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By Catherine Austin Fitts

This coming week, we complete the publication of our 2020 Annual Wrap Up with the theme: The Going Direct Reset with John Titus.

As a reminder, the Going Direct Reset was approved at the G7 central bankers’ meeting in Jackson Hole on August 22, 2019. It is sometimes confused with The Great Reset promoted by the World Economic Forum, which, as we will see, is not where the real power lines can be found.

The Going Direct Reset is about the re-engineering of our financial system. The U.S. dollar reserve currency system is aging, and plans are underway for a new global financial system aimed at increasing centralized global control through the use of digital technology and telecommunications and the end of liquid currencies as we know them. Our recent publication The State of Our Currencies is recommended background for this presentation.

In our discussion, John summarizes what the Going Direct Reset is, outlining the timeline and Federal Reserve actions that unfolded after the plan was approved. As John has said about the Fed’s Quantitative Easing interventions and the takedown of the economy since the announcement of the Going Direct Reset, “This is a very engineered event.” John’s full written presentation will be published at the web presentation, with a wealth of charts and graphs, descriptions, and a full chronology. We have also added an update from Rob Kirby on the derivatives market during this period.

This is an outstanding presentation from John Titus about the forces that are rocking our world. You do not want to miss it.

Food for the Soul culture scout Nina Heyn has prepared a collection of movies about living through economic change as well as a beautiful review of paintings focused on Jesus throwing the moneychangers out of the Temple.

In Let’s Go to the Movies, I suggest watching the documentary The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, which details the transformation of the UK from a colonial superpower to a global financial superpower through the combination of the City of London and the extensive offshore haven system.

It is the last week of the month, so no Money & Markets. E-mail your questions for Ask Catherine or post at the Money & Markets commentary for the first week in February here.

Please join us this Thursday, January 28th, for the 2020 Annual Wrap Up: The Going Direct Reset. This presentation of our Wrap Up theme offers invaluable insights for those who wish to maintain their sovereignty as human beings, and their freedom.

Talk to you Thursday!

Related Reading:

The State of Our Currencies

Best Evidence: John Titus’ YouTube channel

Blackrock & Blackrock Investment Institute:

Dealing with the next downturn:
From unconventional monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination

Larry Fink’s 2019 Letter to CEOs: Profit & Purpose

2020 Midyear Outlook The Future is Running at Us

Blackrock Investment Institute Davos Brief

Blackrock Investment Institute Davos Brief PDF

69 Comments

  1. Looking forward to this report. Your interviews with John Titus are some of my favorites. Very informative!

    Thank you both!

  2. Dear Catherine,

    I only came across your work relatively recently, but I’m delighted I did so. Thank you for everything you do to expose what’s really going on in the world.

    I was wondering if you (or any subscribers) could help me with the answer to a couple of questions, based on interviews I’ve heard you give.

    1) The concept of “perfecting collateral”. What exactly does this mean?

    2) You mentioned that the eighteenth/nineteenth century slave trades died out, not because they were abolished per se (as we’ve led to believe), but due to protests from insurance providers. Why was this?

    Thanks again,

    Thomas Curran

      1. Thank you for the clarification Catherine, apologies for misquoting you.

        I just finished watching your interview with John Titus, fascinating stuff. I love his “Mafiacracy Now” video series. Looking forward to the future shows.

        You mentioned Bitcoin (briefly). I’m a Bitcoin bull, I expect it to continue to perform very well this year. However, I agree that it’s being manipulated and won’t last long term. Based on Bitcoin’s typical four year boom/bust cycle, my current prediction is that after it peaks this year, we’ll see yet another long “crypto winter”, followed by its final bull run in 2025. Once it inevitably crashes from there, I think it will be outlawed/disappeared in some way, and that’s the time CBDCs will be ushered in to replace it, and all the other cryptos that still exist at that time.

        Of course it could happen sooner (i.e., after this year’s bull run), but I don’t think Carstens, Powell, Lagarde, Georgieva and Co. are ready just yet.

        This is simply my best guess at this stage.

    2. Perfecting collateral is placing a lien against property so that buyers or subsequent lenders have notice there is a debt against the property. With real estate this is done with mortgages; personal property like cars have liens on the title. These are then recorded with the register of deeds, secretary of state and so on. This is how all are made aware of liens against property. You can’t do this with a person, however, unless perhaps you brand them. Even so, a slave can run away. Also, Catherine pointed out, the slave owners borrowed money on their slaves and then sold them without repaying the debt – basically the collateral disappeared. Insurance companies would lose money if they insured the slave owner or the creditor against the loss of a slave (collateral) for the same reason. Hence, their revolt and refusal – they only insure when the odds are in their favor.

      1. Dear Pam,

        Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my questions, much appreciated.

      2. There was an incident where a slave ship hit the doldrums. The cargo wasn’t insured against death by starvation or dehydration. They were, however, insured against drowning – a risk that wasn’t too likely. The slavers threw the slaves overboard so they could collect the insurance. Another reason for insurance companies to revolt.

  4. “The Spider’s Web” is horrifying and I’m certain it can be replicated in the U.S. This explains absolutely everything that seems to be mysterious and unexplainable here. It’s a cancer. The solution would require people to awaken in mass. But as long as MSM is the primary ‘educator’ to the general public, I don’t see a viable solution. Perhaps starting a people’s news network quite unlike the bought and paid for NPR/PBS can be arranged?

    1. Hmmmm…that is what we all have been doing these many years.

      You will see in Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits describes how as the money went missing from DOD and HUD, the amount of money in the offshore havens grew by a similar amount.

      What a coincidence!

  5. well over a decade ago i was on a train in Switzerland, going to or from St Gallen, sharing a compartment with Kashya, a talkative & sexy East European woman who for some reason shared her views of the Swiss with me–“my husband is at the central bank,” she said, and with his friends they ran the country. The Swiss are guests in their own country, she explained. she claimed to be the wife of Philipp Hildebrand; i was impressed with her forthrightness but surprised by the arrogance. a few years later i saw her again, in the newspapers–
    https://www.politico.eu/article/central-bankers-in-the-line-of-fire/

    2. Fortuitous numerology for messages.

      Hildebrand’s wife, Kashya, exchanged 400,000 Swiss francs (€330,000) into dollars … If Enria were to resign or – God forbid – be forced out by a scandal in the near future, bank regulators everywhere would get the message: “Nice job you have there – it would be a shame if anything happened to it.”

  6. Catherine

    In my profession the conversations I have with with people that I train have a similar structure as the conversations you have with John. Let them take the lead and see what they can do and where it goes. John Titus is a fantastic addition. Our time on this planet is certainly well spent sharing knowledge and experience to those that want to know. Thanks for your many insights on building real sustainability in all areas.

  7. Could you comment on the potential impact of the GME short squeeze and it’s potential to create havoc?

    1. Suggest you read the last three stories on the situation at Wall Street Parade. This is not a “retail investor” phenomenon. I would note that Reddit has a !50MM investment from Tencent. With a new Administration, seems to me that Game Stop offers a serious opportunity for anyone with significant content who can benefit from that access.
      Will see how this plays. But it looks to me that the Dark Pools/NY central bank crew has set this up. Where they want to take it remains to be seen.

      1. Hopefully the underlying companies also find a way to benefit.

        https://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-insiders-likely-cant-cash-in-stock-all-time-high-2021-1
        AMC, whose stock climbed 180% this week, went so far as to leverage the stock frenzy. It wiped out $600 million in debt when a private equity firm elected to convert its corporate bonds into AMC stock. Crenshaw said she thinks GameStop should try to address the situation proactively, like AMC did, rather than waiting out the storm. “There has got to be a way to use some of this to strengthen the company rather than wait for it to grow weak again,” she said.

        1. Check out Wall Street on Parade. Best coverage so far on the GameStop run up.

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