By Catherine
German Village Proves: Local Leadership + Engineers + Local Investment Works
By Christie Allen
Wildpoldsried produces 321 percent more energy than it needs and is generating $5.7 million in annual revenue — a remarkable accomplishment for a modest farming community that h…
Blankfein Hires Defense Attorney; Goldman Down $3 Billion After Close
By Courtney Comstock
Is the Goldman Sachs CEO facing a new lawsuit?
The market seems to think so. Goldman Sachs just tanked in minutes before the close after news that Lloyd Blankfein hired a …
Did Hedge Fund Operator Barry Rosenstein Just Get the S&P Chairman Fired?
By Abhishek Takle,Wayne Cole and Mark Bendeich
The chief of Standard & Poor’s will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the…
MyBitcoin: “What Did You Think We Did After the Hack? We Got S**tfaced”
By Adrianne Jeffries
The popular Bitcoin transaction processor that disappeared from the internet about 10 days ago, taking at least tens of thousands of Bitcoins in user deposits with it, has be…
Quontron Resonance System
On the last Solari Report, Adam Trombly and I discussed the Quontron Resonance System which we both use. A number of subscribers have asked for a link to make sure they understand the system we were…
The Fed’s Secret $1.2 Trillion Liquidity Lifelines
Click to view Interactive Graphic by David Yanofsky
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A Vote of Confidence for Elizabeth Warren
Question for Catherine:
As a foreigner (Canadian), I am nearly as concerned about the state of American politics as those at home. I hope you can find a moment to give me your opinion of Elizabeth …
Social Security Disability on Verge of Insolvency?
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Washington (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system towa…
Solving The Mystery of WTC 7
Narrated By Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage
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Note:
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by the col…
He’s A Solar Pioneer, And Barely A Teen
By Pete Danko
One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is not the…
A Review of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why
by Catherine Austin Fitts
One of my favorite books is Laurence Gonzales’ Deep Survival .
Laurence has joined me on The Solari Report — I highly recommend this interview to subscribers – Deep Surv…
Emord on Food Freedom
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Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier
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Shadowstats: Inflation at 11.2%
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Samaritan Ministries: An Alternative to Health Insurance?
Samaritan Ministries International is a worldwide health care ministry that provides a non-insurance, non-government way for members from all parts of the Body of Christ to join in bearing one anoth…
U.S. Inquiry Is Said to Focus on S.&P. Ratings
By Louise Story
The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leadin…
Morgan Stanley Cuts Global Growth Forecast With U.S. ‘Close’ to Recession
By Paul Panckhurst
Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth this year, citing an “insufficient” policy response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, weakened confidence and the prospec…
Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home
By Daniel Cancel and Nathan Crooks
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of…
Dark Crosses Everywhere
By Cam Hui
I reviewed many of the world’s stock market charts this weekend and what I found were numerous Dark Crosses where the 50-day moving averaged and crossed under the 200 day-day moving averag…
Voila! The Failure of Centralization Means More Centralization
By Greg Keller and Juergen Baetz
Paris (AP) — France and Germany called on Tuesday for a “new economic government” for Europe, with mandatory balanced budgets enshrined in the constitutions of all…
Congressman Kucinich on Social Security
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Silver Gold Calculator Available at iTunes! Are You Ready for “JUST DO IT” Currency?
Announcing the Silver Gold Calculator from Solari and The Moneychanger now available at the iTunes store!
It’s been a while in coming, but it’s available now. Solari and The Moneychanger’s Silver an…
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Insurance Mandate
By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington — A federal appeals court struck down a pillar of President Obama’s national healthcare law, ruling Congress does…
Macro Commentary: The Cost of Fiat Money and Gold [Is a Swap from Gold to Land and Real Estate Brewing?]
Submitted by Brian Rogers of Fator Securities
Markets are trading sharply lower this morning after yesterday’s late afternoon rally on the change in language in the Fed statement that will keep sho…
Gold Charts
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Being Like Soros in Buying Farmland Reaps Annual Gains of 16%
Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011.
By Seth Lubove
Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summe…
White House Seeks Ideas to Shrink Foreclosure Glut
By Margaret Chadbourn
The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC BB:FNMA.OB – News) and Freddie Mac…
Marilyn Monroe in Chicago
By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas
Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily
CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bomb…
Jackie O Believed LBJ Conspired to Assassinate JFK
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which will be revealed…
Lockheed Delivers Hypersonic Good News for the US Dollar?
An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa B…
Financial Coup d’Etat
[Note from CAF: This post was originally published here in February of 2009.
In light of recent events, I am republishing.]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the fall of 2001 I attended a private…
Central Bankers Will Soon Feel The Pressure For More QE
By Nils Pratley
The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if the economic data gets any worse
It’s at this point that in…
How JP Morgan Took Over All Kentucky’s Financial Services, And Why You Should Be Scared
By Danny Mayer
One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state. Could this spread?
On July 1, JP Morgan Chase became the C…
Paul Ferguson Charts the Dow
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G-7 Vows to Take ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Stabilize Economies, Markets
The Group of Seven central bankers pose for a group photo in front of the U.S. Treasury in Washington
By Toru Fujioka
Group of Seven nations sought to head off a collapse in investor confidence aft…
Housing Subsidies Make Huge Tax Target
By Dan Freed
New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut the growing U.S. deficit.
The Joint Select…
Muni Market Prepares For Downgrades
By Tyler Durden
While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic is about as ugly as the US, so where could $8 trillion in marketabl…
New York Attorney General Accuses Bank Of New York Mellon Of Fraud, Moves To Block Bank Of America’s Mortgage Deal
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America and a group of investors, claiming in…
S&P Downgrades USA to AA+
By John Detrixhe
Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending …
Full Text of S&P Statement
“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating.
* “We have also removed both the short- and lon…
Fannie Mae Seeks $5.1bn More From Taxpayers
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans ma…
Federal Budget 101 & Catherine’s Response
By: David Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Equitas Capital Advisors LLC
The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we crea…
UnAnswered Questions About Rawesome Food
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested.
There are numerous unanswered questions about why.
Nea…
The Whistleblower
Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an …
Does MERS Make the US a “BBB” Credit?
By David Woolley
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and l…
Debt Debacle: A Few Things to Bear in Mind
By Sam Smith
Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a majority of its citizens over many years. This is not just a fight over …
8 Ways Young Americans’ Resistance to Domination Has Been Subdued
By Bruce Levine
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and…
Crossing America
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona. After two days in Tucson, I headed east and north to Santa F…
Debt-Limit Deal to Get Congress Vote Today
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning
Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a compromise sealed with President Bara…
Where is the Money? Let’s Get it Back!
About the Author
Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. Ms. Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the first Bush Administration, lead financial advisor to the U.S. De…
Sunfield Farm
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The mission of Sunfield Education Association is to provide programs in education an…
Room to Rent, via The Web
By Jenna Wortham
When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding one or two, she found 30.
Ms. Marion, …
Debt-limit Standoff: Top Democrats Revive 14th Amendment Option to Raise Ceiling
By Brad Plumer and Aaron Blake
As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one last trump card at his disposal: ignoring the d…
Developing Economic Reforms
Republished Article
Original (5 Nov 2008)
Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for the lost revenue.
So what can a n…
“Uh, Oh – Time To Get Off The Grid”
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million in sma…
Catherine Austin Fitts on How to Really Find a Job; Plus: Will Silver Hit $500/oz?
In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at heart in navigating today’s job market.
Cath…
The Cost of US University
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By Michael Feldstein
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Solari Report Blog Commentaries
Special Solari Report: The Student Loan Scam
(11 July 11)
Fed President Hints at Broad Money-market Fix
By Ross Kerber
A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be rattled by potential downgrades of…
‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
By Ryan Grim
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Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to addres…
The Fed Audit: $16 Trillion in Secret Loans
By Senator Bernie Sanders
The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out Amer…
Debasing Ourselves
By Sam Smith
Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider:
• Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent)
• Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent)
• Taiwan:…
Dependency Ratios Around The World
By Joe Weisenthal
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Catherine Austin Fitts: Now That We Got Your Money We’re Going To Change The Deal
Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts on Financial Survival Radio, a fascinating 2-part interview.
In this installment of our discussion, Catherine explores whether we are going through an e…
JFK vs. The NWO
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QE Perpetual
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner.
By: Reuters
Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduc…
Treasury To Stop Funding Its Market Manipulation Fund To Delay US Bankruptcy
Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the following sta…
Announcing Paul Levy’s New Book
Paul Levy’s Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity
From the Foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts:
“My search to understand evil and its transformation is what attracted me to P…
Smart Meters
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FROM: Certified U.S. Postal Mail #….
Energy Customer’s Name
Str…
Cell Phone Radiation Safety Standards And Health Effects
Documentary about how the military and the wireless industry influenced the cell phone radiation standards. Featured in this documentary are interviews with Dr. Michael Repacholi, who prior to becomin…
Curtis Mayfield ~ New World Order
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Released Oct 3 2007
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Dick Gregory on the Real Deal
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Bohemian Grove Underway: Will the Debt Limit Deal Be Finalized?
Bohemian Grove From Wikipedia
Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s art …
Cancer: What Would I Do?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list o…
Crowd Funding
Crowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, atten…
Is Wireless the Next Asbestos?
By Gloria Vogel
Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing directo…
Obama “Cannot Guarantee” Social Security Checks Will Go Out On August 3
By Corbett B. Daly
President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agre…
JPMorgan Chase Gives You Another Reason to Bank Locally
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By Linda Brown/King 5 News
Auburn, Wash. – Buying his own home was a big accomplishment for constructio…
Every Heart Makes A Difference
By David Icke
I am always being asked the question: ‘What can we do?’ Well, this weekend I am launching something with fantastic potential that we can do together without even necessarily movin…
Tough Calculus as Technical Schools Face Deep Cuts
By Motoko Rich
Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in the usual …
Congress Wants Automatic Wage Deductions To Pay Down The Debt
By Tyler Durden
Boiling Frog Alert: Congress Wants Automatic Wage Deductions To Pay Down The Debt
Folks… you just can’t make this stuff up.
On July 6th, just two days ago, at least a dozen busy…
Kitco Moves Into Creditor Protection
By Paul Delean
Faced with tax claims of more than $300 million from Revenu Quebec, embattled Montreal-based gold trader Kitco Metals Inc. now is officially in creditor protection, until July 27.
S…
Goldman Sachs Got a $15B Loan and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
By Matt Nesto
It’s official. Through the persistence of Bloomberg’s lawyers and the teeth of the Freedom Of Information Act we can now all add “Saint Omo” to our list of cool crisis acronyms that c…
In Debt Talks, Obama Offers Social Security Cuts
By Lori Montgomery
President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicar…
17 Facts About Australia That Will Blow Your Mind
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U.S. and Mexico Sign Trucking Deal
Mexican President, Felipe Calderón and President Obama
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Mexican truckers will be able to carry goods deep into the United States, and vice versa, under a deal signed Wednesday…
Banking Fugitives Hide Out in London
By Stacey Herbert
The fact is that Russia now joins Iceland and Afghanistan as the ONLY nations to have international arrest warrants out for banking thieves. This is our single most urgent concern…
Bye Bye Eagle Eye
CAF Note: One of the best public sources on government contracting and subsidies by state is now private. Too bad. Here is the announcement.
Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc.
For over 26 years, Eagle Eye P…
McDonnell Property Analytics Report for Southern Essex, Massachusetts
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds Audit Reveals That 75% of Assignments of Mortgage Are Invalid; O’Brien Says Banks Responsible for an Epidemic of Fraud. Once again urges Attorney’s General to st…
The Normalcy Bubble
By Sam Smith
I was driving along when one of those smugly assured network financial advisors began talking about how to prepare for one’s retirement. I reached my destination before I got her nam…
What a Coincidence! Strauss-Kahn Is a Free Man!
[CAF Note: The day that Strauss-Kahn was arrested, I predicted that he would be released as soon as his candidacy in France was dead and the US had their pick in as the new head of the IMF. As things…
Patriot Act Can Access EU-based Cloud Data
[CAF Note: Great for front running or what?]
By Zack Whittaker
At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless o…
The Economist Warning on ETFs
In Finance, the simple ideas are often the best. Exchange-traded funds, first launched 21 years ago, were a great idea. They were in effect tradable mutual funds. An investor got exposure to a dive…
A Big Chart on Too Big to Fail
Most call it one of the biggest financial crises in living memory. Others call it one great big Ponzi scheme. Whatever you want to call it, a bunch of people lost a bunch of money and the world of h…
Equity Performance – 2011 So Far
By Joe Weisenthal
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Dr. Richard Sauder on the “breakaway civilization”
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Highland Berries and Produce
Your Source for blueberries and fresh local produce
Highland Berries and Produce, 4411 Hampshire Pike, announces the opening of their produce stand at The Barn. The Barn is located one mile west o…
What You Should Know About The Greek Lawmaker Who Just Got Attacked On The Street
By Joe Weisenthal
The chaos in Greece continues.
Particularly disturbing is that PASOK PM Alexandros Athanasiadis got attacked on the street.
Athanasiadis voted FOR the controversial austerity bil…
New Solari Report Podcast!
Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #25.
Listen to Solari Report Digest #25
The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Sola…
US Unemployment Plan: More “Free” Trade Deals
By Jennifer Liberto
The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday.
Senate negotiators will have to st…