Are…
Hero of the Year 2018 Documentary of the Year 2018 Movie of the Year 2018 Let’s Go to the Movies
Financial Markets
Table of Contents “What, me worry?” ~ Alfred E. Neuman Fixed Income Equities Commodities
Commodities
“Let me tell you my story once again of the devil and the farmer. The devil goes to a Midwestern farmer and he says, “OK, […]
Fixed Income
“Caveat emptor (/ˈɛmptɔːr/; from caveat, “may he beware”, a subjunctive form of cavēre, “to beware” + ēmptor, “buyer”) is Latin for “Let the buyer beware”. […]
Closing & Credits
“We have to pierce the tunnels of loneliness with the conviction that there are other people, and one has to trust that one is led […]
Trump Report Card
“There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” ~Ronald Reagan Category […]
Best Books for 2019
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” ~Malala Yousafzai These are the books that repeatedly come […]
Introduction
“We do [these] things not because they are easy, but because they are hard” ~John F. Kennedy, Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962 By Catherine Austin […]
Take Action, Inspiration, & Unanswered Questions
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” ~Tennessee Williams TAKE ACTION Story #21: Agrihoods Take […]
Part 1: Trends We Track
“Don’t follow trends, start trends.” ~Frank Capra Every day, we post links to stories in our News Trends & Stories section. Analyzing this flow provides […]
Table of Contents
I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Best Books for 2019 Donations II. The Real Game Of Missing Money Introduction Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to […]
Part 1: Top News Videos
UP 844 Highball @ 75mph: Pulling the 2010 Lionel Collectors Club northbound to Cheyenne July 26, 2010 SteamUP | 12 November 2010 2014: The origins […]
Part II: Trends We Track
“I’m always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.” […]
Part II: Top News Videos
Prof. Olle Johansson on WiFi: “Irreversible sterility within five generations” SSITAorgUK | 10 May 2013 Phil Robertson: This is the reason his show was canceled […]
Part II: Top Ten Stories
CULTURE “The number one challenge of robotics is: How do you create legal and financial and accounting systems to manage it? You are talking about […]
News, Trends & Stories
Photo: Aftermath of California Fires Excerpt: “Solari & the Rise of the Rule of Law” by Catherine Austin Fitts, August 2001 CAF Note: I wrote […]
Part 1: Top Ten Stories
“Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.” ~Edward Tiller Part I includes our stories for our first two categories: economy & financial markets and geopolitics. ECONOMY […]