[CAF Note: There is no more respected voice in education than Diane Ravitch. Her call for Congress to investigate the Gates role in Common Core underscores the rising level of shock of parents and edu…

By Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized a rule on Wednesd…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

You need to stop, take a deep breath and appreciate the profound nature of the evolution in which you and I are participating.

Smart phones are recreating and reorganizin…

“Our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere.”
~Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd.

By Catherine Austin Fitts

For those interested in understanding the evolution of online business, this is a …

“Life is to be greatly valued and cherished. Health is the most precious asset in life.” ~ Yuan Tze

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Continuing in the thread of things I love, I wanted to say a few w…

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By Mark John

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair da…

By Statista

The statistic shows the most popular categories in the Apple App Store ranked share of active apps. In June 2014, education apps were the second-most popular category, with a share of 1…

By Dominic Rushe

The US telecoms industry called on the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to block two cities’ plans to expand high-speed internet services to their residents.

USTeleco…

By The World Federation of Exchanges

The World Federation of Exchanges Ltd. published its first-half Statistics Market Highlights report. The main trends for this first six months of the years:

The …

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By Stephen Bierman

Exxon Mobil (XOM) Corp.’s dream of drilling in the Russian Arctic may risk running aground on the politics of Ukraine.

The company plans to start drill…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Goldman Sachs has now settled with the Federal Housing Finance Agency. It appears that Goldman did not want to generate more new revenues for federal agencies that Congres…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This e-mail was forwarded recently by Dr. Joseph Farrell:

Dear Dr. Farrell:

I get lost sometimes when financial matters are discussed. In particular, the concept of separa…

By Gold Switzerland

In this first of a series of London interviews that Lars Schall conducted for Matterhorn Asset Management this summer, Lars met up with Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to discuss geo-po…

By Wikipedia

The bancor was a supranational currency that John Maynard Keynes and E. F. Schumacher conceptualised in the years 1940-42 and which the United Kingdom proposed to introduce after the S…

By Breitbart

President Francois Hollande is weighing his options after dissolving the government on Monday over open feuding in the Cabinet about how much cutting — or spending — will revive the …

By The Investment Company Institute

U.S.-registered investment companies* managed $17.1 trillion in assets at year-end 2013 (Figure 1.1), $2.3 trillion more than at year-end 2012. Major U.S. stock in…

“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…

By Adam Jourdan

China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

Computer …

By Huw Jones

Government leaders are expected to agree in November that the world’s top banks must issue special bonds to increase the amount of capital which can be tapped in a crisis instead of ca…

It’s amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Two years ago, Eunice Boston called me. She said, “Buy a Nutribullet now!” I said, “What’s a Nutribullet?” She said, “Just do it. You’ll understand after you…

Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer

At the “The Great Recession–Moving Ahead,” a Conference Sponsored by the Swedish Ministry of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden

Additional steps have been taken in some coun…

By Melanie Hicken

New parents be warned: It could cost nearly a quarter of a million dollars to raise your child — and that’s not even including the cost of college.

To raise a child born in 2013 t…

***CAF Note: As I hear the stories roll in from Ferguson, Missouri, my one question is “cui bono?” – who benefits? I keep thinking of the day I sat with a former intelligence agent as he explained…

Blackfish Official Website

“Affiliates of Blackstone control us and their interests may conflict with ours or yours in the future” ~ Risk Section, SeaWorld Entertainment Stock Prospectus

By Ca…

By Dr. Patricia Buckley & Dr. Peter Viechnicki

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By Hamilton Nolan

Mark Gorton is a prominent financier and a respected entrepreneur. He founded the music sharing site Limewire, and he runs Tower Research, a famed high-frequency trading firm. Gor…

By Ruth Simon

Women account for less than 8% of chief executives at venture-backed firms, occupy just 17% of board seats at Fortune 500 companies and own a mere 30% of all companies.

But early dat…

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By Peter Eavis

Tensions are building in an enormous market that nearly brought Wall Street to its knees in 2008.

Financial regulators are pushing for an ar…

By Alexander E.M. Hess, Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent

Financial distress, or difficulty meeting debt obligations, is a daily part of life for many Americans, and for some, the lenders have co…

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down ever…

By Helen Davis Chaitman and Lance Gotthoffer

This is a book about JPMorgan Chase. It is, therefore, a book about greed, corruption, arrogance and power. And it is also a book about Bernie Madoff. F…

By Noe Torres, David Alire Garcia and Adriana Barrera

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday signed a package of laws that will serve as a rule book for comprehensive energy reform designed t…

BPA Javier Vega, Jr. Memorial Fund

Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega, Jr. was fishing with relatives when two men attempted to rob them, opening fire on Vega and his family. Vega was shot and killed, l…

By Wikipedia

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, film producer, and screenwriter.

Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork i…

“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.” ~ Colossians 4:5

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the early 1990’s I started to load data on mortgages and federal credit and spend…

By Augmented Ether

An interesting summary of what has transpired; The ambitions,hope and policy failures. Mikhail gives us the gist of the matter and what needs to change in order for Putin (and Ru…

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By Daniel Bean

You might get annoyed when you sit down in a cafe and find that there’s no free WiFi.

Well, this Canadian coffee shop was definitely not for …

***CAF Note: The push is on to organize the web to serve centralizing machines***

By Wikipedia

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web C…

Sharyl Attkisson talked about her career, the state of the media, and her future plans. Ms.Attkisson left CBS News in March 2014 after more than 20 years at the network.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

It is worth noting the wave of mortgage related settlements occurring this month. The most sensitive has yet to be finalized – Goldman Sachs. Expect that soon.

Looks li…

By Peggy Noonan

All this reflects a political culture of brute and mindless disdain, the kind of culture that makes divisions worse…..They do this because they do not understand that they have an a…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I said in our 2nd Quarter Wrap Up that the slow burn was fraying and challenges lay ahead. Looks like I am far from the only person worried about taking risk in this envir…

***CAF Note: Just goes to show Abraham Lincoln was right: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the ti…

By Acha Leke, Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Sree Ramaswamy

The White House has invited some 50 African heads of state to Washington, DC, this week, presenting a historic opportunity to deepen US t…

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”
~ Daniel Bursting

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I was re-reading a chapter called “Information Overload” in Jam…

By Naomi Creason

It was a letter officials with the Cumberland County Library System were surprised to receive.

The system had spent some time working in partnership with the Cumberland County Commi…

By Jad Sleiman

For the first time since U.S. troops arrived in Europe during World War II, a German general will serve as chief of staff of U.S. Army Europe.

Brig. Gen. Markus Laubenthal is expect…

By CNN Wire Service

A mom faces a charge of child neglect after she allowed her son to go to a park alone. She says he’s old enough but Port St. Lucie Police disagree. Now she’s fighting back.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Unbelievable. Low interest rates continue to support MORE growing dependency on debt. Check out some of the latest reports:

Total NYSE margin debt is spiking

Corporate d…