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January 12, 2012 This week Franklin Sanders and I will provide a wrap up for silver and gold in 2011 and our outlook for 2012. We will review the most important events in 2011 and make our price predictions for 2012. Volatility was the word that defined 2011. Silver started the year at $30.67 rose to a high close of $48.70 at the end of April and then dropped, closing the year down at $28.18. We will start with Money & Markets and Franklin’s update on the gold and silver markets. Franklin and I will focus on questions on precious metals. Post your questions in the comments section for this blog post. In Let's Go to the Movies, a comment on Cedar Creek Productions wonderful documentary Buck, about horse whisperer Buck Brannaman. |
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January 5, 2012 This is the year we have all been waiting for…2012. It will be an interesting year — full of challenges, opportunities and surprises. Change is in the air. We are moving through multiple changes – in our lives and in the culture and economy around us. It is a time to remember that breakdowns bring breakthroughs. This Thursday night on The Solari Report is my annual wrap up. I will cover the key events of 2011 and important trends going forward into 2012. In Let’s Go to the Movies, a comment on what the Afghan game of buzkashi (see scenes in Rambo 3 and The Horsemen) can teach us about managing our finances in markets defined by intense economic warfare. This will be a two hour special with a transcript available later this month. |
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December 15, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with former diplomat, professor, historian and poet, Peter Dale Scott. Peter is the author of numerous books on American political history and “deep politics.” I recently reviewed his latest book, The American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan: "Peter Dale Scott... has long been considered mandatory reading for serious students of the “deep politics” of American power. His new book, however, is a tour de force, integrating decades of serious scholarship and unique insight and sources. Skillfully written, it abounds with the grace and forgiveness of the mature master who appreciates that positive solutions begin with transparency about the means – as well as collective complicity and denial – that delivered us into our current condition." |
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December 8, 2011 I am looking forward to being back in Tennessee at Franklin Sanders' homestead for this week's precious metals reports. There is certainly a lot to talk about. I will start with Money & Markets. I have a lot more to tell you about what I learned during the last few weeks in Switzerland and Austria. Things look very different on this side of the Atlantic. Franklin and I will focus on questions on precious metals, so make sure to post your questions here at the blog, send by e-mail or post on the webinar software when we are live. I also want to review with Franklin the steps you can take to be more resilient for 2012. |
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December 1, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with Foster Gamble, the creator, author and narrator of the new documentary Thrive. I first met Foster and his wife Kimberly, who directed the film, in 2006 when they began filming. I have had the opportunity to visit with them and stay in touch as their journey progressed. As I described in my review of Thrive, Foster’s and Kimberly’s leadership and courage in contributing to a global conversation in this real, positive manner are a source of inspiration to me. I want you to meet Foster and have the opportunity to pose questions for me to ask him – so post them here on the private subscriber space before the call or in the webinar software if you listen live. Foster will inspire and energize you. He is a man who brings hope and makes positive things happen wherever he goes. |
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November 17, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with scientist and author Dr. William A. Tiller. Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Tiller is a professor emeritus of Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science, spending 34 years in academia after 9 years as an advisory physicist with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories. He has published over 250 conventional scientific papers, 3 books and several patents. In parallel, for over 30 years, he has been avocationally pursuing serious experimental and theoretical study of the field of psychoenergetics, publishing an additional 100 scientific papers and four seminal books. We will be speaking about scientific support for the power of intention to impact our world. Be prepared to have your world view shifted in a very wonderful way! |
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November 10, 2011 This week Franklin Sanders and I will be joined by attorney and constitutional scholar Edwin Viera, author of Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution. We will be talking about the Constitutional basis for our current currency system as well as new developments underway, including state legislative efforts to support the use of silver and gold in daily transactions. Edwin is working on a new book. Hopefully, he can update us on it – it is quite exciting. I also want to touch on ill-advised efforts to open up and compromise the Constitution in the guise of “grassroots reform.” |
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November 3, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley about his new play Sleeping Demons, the third play in his trilogy Church and State, which includes the award-winning Doubt. The first scene of Sleeping Demons opens with a man trying to persuade a banker not to foreclose on his wife’s home in New York City. The plot moves us through the woes of one foreclosure as it becomes embroiled in the political trials of the local borough president and the spiritual and financial crisis of a store front church run by a preacher who left New Orleans and is still trying to recover from what he saw during Katrina. Shanley weaves a story of redemption inside the intimate emotional and cultural madness of our current situation. |
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October 20, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report we are in for a special treat. Filmmaker and blogger Jamie Johnson joins us to talk about engaging America in a real conversation. Jamie has made two documentaries that are not to be missed: In Born Rich, Jamie persuades friends and family to speak on camera about what it is like to grow up in a very wealthy family. In The One Percent, Jamie explores ”the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans – the one percent – to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States.” The more authentic human conversations we have in America, the better chance we have of transforming our situation. These conversations take courage and they benefit from a sense of amusement. Jamie Johnson has valuable lessons to teach us about what it takes to inspire them and how to participate. |
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October 13, 2011 Events in the financial and precious metals markets are a clear indication of the tremendous change underway. I am back in Tennessee and headed east on Thursday to join Franklin Sanders for dinner and the Precious Metals Markets Report. Franklin will update us on precious metals markets and the events of the last month. Then we are going to review the precious metals markets over the last decade and major price swings along the way, including in 2006 and 2008. Check out the charts posted on the private blog on gold and silver’s volatility since 2003.We will revisit our price expectations for 2011 and address the conundrum facing investors looking to preserve wealth today: managing volatility vs. enduring debasement. |
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October 6, 2011 This Thursday night on The Solari Report is our 3rd Quarter Wrap Up. These quarterly wrap ups are a time when I like to take the long view – particularly as to investment trends and what it means to your personal and asset strategies. We will talk about the slow burn – will it continue or is a significant melt down of the kind we saw in 2008 likely? Also – why in the face of all the bad news do I continue to be optimistic about the long term trends? If you have not listened to my interview with Adam Trombly on Zero Point Energy, I encourage you to do so. Money and Markets will be integrated into my review of the most important trends impacting both immediate and long term assets values. In Let’s Go to the Movies, a review of the movie Longitude and what it says about the role of technology and innovation in the economy ahead. |
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September 22, 2011 I will be speaking with Adam Trombly, director of Project Earth on Zero Point Energy – what is it, the likelihood that it will be integrated into our everyday world and what that would mean for humanity, culture and the global investment model. Adam Trombly is a scientist with years of experience as an inventor working with game changing energy and geophysical technologies. In the process, he was challenged to understand global efforts to control and manipulate advanced technologies and the people and enterprises that might popularize them. Adam was a sponsor of the conference I attended in Switzerland last year that brought together energy scientists and engineers from Europe and America in a panel that was the most enlightening and inspiring presentation I have seen in years. Adam is also featured in the upcoming documentary Thrive. |
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September 15, 2011 I will be speaking with Peter Ireland, proprietor of antiventurecapital.com. and author of The Smart Startup Guide: Creative Financing for Savvy Entrepreneurs Who Need to Launch Their Startups Now Without Venture or Angel Capital and Closing Investors Like a Deal-maker: Your Best Strategy for Successfully Raising Money from Private Investors. Peter's Smart Startup Guide is the single best book I have found to teach young or new entrepreneurs how starting and financing a business really works. If capital is a tool that the financial centers use to control, then learning how to build our economy by starting and financing new businesses is part of living free and achieving financial independence. |
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September 8, 2011 Numerous issues are coming to a head — sovereign debt, mortgage debt, student debt are just a few I will talk about on Thursday evening on this week’s Solari Report. There is growing panic as more and more people come to appreciate the instability in the various systems and leadership behavior. The recent rises in precious metals prices reflect the wider concern. Gold is the safe haven place to be right now. Franklin Sanders will join me to review recent developments in the precious metals markets and a discussion of the outlook for the fall. Then a discussion of what it is going to take to turn around the economy inspired by feedback to my commentary “Its Time to Bring Our Mortgages Home” and Franklin’s Revitalizing Local Economies and Restoring Freedom in Tennessee. I also want to talk about how and when local investment can increase or decrease your overall investment risk. |
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September 1, 2011 This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I will be speaking with Dr. Samuel Milham, a physician-epidemiologist specializing in public health. Dr Milham has published extensively for decades in scientific publications regarding the occupational cancer risks of electromagnetic fields. Last year, he published a popular review of his findings, Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization. This is a fascinating, well written book on a topic of great importance to you and your family. Most of us pay utility bills. It is a very significant financial item over a life time. We also pay taxes for regulation of utility services. Are we getting our money’s worth? When we assess the various risks related to health or personal privacy, do the economics of getting "off the grid" pencil out very differently than we think? |
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August 18, 2011 This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I will be speaking with scientist Adam Trombly about the use of entrainment technology and subliminal programing to engineer financial transactions. It's hard enough to protect ourselves against dirty tricks. It is another thing to protect ourselves against invisible technology and dirty tricks that we cannot even fathom exists. I will talk about entrainment and subliminal programing — what is it, how it works, how we guard ourselves against it and how we compete in a market place up against people who use it for power and profits. |
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August 11, 2011 This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precious Metals Market Report: Mr. Global’s Squeeze Play. Franklin Sanders and I clearly have lots to talk about. First and foremost, the meaning of the S&P downgrade and the impact on markets, particularly precious metals. We will revisit our annual forecasts, both for prices as well as probabilities for core scenarios, particularly Slow Burn vs. 2008 Redux. We will also connect some dots, touching on two recent blog posts: My response to Federal Budget 101 and Unanswered Questions About Rawesome Foods |
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August 4, 2011 This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I are more than pleased to welcome Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund for a discussion of how you access and maintain a delicious, healthy diet and connect with the people in your area and your networks that can help you do so. We will talk about the significant forces arrayed against food freedom and what the Foundation and Fund are doing about it. |
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July 21, 2011 This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I interview Scott Tips, president of the National Health Federation. Scott is an attorney and an expert on Codex Alimentarius. He will be speaking with us from Paris. Codex Alimentarius are international standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods and food production. The Codex texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). |
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July 14, 2011 This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precious Metals Market Report, and Franklin Sanders and I have lots to talk about. First and foremost, if the summer correction is here, why are prices so strong? What will the upcoming debt deal and appropriation reconciliations mean for precious metals? What are the fundamental rules of investing we need to respect when anticipating the possibility of the next leg up in precious metals prices? Last week, on the Second Quarter Wrap-up, I described what recent events tell us about the move to a more centralized currency system. We got several questions regarding precious metals role in a global currency system that I would like to answer. |
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July 7, 2011 In our year-end wrap up, 2010: The Road Turns East, I said that in 2011 the economy would continue in a Slow Burn. Indeed it has. In the second quarter, numerous events underscored how the political economy is engineering the slow burn, including the maintenance of the dollar as the global reserve currency and the shift towards a new global currency system. Our wrap up will look at the events of the second quarter through the lens of the use of the financial system as a governance system - re-enengineering sovereign nations through a combination of credit and debt management, free trade agreements and IMF deals. Indeed the system has become so bold that the head of the IMF can be removed with a tabloid sex charge, only to have the accusations come apart as soon as the preferred replacement is approved by the IMF board. |
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June 23, 2011 I am doing a series on "unpacking financial and investment advice." This Thursday, I will focus on investment advice in Part II. It's time to step back and review some "best practices" on dealing with investments and the investment world. That includes "talking turkey" about some of the tactics and dirty tricks used to trigger fear and greed and how to avoid falling into the traps. I am increasingly alarmed at the time I spend persuading individual clients and subscribers to ignore or be more selective when sorting through advice consumed through TV, Internet and other media and sometimes combined with market manipulations that play on fear and greed. It is serious business when real money is at stake. |
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June 16, 2011 For the next two weeks, I will be briefing Solari Report subscribers on “unpacking financial and investment advice.” This Thursday, I will focus on financial advice in Part I. I am increasingly alarmed at the time I spend persuading individual clients and subscribers to ignore or be more selective when sorting through advice consumed through TV, Internet and other media and sometimes combined with market manipulations that play on fear and greed. |
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June 9, 2011 Monitoring and researching the gold and silver markets is something I do each day. However, there is nothing I enjoy more than stepping back once a month to chew on these subjects with Franklin Sanders on our Solari Report. Sure enough, this week it’s the Precious Metals Market Report. Franklin and I have lots to talk about - if the summer correction is here, why is gold hitting new highs? What’s happening to the gold-silver ratio? Those in a position to swap from silver to gold in early May are glad they did. Will it stay that way? |
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June 2, 2011 This week on the Solari Report I will interview Bertram Verhaag of Denkmal Films, producer and director of Scientists Under Attack. To understand the financial markets, you need to understand the assets that are financed - both in enterprises and in places - and how the people who run them are managed, monitored and controlled. One of the most critical control points in our society is the ability to threaten, muzzle and cut off funding to researchers and scientists who have indeed "said something, done something. There is no one more heroic than a producer and director such as Verhaag who gives a platform and voice to those who would use science and our natural environment to enlighten and give life. Here is the transparency that is the basis of freedom, markets and civilization. |
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May 19, 2011 Jim Norman’s book The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century is one of the most important books you can read to understand the economy and financial markets today. In The Oil Card, Jim makes the case that a suppressed oil price was the most important strategic variable in bringing down the Soviet Union two decades ago and that engineering an inflated oil price is now being used to keep China in check. The war in Iraq was driven, Jim writes, first and foremost by the importance of keeping the oil price up and China out of a strategic position in the Middle East. |
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May 12, 2011 This Thursday evening, Franklin Sanders and I will be talking about what has happened and the outlook for gold and silver given the power with which this correction has begun. The correction that Franklin and I have discussed with you is underway as we approach the summer months which are traditionally the low period for precious metals prices. As I said last week, the slow burn has reasserted itself with a vengeance. My bet is that includes a covert QE3 to support the dollar. Franklin will also cover our eighth date in our series on the top ten dates in the American history of precious metals. An updated transcript of the first seven will be posted at your cart. |
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May 5, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Adjunct Harriman Professor of Government at William & Mary College. Colonel Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff from 2002-05, Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs from 2001-02. I am going to ask Colonel Wilkerson to take you inside the Washington machinery and help you look at things from the point of view of someone managing the federal resources and commitments globally, how that relates to a variety of corporate and private investment interests and the implications for the financial and commodities markets as well as the outlook for the US dollar. |
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April 21, 2011 This Thursday evening, I will be speaking with B. Blake Levitt about Smart Grids. Blake is an award-winning medical and science journalist, a former New York Times writer, and author of "Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer"s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves," for which she won a chapter award of excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. She is also the editor of "Cell Towers." Blake joined us on The Solari Report in March to discuss electromagnetic fields and the risks posed by the explosion of wireless technologies around us. One topic emerged as both important and urgent - smart grids. |
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April 14, 2011 I am headed over to middle Tennessee to join Franklin Sanders for our Precious Metals Market Report this Thursday evening. The silver and gold markets continue to be strong - with silver and gold reaching new nominal highs this last week. Franklin and I want to discuss what is supporting the continued rise. Note that last week in the 1st Quarter Wrap-up, I increased the odds of a 2008 type meltdown for my economic scenarios for 2011. Developments in Japan and the Middle East combined with the continued fall of the dollar all signal continuing trouble. Franklin and I will cover the signs that have traditionally indicated that a price correction is likely to help you monitor market developments as we approach the Summer - the period during the year when precious metals prices tend to be the weakest. |
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April 7, 2011 In our year-end wrap up, 2010: The Road Turns East, I said that in 2011 the economy would continue in a Slow Burn. As currency debasement eats through household savings, however, the squeeze is more challenging. Many of us are shifting networks and careers, not to mention the way we see things. That is why our Solari Report theme for 2011, “Slow Burn on the Prairie” celebrates our strengths to manage the path we are traveling. If you have had a chance to review our write up of the January year-end wrap up, it is excellent background for our discussion this week. Subscribers will find it at their control panel in the archives. |
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March 24, 2011 This week's Solari Report may arguably be one of the toughest topics we’ve ever covered. I will be talking with Dr. Gwen Scott about aerosol spraying (often called chemtrails), the impact on our health and actions we can take to protect ourselves. This includes a discussion of Morgellon’s disease and Clifford Carnicom’s latest research, republished this month on the blog (See 1,2). Global spraying programs are having a significant impact on our health. Carnicom’s testing indicates that the changes can be observed throughout our population. While unpleasant to contemplate, there are a number of very important steps we can each take to mitigate the impact on ourselves and those we love.
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March 17, 2011 This Thursday evening on The Solari Report I will be speaking with best-selling author Geneen Roth about her new book Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money. In December 2008, Geneen answered her kitchen phone, and was informed that all the money she and her husband had invested with Bernie Madoff was gone. As she wrote at the time: "I go to sleep at night oscillating between ranting about Madoff and being terrified that we won’t be able to keep our house. But then I realize that the real suffering (for me) is not living without money; it’s living inside this ranting mind." And special guest, Dr. Laura Thompson talks about Mitigating Against Radiation Poisoning. [A transcript of this segment is available to Solari Report Subscribers through the archives at the Subscriber Control Panel.] |
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February 10, 2011
I am back in Tennessee, so I am headed over to Top of the World Farm on Thursday evening to have dinner with Franklin and Susan Sanders and to do our Precious Metals Market Report. It feels like a homecoming! There is a lot to cover. Last month, Franklin and I covered our outlook for the silver and gold markets in 2011. This month, we want to look at the current market and the extraordinary stress in economies and markets globally and discuss whether or not we still believe that a correction is likely. |
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February 3, 2011
This Thursday evening on The Solari Report, I will be talking with Chris Martenson about his efforts to help people understand what is happening in "economy, energy and environment." Chris began a successful career in corporate America until leaving in 2005, changing his lifestyle and publishing "The Crash Course," a 3 1/2 hour video which has become an Internet sensation. In his positive style, he has followed it up with a section on his website, "What Should I Do?" |
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January 20, 2011
This Thursday on The Solari Report I will be speaking with the leading independent U.S. pollster, Scott Rasmussen, founder of Rasmussen Reports, about what Americans are thinking and feeling and what that means for the country and our political leadership over the year ahead. We will also speak about Scott’s excellent book, In Search of Self Governance, and the power of civic and grassroots action. |
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January 13, 2011
This Thursday night is our first precious metals Solari Report of the new year. Franklin and I will talk about what happened in 2010 and share our outlook for the silver and gold markets in 2011. One of our expectations is that we will experience greater volatility in all markets, as well as in the general environment. Part of our discussion will focus on ways of successfully managing in the midst of rising volatility and uncertainty. |
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January 6, 2011
The center of economic and financial gravity shifted eastward in 2010. The decade began with North America and Europe leading the planet economically and culturally. It ended with them branded by aging populations, fraudulent financial sectors, and expensive military. The emerging markets, particularly Asia, flowered in no small part thanks to first world investment over the last two decades while Eurasia emerged as the hot spot reflecting the competition of the US, China and Russia for resources. |
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December 16, 2010 I used to have a very smart partner who, while observing the growing financial corruption, often asked “Who’s doing this?” He was voicing our general frustration about living in a world governed by people who remain invisible. We want to know who is in charge and what is driving their decisions. Enter Daniel Estulin, the globe-trotting investigative reporter that has made it his business to determine who is pulling the real strings and what their goals and plans are. |
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December 9, 2010 I am in Philadelphia, so Franklin and I are conspiring by phone this month! As usual, we have plenty to cover, including December highs and swapping action on the gold-silver ratio. We will be addressing historical price patterns in the first quarter of the year. If December and the fourth quarter are a period of high prices for precious metals, what are the trading patterns that have historically followed in the new year? What does it say about the possibilities of a market consolidation early in 2011? |
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December 1, 2010 I am in Philadelphia helping a very dear friend transition from her independent living community to an assisted community, with an interim stay in a hospital and nursing facility. As a result, the importance of organizing our affairs is very much on my mind. So I am particularly delighted that Charles Murray, President of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), will be joining me on the Solari Report this Thursday. |
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November 18, 2010 Axel Merk is the author of Sustainable Wealth: Achieve Financial Security in a Volatile World of Debt and Consumption and is President and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Investments, a Palo Alto, California based mutual fund management company. Axel is one of the clearest thinkers on the currency and bond markets today. His business places him in the daily flow of the most global, sophisticated part of the financial markets. Yet, he also has an excellent grasp on personal finance and the issues related to building and preserving family wealth. |
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November 11, 2010 We have a lot to talk about, including the continued rise in precious metals prices, the meaning of the World Bank president's trial balloon of an international gold standard at the G-20 summit and the decline in the gold-silver ratio. In Money & Markets I will focus on precious metals questions. Solari published a special report this week for subscribers first on U.S. tax treatment of gold transfers, including from unallocated pools to allocated holdings. I will cover this material as well. Subscribers can access the report a the Subscriber Control Panel. In Let's Go to the Movies I will review Kyle Thiermann's video short "Buy Local, Surf Global." |
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November 4, 2010 John Laughland is a British philosopher and historian. He serves as the Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris. I will be talking with John about current events in Europe, including the geopolitics of currency and sovereign debt wars and what they mean to the future of the European Union. I will ask John to update us on his analysis described in his article this summer, "Why the Euro Will Fail." I will review the new documentary "Inside Job" which documents the officially sanctioned theft of trillions through a fraudulent US mortgage and mortgage securities market. |
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October 21, 2010 On this week's Solari Report I will be speaking with nutrition and neurofeedback practitioner Nora Gedgaudas. Nora is the author of Primal Body, Primal Mind: Empower Your Total Health the Way Evolution Intended (And Didn't.) While I focus on protecting my clients' money from the ravages of inflation and financial fraud, Nora spends her time trying to protect her clients' health from the ravages of processed diets, vaccines and environmental pollution. Indeed, the two efforts are intimately connected. Ultimately, the political and corporate leadership who are expanding the money supply and engaging in financial fraud are the same or affiliated leadership to those profiting from a range of policies and practices that cause or lead to many health problems. |
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October 14, 2010 At the beginning of 2010, I predicted that the high for the gold price this year would be 1350. Well, the price is through that at 1352 and we have most of the fourth quarter to go. Given that the high month for five of the last ten years has been December, I have been considering what a revised high price expectation might be. Franklin will address what's behind the tremendous movement in the silver and gold markets and we will address your questions, including whether we are approaching an opportunity to trade the gold-silver ratio. In response to subscribers requests, we have published a special report this week on the history of the IRA and 401k annuity proposals which we will cover - what specifically could the proposals look like? |
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October 7, 2010 Topics: IRAs and 401(k)s: The Trap Door Starts to Close, American and European Retirement Benefits: Is There Any There There?, Election 2010, The Gulf Oil Spill, The Squeeze on Wall Street, Health Care, Food & Internet "Reform", Energy Technology: Time to Come Out of the Closet?, Are the Black Budget Boys Leaving the Bilderbergers Behind?, Unemployment: No End Game in Site, UFOs: the Next Scare Tactic?, Housing and Real Estate Markets: More Mortgages than Houses?, Municipal Markets: Will Drug Reform Bolster Municipal Credits?, Equity Markets: The Shift to the Emerging Markets, Bond Markets: Sovereign Debt Wars, Currency Markets: Downing the Dollar, Commodities and Precious Metals: Up, Up & Away, The Bottom Line: Can the Slow Burn Continue?, Heroes & Opportunities. |
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September 23, 2010 The Buddha’s last words were said to be. . . "work out your own salvation with diligence." He might have well been speaking of the Swiss. Switzerland seemed an appropriate place to report on some of my thoughts about what those of us who live in countries that have pretended rather than prepared should now do to work out our salvation with diligence. I will cover Money & Markets, answer questions in Ask Catherine and for "Let’s Go To The Movies" I will review my favorite TV series, Battlestar Galactica. |
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September 16, 2010 This Thursday I will be speaking with Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California - San Francisco’s Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr. Lustig is nationally recognized in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is interested in how biochemical, neural, hormonal and genetic influences contribute to obesity in children and adults. |
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September 9, 2010 Franklin addresses recent developments in the silver and gold markets. With fall approaching, silver and gold appear to be moving up to their next prices levels. We have many questions from subscribers, and we want to answer as many of those as possible. This includes questions on our recent Solari Special Report: Options for Storing Precious Metal. We also discuss the second part of Franklin’s #4 pick in the top 10 dates in the history of silver and gold - the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. |
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September 2, 2010 Richard Dolan’s latest book, UFOs & the National Security State: The Cover Up Exposed, 1973-1991, describes the UFO phenomenon in a comprehensive and professional way and documents the profound impact that managing this phenomenon in extreme secrecy has had on our society. If Richard Dolan is right, the UFO phenomenon is at the core of the creation of the National Security State and the Tapeworm Economy. |
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August 19, 2010 This Thursday, I will be speaking with Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania about his marvelous translation of the classic military treatise, The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods. The Art of War is an ancient Chinese text, written by a collection of authors during a period known as the late Warring States (475-221 BC). Its importance in the teaching of military strategy in the West was established after America’s defeat in Vietnam. |
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August 12, 2010 This Thursday, I am headed over to Top of the World Farm to join Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger for the Precious Metals Market Report. We will address a topic very much on our minds - the role of precious metals in developing local economies. As background, you will enjoy Franklin’s recent talk about revitalizing local economies. As fiat currencies grow more unstable, adopting currencies that we can trust is critical to creating income, reducing expenses and building and preserving equity for ourselves and our families. |
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August 5, 2010 This Thursday on the Solari Report, I will be speaking with Dr. Riki Ott, the Alaskan marine toxicologist helping fisherman and residents in the Gulf of Mexico. Riki helped lead the response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the effort to hold Exxon accountable, including two decades of litigation that went all the way to the Supreme Court. We will cover: What is happening to the people and living ecosystem of the Gulf? why dispersants? Why corexit? What are the impacts on people and places? Is the well kill for real? Will the relief wells work? |
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July 22, 2010 This Thursday on the Solari Report, I will be speaking with Dr. Nick Begich, founder of Earthpulse Press in Anchorage, Alaska. Among many other accomplishments, Dr. Begich is the foremost public authority on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), founded in 1993 in Gakona, Alaska and operated by the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory in affiliation with the University of Alaska |
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July 15, 2010 This Thursday night, I will talk with Bob Sullivan about how you can protect yourself and your family from identity theft. Bob Sullivan is an award winning journalist covering internet and financial fraud for MSNBC. Bob is widely considered the top reporter on identity theft, blogging on this and other frauds at The Red Tape Chronicles. He published his first book Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic in 2004 and has authored over 100 articles on the topic. |
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July 8, 2010 This week Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger will be joining us from Top of the World Farm as usual. Special guest James Turk, founder of GoldMoney, will be joining from New Hampshire, where he is spending summer months away from his home in Europe. I will be joining from London where I will attending a shareholders’ meeting for a private fund, while David Liechty manages Solari Silver & Gold back in Tennessee. |
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July 1, 2010 In this Solari Report, we will talk about: The Gulf Oil Spill Changes Everything; China, Russia, & the Politics of Eurasia'; Natural Resource, Trade Wars by Every Other Name; Financial Reform & Goldman Whac-a-Mole; iPad, Quantam Computers; - Technology Continues to Dazzle; G-20, Bilderbergers, Presidents & Premiers: Who is Really in Charge?; Creative; Destruction in Music, Media and More; Unemployment: Is There an End Game?; Why Global Spraying Programs Are a; Pocketbook Issue; Housing and Real Estate Markets; Municipal Markets: State and Local Government Adjusts; Equity; Markets: Nerves Fraying, ETFs: F Stands for Fiat; and Bond Markets: Sovereign Bonds vs. Corporate Bonds. |
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June 17, 2010 If there is something growing faster than the plumes of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico, it is the unanswered questions about what is happening and what it means to all concerned. Catherine speaks on this topic with the person she most trusts to help us understand events in the Gulf and its meaning around the globe, veteran reporter James R. ("Jim") Norman, author of The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century. |
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June 10, 2010 Catherine heads over to join Franklin and Susan Sanders of The Moneychanger for dinner on Thursday night and this week’s Solari Report. There has been unusual activity in the precious metals markets over the last few weeks as concerns about global stock and bond markets continue to grow. The Dow priced in gold continues downward. Topics include seasonal patterns in precious metals prices, including summer lows; what's happening in the physical market; and we revisit storage options. |
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June 3, 2010 Catherine interviews Jim and Linette Crosby of The Crosby Mint Farm. Theirs is a fascinating and inspiring story of their successful effort to save their family farm from bank foreclosure and auction. It's a story about: a debt and banking system that actively works to destroy healthy businesses; about the dirty tricks that are part of economic warfare; about the value of an excellent product that reaches thousands of customer; and about the power of private equity to free us from dependence on the banking system. |
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June 2, 2010 Clifford Carnicom returns for a 2-hour in-depth interview. Mr. Carnicom reviewed his seven areas of research: 1) Environmental Modification & Control, including Weather Control; 2) Biological Operations; 3) Electromagnetic Operations, including HAARP & Cell Towers; 4) Military Applications; 5) Planetary & Geophysical Modification; 6) Global Surveillance System; and 7) Detection of Ionic Disturbances from Propulsion Systems. |
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May 20, 2010 Clifford Carnicom is the leading researcher on chemtrails and founder of the Carnicom Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They talked about Clifford’s journey, his documentary Aerosol Crimes, and they dug deeper into hypotheses which might explain chemtrails. Clifford also discuss recommended resources to help protect our health and to challenge our elected officials. |
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May 13, 2010 The outlines of our situation are becoming clearer to a much wider audience. For many years, there has been an assumption that sovereign governments could print paper and make promises and somehow find ways of making good on all of them. We have long recommended silver and gold as a form of currency that does not depend on government printing presses or military might. Also: CWRoberts Proposes Practical Spill Solutions - video at right. |
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May 6, 2010 Catherine speaks with John Williams, founder of American Business Analytics & Research, LLC In San Francisco, the publisher of ShadowStats.com. John is an economist who has built a remarkable business deciphering government economic statistics and helping a wide range of businesses and investors understand our economy. This is something that is far from simple to do. |
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April 22, 2010 Catherine interviews Dr. Katherine Albrecht, one of the foremost privacy experts in America and founder of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. |
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April 15, 2010 A special report by Catherine Austin Fitts on chemtrails, the spraying program going on in the skies overhead America and in many places around the globe. What are chemtrails? What is in the spray and what does it do to us, our health and environment? What are the possible goals of such a spraying program? |
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April 6, 2010 Catherine Austin Fitts explains why Solari has launched a precious metals dealership—Solari Silver & Gold—in partnership with Franklin Sanders’ The Moneychanger. This is followed by a discussion on why having personal control of your assets grows more attractive as "back-door" capital controls appear, such as the new provisions in the HIRE Act. |
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March 30, 2010 In The Solari Report's 2009 Year-End Wrap-Up, Catherine stated that in 2010, the “Year of the Tiger,” that the road would turn East and that the geopolitics of the Grand Chessboard would dominate capital flows and military actions. This report offers a look back at the events of the past three months, with a discussion of where we are and what’s next. |
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March 18, 2010 Guest Jim Norman has been a senior editor at Forbes magazine, served as the Houston bureau chief for BusinessWeek, and is the author of The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century. Jim is one of those rare experts who can integrate the dots between futures markets in New York, what they mean to global politics from Moscow to Washington, and how this impacts you and me on Main Street. |
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March 11, 2010 Franklin Sanders discusses how—as we have moved to a society where food comes from thousands of miles away—our income and equity have fallen while unemployment has grown. We look at how physical health and "healthy" money are intimately connected in both our personal lives and in financial ecosystems. Also, a special report on HR 4173: The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009. |
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March 4, 2010 Eric Toensmeier discusses permaculture and how it can help you build wealth—whether improving the fertility of your home and landscape, your child’s school and community, or creating new opportunities for local business and investment. Eric is the author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to ‘Zuiki’ Taro, a Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles and co-author of two-volume Edible Forest Gardens. |
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Feb 18, 2010 With three million weekly listeners, Coast to Coast AM is the most listened to overnight radio program in North America. The program's commanding market share reflects host George Noory's passionate interest in exploring every topic under the sun (and in the galaxy), in seeking out experts from all walks of life, and in offering a wide selection of opinions and points-of-view. |
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Feb 11, 2010 The U.S. announces that the federal deficit will hit an all time high, even after keeping the Fannie and Freddie deficits off budget and off balance sheet. Meantime, the dollar is up and gold is off 10+% from the December high. More than a few people are scratching their head and asking “What just happened?” |
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Feb 4, 2010 The subject of Mind control requires us to face the fact that we and the people we love are being manipulated by something that our current education and social status may not be able to protect us from. It is a topic that can be overwhelming, even terrifying. Yet the first step toward protecting ourselves is to be able to understand it. |
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Jan 21, 2010 This week’s Solari Report addresses what may be the most important question facing U.S. citizens during the coming year and for years to come: Under the U.S. Constitution, who has the ultimate authority to determine the legality of an enforcement action and enforce the law in your community? If the Congress legislates and the President signs bills or executive orders that are unconstitutional, who has the power to stop an attempt to enforce in your state or county? |
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Jan 14, 2010 The gold price in dollars rose over 20% last year. Silver was up 35%, platinum up 57% and palladium up 118%. Numerous financial firms large and small are predicting another 20% + rise in gold prices this year. Is that really possible? And what does it say about the state of the US dollar, of our country and the world? In Let’s Go to the Movies, we review, Shut Up and Sing, Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck’s outstanding documentary about the Dixie Chicks. |
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Jan 7, 2010 For years, it was hard for many of us to fathom the psychopathic nature of our financial elites, or to expand the meaning of Matt Tabbi’s marvelous description of Goldman Sachs, the great vampire squid. Squid seems a fitting name for the financial cartel that drives what I have traditionally called the Tapeworm. There were some who saw the danger immediately and tried to warn us, like Sir James Goldsmith. There were some, like myself, who tried to prevent the housing bubble and to create alternatives to investing our life savings in it. |
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