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Latest Fed FOMC Statement “Translation”
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What’s Really Happening in Baltimore?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I would encourage you to read Michael Snyder’s article posted at zerohedge.com regarding what’s currently taking place in Baltimore:
12 Unanswered Questions About The Balt…
Lunch with Catherine and Richard Dolan in NYC
“Living well is the best revenge.”
~ Paul Newman
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Saturday, April 25, 44 Solari Report subscribers and guests gathered for lunch in the private Gallery Room at New …
The Hidden System of Finance, Breakaway Civilization, and Bank Vaults in Space
By Dr. Joseph Farrell
Ms. P.H., whom readers here know to be a regular contributor of articles, found this one, and it’s so bizarre, and tends to confirm in an even more bizarre way, some of the idea…
Weekend Report…Precious Metals : It’s ALL about the Big Picture After All
By Rambus
Today I would like to focus in on the bigger picture by looking at some long term charts for the precious metal complex. I know most enjoy the action by looking at the minute charts but the…
“Gone Fishin’ ” – Bill Dance Theme Song
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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XV
“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…
A Reader Comments on the U.S. Software Industry
[CAF NOTE: While you watch tech stocks go up, you might want to ponder their business model. This one just in from a very funny subscriber. One of my favorite quotes is from Sir Peter Medawar who wa…
Netflix is Now Bigger than CBS
By John McDuling
Netflix shares are soaring after another outstanding quarter. And as of right now, that’s pushed the market value of the disruptive streaming TV company above CBS Corp, which, by…
“Metamorphosis 4” – Philip Glass
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Lawmakers Unveil Secretly Negotiated Deal To Fast-Track Free Trade
[CAF Note: Pay attention – not a word about this until the day after citizens paid their federal taxes.]
By Michael McAuliff
Congress’ tax committees announced an agreement Thursday to speed throu…
Targeting Teachers
[CAF Note: The Chinese have a saying that the way to scare the monkeys is to kill a chicken. The American oligarchy intends to convert US education to a richly profitable corporate business that allow…
China Blossoms
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”
— Deng Xiaoping
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you want to contemplate the financial equi…
Before You Bet the Ranch on the “End of the World”…
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
— Wayne Gretzky
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you want to understand why the United States’ European allies are signing up as mem…
Total Number of Pages in the Federal Register
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Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light
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Who I Write For
by Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews.com
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Consciousness.
Freedom.
Power.
The individual.
Imagination. Creating new realities.
Society and civilization as a potential force…
The Hubris Bubble
by Catherine Austin Fitts
The Hubris Bubble
YouTube | April 2015
Hubris is pridefulness to the point of cluelessness.
Of all the bubble’s we have managed over the last two decades, the hubr…
Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIV
“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 …
The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050
Why Muslims Are Rising Fastest and the Unaffiliated Are Shrinking as a Share of the World’s Population
The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in f…
Eric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
“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…
Why I Love L.L. Bean
“Outside of your gun, nothing is so important to your outfit as your foot-wear. You cannot expect success hunting deer or moose if your feet are not properly dressed.” ~ Leon Leonwood Bean
By Catheri…
The Future of Freedom: Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney
A Call to Action to Stand Up Before It’s Too Late
by Alexandra Bruce
A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communi…
How Low Can You Go? – The Cumulative Impact of Falling Interest Rates
“How low can you go?” ~Chubby Checker, The Limbo Rock
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The slow burn’s squeeze on household budgets is weighing heavily on both individuals and institutions. Let’s take a …
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Investment Chapter
by WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks releases today the “Investment Chapter” from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publication…
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“Send Me to the Electric Chair” – Dinah Washington
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Financial Repression: The Unintended Consequences
Current high levels of financial repression create significant costs and lower long-term investors’ ability to channel funds into the real economy, a new Swiss Re study shows
26 March 2015, Zurich
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Dr. Farrell’s Latest Available on Pre-Order!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just ordered Dr. Joseph Farrell’s latest: The Third Way: Nazi International, the European Union and Corporate Fascism – an exploration of the true “business model” o…
Planet Debt: Part 1 with Dr. Joseph Farrell
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The Solari Report 2015-03-26
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What the Fed is Really Saying: English Translation
View the complete Fed comments from March 18, 2015
Fed comments are in GREEN. Catherine Austin Fitts’ translation follows:
“Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in J…
The New Dow: Apple In – AT&T Out
“What we’re doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.” ~Steve Jobs
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion in February, 2015.
Let’s put that …
What if 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?
What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly.
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Kickstarting the First Time Homebuyer Market
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New VA Loans Available
Just received a notification in my VA network that Obama has waived requirements for military members to meet any criteria for getting a lo…
Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XIII
“”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…
Catherine Austin Fitts at the Secret Space Program Conference, 2014 San Mateo
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“Autumn In New York” – Jonathan Kreisberg Group
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March 20 – First Day of Spring/The Total Solar Eclipse
About the Eclipse
On Friday 20th March 2015, A total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Artic. The eclipse’s longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes…
Recent Trends in Arms Transfers
Click on the map to see the world’s top 20 arms exporters for the period 2010–2014.
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First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin
German Foreign Minister Steinmeir: Germany Must Take Up The Mantle of Being A World Power
by Dr. Joseph Farrell
Where have we heard this before?
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir re…
Pensions & the Power of Total Economic Return
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“And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” ~Isaiah 59:14
By Catherine Austin Fit…
Fannie, Freddie Lobbyist Played “Big Role” in NY AG’s Mortgage Finance Investigation
By Trey Garrison
New emails contradict earlier claims Cuomo adviser recused himself
Emails have come to light from 2007 and 2008 that show an influential mortgage industry lobbyist played a big ro…
Confidence in Institutions: Trends in Americans’ Attitudes toward Government, Media, and Business
By AP
Americans’ confidence in the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and Congress has been declining over the last decade and each are at or near record lows in 2014, according to an analysis …
A Constitutional Convention is a Dreadful Idea
[CAF Note: In last week’s discussion on the Solari Report, Franklin Sanders and I addressed this issue. A convention opening up the US Constitution will be hijacked by Mr. Global and the net resul…
“The Times They Are A Changin’ ” – Bob Dylan
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Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders
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Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem
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by Justin McCarthy
Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months. Ame…
Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization Presentation – View Free Online
The Global Breakthrough Energy Movement (GlobalBEM) is a non-profit volunteer-powered organization dedicated to educating & activating the public about breakthrough energy technologies which are cl…
Tax Time Covert Ops
[Rather than post stories on the latest events in Ferguson, I thought I would republish this post that we originally published on March 19, 2009]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just got back from tow…
Catherine on Dark Journalist
Catherine Austin Fitts, the publisher of The Solari Report, traces the history of worldwide financial manipulation and draws on her personal experience in high-ranking positions on Wall Street and…
Navigating a Rising US Dollar
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
I try to stay in a higher mind. However, if one more financial or geopolitical guru tells me that the U.S. dollar is about to colla…
Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XII
“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….
Another Creepy Wearable Fizzles
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Apple Watch is going to fizzle. That is because even Apple can not persuade consumers to pay to physically wear a monitoring device on their person. So the race to make t…
How Hedge Funds Purchased Albany’s Lawmakers
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by Hedgeclippers
An analysis by Competitive Advantage Research, which examined the campaign spending of 570 hedge fund managers and senior executives over th…
The Ides of March
“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.” ~ John S. Coleman
by Catherine Austin Fitts
There is pressure in the air. It’s called tax time.
U.S. Corporate…
Remember Daylight Savings Time!
Daylight savings time begins on Sunday March 8, at 2:00 AM.
Remember to set your clocks!
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“Bring Him Home” – Collabro
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Fed Shifts Regulatory Power Away From New York
A detail from the front of the United States Federal Reserve Board building is shown in Washington October 28, 2014.
by Gary Cameron
(Reuters) – The regulatory power of the Federal Reserve Bank of …
Take that, Boehner
Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 nati…
Ten Years in the European Union: Germany is the Winner
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“So much money is now in circulation that you can tackle whole countries with it.” ~ Rainer Voss
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Sometimes it pays, like Switzer…
“Beat the Bush” Housing
S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB) vs. the S&P
“Our economy isn’t going to recover until the housing market finds its footing” ~ Mark Zandi
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I can not help but notic…
“Something in the Water” – Carrie Underwood
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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth
by Wikipedia
The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. The fund c…
Debt and (not much) Deleveraging
by Richard Dobbs, Susan Lund, Jonathan Woetzel, and Mina Mutafchieva
Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt…
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…
We Apologize!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of our servers went down on Sunday with a resulting scramble of databases. Thank you so much for your patience and prayers. Now that we are back on line we continue …
Financial Transparency
”As in Athens, state accounting in Rome was haphazard, and fraud was common. In his Philippics (44-43 BCE), Cicero complained of bad accounts in his attacks on Mark Antony, known for his debts and…
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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“Home Sweet Home” – The Farm
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Wi-fi “Spy” Barbie Records Children’s Conversations
Hello Barbie is the latest incarnation of the doll – and will record what your kid says
[CAF Note: Time to start buying dolls at Etsy! Or teaching children how to make their own. Do you really want …
After the Housing Crisis, a Cash Flood and Silence
By Gretchen Morgenson
On Aug. 17, 2012, the federal government began expropriating all the earnings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants that succumbed to the 2008 crisis.
N…
Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
by Mary Holland J.D.
On September 23, 2014, an Italian court in Milan award compensation to a boy for vaccine-induced autism. (See the Italian document here.) A childhood vaccine against six childh…
A Important Warning: Stop Any Call for a Constitutional Convention
The Montana House Judiciary Committee recently passed a resolution calling for an Article V Convention (HJR 4), and your action is urgently needed to stop this bill on the House Floor.
In fact, sev…
2015 World Press Freedom Index
Ranking of every country in 2015 according to the Reporters Without Borders index.
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Norway
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Not in Front of The Telly: Warning Over ‘Listening’ TV
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.
The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activ…
EU Eyes Markets as Savior for Flagging Economy
by Huw Jones
(Reuters) – The EU turns to stock and bond markets this week with reform proposals intended to help companies raise the cash needed for growth-boosting investments, hoping to emulate t…
“Watermelon Man” – Herbie Hancock
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Invitation to Our Subscribers: What’s Up with Oil and Gas Prices?
“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more powe…
Measles in Disneyland: Third MMR Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban
by Barbara Loe Fisher
There have been hundreds of media stories published in the U.S. and around the world since Jan. 14, 2015, the day after it was first reported that visitors to Disneyland got …
An Apple Tops Planet Equity
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that in perspective. That is almost twice as large as Exx…
European Military Deployments: 1988 vs. 2014
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Central Banks Monetizing Sovereign Debt
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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…
Renewable Energy Data Book
Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014…
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Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Push Legalizing Hemp Growth
by Jenny Hopkinson
Forget legalizing pot: Two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate believe there’s a much stronger chance to legalize growing hemp in the U.S., opening up an entirely ne…
30,000 Swiss HSBC Bank Accounts Leaked
by Jamie Condliffe
A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian calls the “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices of the organization and its cust…
Bond & Stock Market Charts – 2015
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