Trade in Services Agreement

Trade in Services Agreement

By Wikileaks Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’

Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home

Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home

“Yet it must also be recognized that nuclear energy, biotechnology, information technology; knowledge of our DNA, and many other abilities, which we have acquired, have…given

The Turn Is Upon Us

The Turn Is Upon Us

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it

The Worricker Trilogy

The Worricker Trilogy

By Catherine Austin Fitts If you like action films half as much as I do, then you are going to love The Worricker Trilogy, three

Dressing Fascism in Skirts

Dressing Fascism in Skirts

“Trust is central to an economy that works.” ~ Stephen Covey By Catherine Austin Fitts In the late 1990’s, I conducted a deep analysis of control

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVII

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVII

“People are always asking me where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question, The right question is: Where is the outlook most miserable?

Report from Down Under

Report from Down Under

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” ~ William Hazlitt By Catherine

Vivid Sydney

Vivid Sydney

By Catherine Austin Fitts Vivid Sydney is an 18-day annual event of light, music and art. Nothing is more spectacular than the light show dancing

Catherine in Sydney: Planet Debt

Catherine in Sydney: Planet Debt

By Catherine Austin Fitts On Tuesday, Solari Report subscribers and selected friends and entrepreneurs joined Jason Bawden-Smith and me for a discussion of Planet Debt

Texas HB 483

Texas HB 483

By Franklin Sanders I read this bill establishing a Texas state precious metals depository a few nights ago and it has everything. I talked to

Real Estate: Juicing the US Housing Market

Real Estate: Juicing the US Housing Market

By Catherine Austin Fitts Speaking as a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, an important traditional formula for Democratic Administrations to win Presidential elections is to

Restoring the Balance

Restoring the Balance

By Catherine Austin Fitts In the action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Johnny Depp plays an intelligence agency operative working in Mexico who

Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends

Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends

By Liz Gannes Two decades after 1995, the year of the Netscape IPO, the Internet population has exploded in size, it’s much more mobile, and

Catherine in Auckland: The Global Rebalancing

Catherine in Auckland: The Global Rebalancing

By Catherine Austin Fitts A wonderful audience turned out yesterday to support the Ficino Educational Trust lecture series at the University of Auckland Business School.

Nourishing Civilization at Ficino School

Nourishing Civilization at Ficino School

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” ~Leonardo da Vinci By Catherine Austin Fitts Monday was one of

Footnotes from the New Zealand Budget

Footnotes from the New Zealand Budget

By Catherine Austin Fitts There are some interesting footnotes in New Zealand’s new budget which speak to the re-balancing of the global economy. View the

The Stories of Uluru

The Stories of Uluru

“Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of madness, tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The

The Race to Call the Top

The Race to Call the Top

By Catherine Austin Fitts I wonder who flipped the switch. Apparently last week spin central sent out the e-mail blast, telling everyone to call the

The Entrapment Machine

The Entrapment Machine

“All government money comes with a sock in the jaw.” ~ Franklin Sanders By Catherine Austin Fitts While I was at the gym this weekend

Has MIT Lost Its Mind???

Has MIT Lost Its Mind???

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” ~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream And who, exactly, is “WE?” Inquiring minds would like to know… —

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVI

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVI

“The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.” ~ John C. Bogle By Solari Team Last week we decided to

Celebrating the Life of Dr Gwen Scott

Celebrating the Life of Dr Gwen Scott

“Appreciate the Grace” ~ Dr. Gwen Scott By Catherine Austin Fitts I was informed by a reader last week that Dr. Gwen Scott has passed

Catherine’s letter to FDA

Catherine’s letter to FDA

Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane Rm.1061 Rockville, MD 20852 RE: Docket No. FDA-2002-N-0323” Ladies and Gentlemen: I am

Catherine in Sydney, June 2nd: Planet Debt

Catherine in Sydney, June 2nd: Planet Debt

Catherine will join entrepreneur Jason Bawden-Smith at Enlightened Events in  Sydney, Australia on Tuesday June 2nd from 6 pm to 9 pm. Click here to learn

Latest Fed FOMC Statement “Translation”

Latest Fed FOMC Statement “Translation”

h6 { background-color:#CCCC99; padding:10px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-top:23px; font-size:120%; } View the complete Fed FOMC meeting statement from April 29, 2015 Fed comments are HIGHLIGHTED. Catherine Austin

What’s Really Happening in Baltimore?

What’s Really Happening in Baltimore?

By Catherine Austin Fitts I would encourage you to read Michael Snyder’s article posted at zerohedge.com regarding what’s currently taking place in Baltimore: 12 Unanswered

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XV

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XV

“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot is probably going to run it.” ~ Peter Lynch

Netflix is Now Bigger than CBS

Netflix is Now Bigger than CBS

By John McDuling Netflix shares are soaring after another outstanding quarter. And as of right now, that’s pushed the market value of the disruptive streaming

Targeting Teachers

Targeting Teachers

[CAF Note: The Chinese have a saying that the way to scare the monkeys is to kill a chicken. The American oligarchy intends to convert

China Blossoms

China Blossoms

“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.” — Deng Xiaoping By Catherine Austin Fitts If

Who I Write For

Who I Write For

by Jon Rappoport NoMoreFakeNews.com OutsideTheRealityMachine Consciousness. Freedom. Power. The individual. Imagination. Creating new realities. Society and civilization as a potential force for helping to liberate

The Hubris Bubble

The Hubris Bubble

by Catherine Austin Fitts The Hubris Bubble YouTube | April 2015 Hubris is pridefulness to the point of cluelessness. Of all the bubble’s we have

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIV

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIV

“You can’t run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?” ~Jeremy Grantham

Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems

Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems

“It’s a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor

Dr. Farrell’s Latest Available on Pre-Order!

Dr. Farrell’s Latest Available on Pre-Order!

By Catherine Austin Fitts I just ordered Dr. Joseph Farrell’s latest: The Third Way: Nazi International, the European Union and Corporate Fascism – an exploration

What the Fed is Really Saying: English Translation

What the Fed is Really Saying: English Translation

View the complete Fed comments from March 18, 2015 Fed comments are in GREEN. Catherine Austin Fitts’ translation follows: “Information received since the Federal Open

The New Dow: Apple In – AT&T Out

The New Dow: Apple In – AT&T Out

“What we’re doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.” ~Steve Jobs By Catherine Austin Fitts The market valuation of Apple passed $700

What if 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?

What if 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly. Continue reading Related reading: Carbon3D

Kickstarting the First Time Homebuyer Market

Kickstarting the First Time Homebuyer Market

In from a Solari Report subscriber: New VA Loans Available Just received a notification in my VA network that Obama has waived requirements for military

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIII

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIII

“”As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which

Recent Trends in Arms Transfers

Recent Trends in Arms Transfers

Click on the map to see the world’s top 20 arms exporters for the period 2010–2014. Click on the map to see the world’s top

Pensions & the Power of Total Economic Return

Pensions & the Power of Total Economic Return

(Photo Credit: Coolcaesar) “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.”

A Constitutional Convention is a Dreadful Idea

A Constitutional Convention is a Dreadful Idea

[CAF Note: In last week’s discussion on the Solari Report, Franklin Sanders and I addressed this issue. A convention opening up the US Constitution will

Navigating a Rising US Dollar

Navigating a Rising US Dollar

click on the image for a larger version by Catherine Austin Fitts I try to stay in a higher mind. However, if one more financial

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XII

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XII

“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”” ~ David Tepper By Catherine Austin Fitts Our trader has been reluctant to proceed with

Another Creepy Wearable Fizzles

Another Creepy Wearable Fizzles

by Catherine Austin Fitts Apple Watch is going to fizzle. That is because even Apple can not persuade consumers to pay to physically wear a

How Hedge Funds Purchased Albany’s Lawmakers

How Hedge Funds Purchased Albany’s Lawmakers

click on the image for a larger version by Hedgeclippers An analysis by Competitive Advantage Research, which examined the campaign spending of 570 hedge fund

The Ides of March

The Ides of March

“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.” ~ John S. Coleman by Catherine Austin Fitts There is

Take that, Boehner

Take that, Boehner

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on

“Beat the Bush” Housing

“Beat the Bush” Housing

S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB) vs. the S&P “Our economy isn’t going to recover until the housing market finds its footing” ~ Mark Zandi By Catherine

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth

by Wikipedia The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income

Debt and (not much) Deleveraging

Debt and (not much) Deleveraging

by Richard Dobbs, Susan Lund, Jonathan Woetzel, and Mina Mutafchieva Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial

Financial Transparency

Financial Transparency

”As in Athens, state accounting in Rome was haphazard, and fraud was common. In his Philippics (44-43 BCE), Cicero complained of bad accounts in his

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XI

Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XI

““Know what you own, and know why you own it.”” ~Peter Lynch By Catherine Austin Fitts Chewing this week on potential investments… Related Reading: Bond

Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism

Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism

by Mary Holland J.D. On September 23, 2014, an Italian court in Milan award compensation to a boy for vaccine-induced autism. (See the Italian document

2015 World Press Freedom Index

2015 World Press Freedom Index

Ranking of every country in 2015 according to the Reporters Without Borders index. click on the image for a larger interactive version Top 10 Finland

An Apple Tops Planet Equity

An Apple Tops Planet Equity

click on the image for a larger version By Catherine Austin Fitts The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that

Central Banks Monetizing Sovereign Debt

Central Banks Monetizing Sovereign Debt

Morgan Stanley chart showing the net issuance of government debt in 2015… click on the image for a larger version Continue reading

Why I Love the Writings of Andrew Vachss

Why I Love the Writings of Andrew Vachss

“I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.” ~ Andrew Vachss By Catherine Austin

Renewable Energy Data Book

Renewable Energy Data Book

Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014… Continue reading the pdf

30,000 Swiss HSBC Bank Accounts Leaked

30,000 Swiss HSBC Bank Accounts Leaked

by Jamie Condliffe A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian calls the “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices