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Catherine’s Latest Crowdfund: Scoop.co.nz to Fly In 2015

CAF Note: Scoop’s contribution to free press globally is a modern day David and Goliath story.  Great reporting requires great publishers and enlightened owners to back them up – and Scoop has been…

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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…

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Breakthrough Energy with Joel Garbon

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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 Fitts

I once fell in love with a man because he reminded me of B…

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part X

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The long Treasury bond is correcting back to the 200 day moving average…

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part IX

“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to learn into that a…

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2014 Annual Wrap-Up: Free and Inspired

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2014 Annual Wrap-Up: Financial Markets Roundup

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2014 Annual Wrap-Up: Money Maps of the World

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2014 Annual Wrap Up: A Free & Inspired Life

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2014 Annual Wrap Up

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part VIII

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  ~Paul Samuelson

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday nig…

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Team Awesome Solari Circle – Part VII

“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” ~ Charlie Munger

By Catherine Austin Fitts

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Team Awesome Solari Circle – Part VI

“Turning off the Bubblevision [your TV] is a great step towards preventing yourself from becoming a slave to the market.” ~James Montier

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday night is Team …

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part V

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” ~ Rene Rivkin

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight is a big one. We will review our allocations and key market indicators and proceed to present ou…

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part IV

“You’ve got to be in it to win it.” ~ Old Saying

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One way to learn about investing is to just do it. Of course, that can be expensive when you are using real money. As one…

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Q3 2014 Wrap-Up: The Shift to Global 3.0

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part III

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight we are going to review the process of analyzing one company for potential investment. As our example, we will use a Danish pharmaceutica…

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Municipal Market Overview with Joe Mysak

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part II

“There is a great advantage for the young capitalist to begin his financial education and experience early. If he is going to operate as an aggressive investor he is certain to make some mistakes an…

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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part I

“Finance has a fascination for many bright young people with limited means. They would like to be both intelligent and enterprising in the placement of their savings, even though investment income…

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2nd Quarter 2014 Wrap Up – Subscriber Resources

A MAJOR OVERHAULING OF INSTITUTIONS “Driving through New Jersey, Nitze [asked] Dillon if he thought the market decline an omen of hard times ahead . . . Dillon thought for a few minutes and replied, �…

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Live Chat: How America Became the United States of Secrets

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For the past year, the Guardian has reported on how the NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor…

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Stakes Rise for Bitcoin Backers as Hackers Attack

Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin

By Philip Pearlman

Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at one…

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V. 2014 Annual Wrap Up: Financial Market Roundup

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Markets go up and down. I really dont worry about it very much. ~ US Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady, 1988 (Personally very wealthy)

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IX. 2014 Annual Wrap Up: And the Winners are…

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2013 Annual Wrap Up

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2013 Annual Wrap-Up: Break Away

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1 – The Slow Burn – 2013 Wrap-Up

The Slow Burn Wins Again
The US Federal Reserve continued Quanitative Easing throughout 2013,
buying up and – I believe – shredding the fraudulent mortgage

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Lightweight and highly efficient all-in-one design pedal assist that fits on practically any bicycle.

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A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathways to Raising Capital

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Complex legal and regulatory requirements govern access to raising private equity capital in the United States.

This  means an entrepreneur looking to finance a start up o…

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Money Morphogenics

By Mayuri Onerheim

I was astounded to listen to the subject weekly Solari Report last night by Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com,  where she was talking to the philosopher Jon Rappaport abou…

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Oldie but Goodie: Where Is The Collateral?

[CAF Note: I had someone tell me the other day that there were no serious warnings regarding the extent of the fraud in the US housing bubble. That is simply not true.. Chris Sanders published this …

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Generations of Family Owned and Operated Bank

“About 32 leading men of the community,” according to the original minute book, assembled December 24, 1883, in Malvern Hall for the purpose of “starting a National Bank of Malvern.”

The Willits Fa…

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Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks with Thomas H. Greco, Jr.

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Quote du Jour

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bambooz…

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Adam Trombly on Zero Point Energy

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Sally Fallon on Nourishing Traditions

 
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Poinsettias

Our thanks to artist and friend, Lesta Frank, for this lovely print.

From Wikipedia: In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, the plant is called Cuitlaxochitl (from cuitlatl=residue, and xochitl=fl…

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Joel Salatin in Santa Barbara

Joel Salatin

Pathways to Relocalization, Carbon Economy Educational Series, December 9th
Santa Barbara Central Library

The Flyer:

Joel Salatin, fulltime family farmer of the highly successful Pol…

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My Bank: How Do I Find a Great Local Bank?

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In 2004, when I wrote “Where Would Jesus Bank,” I started getting a steady flow of question…

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My Family

The Fitts-White Clinic in Jackson, Tennessee

I have had a number of recent requests about my family background.  I thought I would provide a collection of information which will help you understan…

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Money & Markets – Week of 11.16.08

Naomi Klein: Bailout is ‘Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene’
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Dick Morris: Bush signed US into the EU yesterday!
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Switzerland’s Shock Rate Cut Unnerves Market
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Financial Permaculture in Hohenwald – Final Schedule

Click to access the final schedule (page 1, page 2) for the event: Financial Permaculture: The Greening of A Rural American Community, October 24-28, 2008 in Hohenwald, Tennessee.

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A Solari Report – Can Our Own Communities Serve as Financial Safe Havens in Troubled Times?

By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq.

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The fall in global stock market prices over the last year has had a significant impact on most Americans’…

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Our Next Brainstorm: Let’s Bail OUT OF Wall Street

OUR NEXT BRAINSTORM: WHAT ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE TO BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET?

The time has come to purge these people from our lives. How do we do it? Since our readers had such great ideas on the bumper…

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A List of the 20 Funniest Movies – Help!

I have a terrific friend who is coming home from the hospital tomorrow to recuperate from heart surgery. Her doctors say that this kind of surgery triggers feelings of sadness and depression. So I w…

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A Solari Report – Independent Media Sustainability: A Review of Existing Media Capital Structures

Independent Media Sustainability: A Review of Existing Media Capital Structures

By Carolyn Betts, MBA/JD

Anyone who is focused on building wealth—whether personal financial wealth or  community …

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Denial Bliss

Sometimes it pays to NOT understand what is going on. Can you imagine being the person who had to write the current announcement on the Bear Stearns website if you were fully educated to the real deal…

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Kirby’s Letter to WSJ

Rob Kirby wrote to the Wall Street Journal earlier this week:

Kate Kelly:

Congratulations on your article, “Fear, Rumors Touched Off Fatal Run on Bear Stearns.

Quite a story you’ve written there….

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The Most Profitable Economic Hit in History

I was speaking with Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints about our show, Community Business, which we do each Wednesday night. We were talking about Solari Audio seminar, “The REAL Economic Hit Men” I me…

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Loaded for Bear?

Bernanke Lunched with Dimon, Rubin Before Bear Rescue
By Scott Lanman – Blomberg.com (12 May 2008)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke lunched on March 11 with a Who’s Who of Wall Street leade…

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Where Did the People Go?

I remember going to Washington after 9/11 to meet with attorneys whose offices were on one of the beautiful parks in downtown DC. Each trip I noticed less and less African-Americans downtown. At lu…

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The Bear Stearns Buy-Out . . . 100% Fraud

Well, the evidence finally emerges. No market forces at work here. “The boys” done bagged and skinned the Bear for quite a pretty penny:

Bear Stearns Buy-Out . . . 100% Fraud
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More on Bear Stearns-JP Morgan Deal

As if last weekend’s shotgun merger agreement between Bear Stearns and JP Morgan was not wild enough, things just keep getting weirder. Bear Stearns stock is trading above $5, which says something…

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American Bar Association Heaven

Well, now we have a hint as to why the American Bar Association does not seem to object to predatory lending and weekend bailouts. Either that or Sullivan & Cromwell and Skadden Arps are insisti…

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Unanswered Questions About Bear Stearns

I wonder who made money on puts on Bear Stearns stock? Was this a highly profitable economic hit?

SEC: Bear Stearns’s Liquidity Eroded Rapidly Since Tuesday

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Prison Investment

To provide another example of Total Economic Return analysis applied to an investment strategy, here is a letter that I wrote to the New York Times in March 1999 regarding investment in private pris…

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Morgan Bags The Bear

Well, Eliot Spitzer’s resignation was just in time. Can you imagine what he would have said about this?

As of December 31, 2007, the New York State Teacher’s Retirement System owned 493,007 shares…

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Barclays Sues Bear Stearns

Title: US District Court, Southern District of New York
Parties: Barclays Bank, PLC vs Bear Stearns, et al
Filed: December 19, 2007

Complaint ~ Part 1
Complaint ~ Part 2
Exhibit A1-3
Exhibit B1-4

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“Ethnic Cleansing” Connected to CIA Drug Dealing in Los Angeles

“Ethnic Cleansing” Connected to CIA Drug Dealing in Los Angeles
by Catherine Austin Fitts – May, 1999

I was ten years old when the combined action of HUD mortgage fraud and heroin trafficking destroy…