Commentary on the IMF & World Bank
For this week’s News of the Week
First read the White House Press Statement:
Statement on International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings, April…

I watched the movie Capote last night. In the movie, Truman Capote is describing his emotional connection to one of the convicted murderers in the non-fiction story, “In Cold Blood.” He says, “It is l…

I just finished reading American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips. I like Phillips. I liked his last book — America…

The traditional American economy is now clearly into the dump phase of a managed “pump and dump” cycle that began in the mid-1990s with the “strong dollar policy.”

The housing bubble engineered by th…

“Culture is the integration of the divine in every day life.”- John Edward Hurley

Meditation I — Willie Louise

I first rode down Highway 18 South in 1978 when I was twenty-seven, riding my bicyc…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Popsicle Index is the % of people in a place who believe that a child can leave their home, go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle (ice cream) and come home alone saf…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I stood in a visitation receiving line for four hours tonight in front of Mildred Mitchell’s open casket with my cousins and her children and their spouses. Tomorrow the fun…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am thinking tonight about the things that each one of us can do in our everyday lives that will make a small but concrete difference in transforming us to a civilization…