“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” ~H.L. Mencken

CAF Note: IMO, we are watching multiple felonies being committed by the Attorney General, the Clintons and possibly t…

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” ~Charles M. Schulz

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One of the reasons I loved living in New York was working out …

“This is an extremely dangerous machine. It should only be operated by someone as responsible and sane as me. Bad s**t can happen if this falls into the wrong hands.”
~ Richmond Valentine (played b…

By Realities Watch

Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the col…

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
~Elbert Hubbard

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Friday I visited one of the great museums of the world – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is listed …

[CAF Note: Nothing is more valuable then direct intelligence from the ground. Here is feedback on the European refugee migration from a wonderful subscriber in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, who has …

[CAF Note: This was published in December 2012. I am republishing today, in October 2015, as the debate in the US is sadly short of facts, not to mention an understanding or analysis of covert o…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

At last I can stop saying “the US markets are significantly overdue for a 10-25% correction.”

The correction is here. The S&P 500 is down 9.3% for the year and down 1…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Given the volume of Chinese exports to Europe and Japan (and how much the Euro and Yen have fallen against the dollar) it is quite remarkabl…

“Anything that can’t go on forever will end.”
~ Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 1987

by Catherine Austin Fitts

I am always surprised when investors in Berkshire Hathaway d…

by Jon Rappoport

“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is…

“Outer space and cyberspace have become new commanding heights in the strategic competition among all parties.”
~ China’s Military Strategy, May 2015

by Catherine Austin Fitts

China has issu…

“Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the …

“I’ve gone to look for America” ~ Simon & Garfunkel

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am headed out tomorrow for a five day drive to California, much of it along the old U.S. Route 66.

I am curi…

“If we had been obliged to get permission from a board of directors, from banking interests, or from outside stockholders, for the expenditure of the millions that we have put into new buildings, ne…

“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? ” ~ John Templeton

By Solari Team

We are back t…

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 juice the mortga…

“The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.” ~ John C. Bogle

By Solari Team

Last week we decided to hold off and wait in making any investments into the…

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

By Solari Team

This week in Team Awesome we will begin analyzing th…

“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

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Well, we shifted our simulation to a …

“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 and political scientist, begs to di…

“”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 one thinks one knows something about and in the management of…

“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”” ~ David Tepper

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our trader has been reluctant to proceed with authorized investments in our simulated portfolio….

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…

““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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~ Andrew Vachss
By Catherine Austin Fitts

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

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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

Every other Monday night is Team Awesome Sol…

“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…

“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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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…

“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…

“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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By The Guardian

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…

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…