By Yves Smith Many readers no doubt know that the so-called $8.5 billion Bank of America mortgage settlement, which was between the Charlotte bank and

By Associated Press Sallie Mae spent $530,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on issues including the implementation of last year’s overhaul of

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This video is gives a brief description of Catherine Austin Fitts. Her family background, her beliefs, and her views on the national and global economic

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By Linda Stern U.S. retirement programs could look different if a grand deficit-cutting bargain is struck in upcoming negotiations. On Thursday, the powerful Senate Finance

Project Gutenberg’s founder, Michael Hart, passed away this week. Please read our brief obituary. Funeral services are being arranged, probably for Monday September 12 in

By Lyneka Little Tyler Perry is the highest-paid man in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The actor, director and producer known for his crossdressing role

By Ellen Brandt, Ph.D. Think you’re too sophisticated to be terrorized by anonymous thugs? Just wait until they start leaving baby animal carcasses on your

Hi Catherine, I just finished listening to the Flashpoints program (8/31) and your Community Business segment. Here are some ideas that occurred to me while

By Thom Weidlich Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and other banks may pay more to resolve claims over their alleged

Finance minister announces a fresh property tax as PM uses annual speech as rallying call Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos heralded fresh austerity measures over the

By Andrew Zajac Replacing tax deductions with credits for retirement savings would benefit low- and middle- income Americans, federal economic policy expert William Gale told

By Klaus Buchner and Horst Eger This follow-up of 60 participants over one and a half years shows a significant effect on the adrenergic system

By Anthony Cuthbertson It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Unfortunately, modern-day cities

By Michael Ricciardi In the first such analysis ever conducted, Swiss economic researchers have conducted a global network analysis of the most powerful transnational corporations

YouTube (7 Sep 11) SYNOPSIS THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the

This week all Solari Report Subscribers will have access to private content at the Solari Report Blog. If you are a Solari Report Subscriber, look

By Tami Luhby The federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac filed lawsuits Friday against 17 financial institutions, in an attempt to recover billions

By Steven Greenhouse The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice

By Louise Story and Matthew Saltmarsh As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental

By Yves Smith Even though it turns out that Eskimos (Inuit) don’t have as a rich vocabulary of words for snow as urban legend would

Watch this valedictorian speak out about the education she received. This is a fantastic speech. The first mistake is people assume that people with degrees

From a Reader: D. Landreth Seeds is America’s oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed

By Daniel Indiviglio Here’s a chart based on New York Federal Reserve data for household debt. The red line shows the cumulative growth in student

By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus Borrowing looms large in American life from homes to cars. But the explosion of student debt in the last

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By Patrick M. Byrne: For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight,

A free-ranging conversation between Jon Rappoport and Catherine Austin July 2,2011

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By Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn Standard & Poor’s is giving a higher rating to securities backed by subprime home loans, the same type of

By Steve Delahoyde It’s been too long since we’ve had an “architecture in hard times” folk hero. There was John Morefield, the unemployed architect who

Continue reading . . . . . Related reading: Wikileaks Releases Entire 65 Gigabyte Uncensored Cablegate Archive (With Or Without Bank Of America Disclosure) Zero

By Catherine Austin Fitts These two articles illuminate a major food risk that the major food processors and fast food purveyors have kept under wraps

A transcript of Catherine’s August 18, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Entrainment, Subliminal Programming, and Financial Manipulation is now available to Solari Report Subscribers.

Released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a formal enforcement action against the Goldman

By Paul Kiel This post has been updated to reflect Bank of America’s response. The state of Nevada dramatically expanded its lawsuit against Bank of

By Catherine Austin Fitts (in the first person) and Carolyn Betts The Administration is now proposing the transfer of significant defaulted mortgages and foreclosed properties

By Democracy Now! As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary

Nothing inspires me more than talented young entrepreneurs creating new businesses. AND I am always on the hunt for fresh, organic lotions, cleaners and other products

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By Deena Stryker An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the

By Roger Arnold New York (RealMoney) — The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to begin. The federal government

By Miles Weiss BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s largest money manager, is seeking regulatory clearance for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow proprietary indexes rather

By Catherine Austin Fitts Here we go again. Another “official reality” of the financial coup’ d’etat. This one is about AIG. The last one I

By Catherine Austin Fitts I am a suspicious person. When the dollar started to soar and gold tank on Tuesday shortly before an earthquake hit

By Catherine Austin Fitts Gold is a metal. If everyone takes all their money out of operating enterprises and puts it in gold and pays

By Yahoo! Finance Energy company Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) plans to hire 11,000 workers in North America in 2011, a top executive told Cramer Wednesday.? Jim

By a Solari Report Subscriber There’s even more fraud than you guys discussed.  I am an attorney in Ohio doing foreclosure defense work (mostly pro

By Nomi Prins The Goldman Sachs CEO didn’t get a big-time criminal-defense lawyer because he’s worried about an SEC wrist slap—there’s a real possibility of

By  Aridzonan_13 Introduction: After being laid off from a large SW utility’s solar testing facility(LSWU), another former employee of the same utility and I joined

By the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Since 1978 the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has hosted an annual economic policy symposium. The event

By Brandon Smith The year was 2002, and while the majority of Americans were completely obsessed with the so called “War On Terror” and other

Bernie Sanders on The Ten Worst Corporate Tax Avoiders: It’s Time for Them to Pay up and Share the Sacrifice The following is a news

As gold has soared close to $1,900 an ounce on market turmoil in recent weeks, the SPDR Gold Shares exchange traded fund GLD, has passed