By Cathy Horyn

Not long ago, I got an e-mail from a man thanking me for mentioning his label, Pointer Brand, in an article in 2006. This was no thank-you note. I read on: “With a lot of hard work a…

[CAF Note: We’ve all been waiting for the summer correction. Has it started? Too soon to tell. However, it is interesting to note that bonds are trading down with equities. This is telling us someth…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

You are probably walking around the world wondering why industry after industry and government agency after government agency are behaving like they are not under adult supe…

By Kashmir Hill

Things are getting serious for Bitcoin this month: a federal judge declared it real money, Bloomberg gave it an experimental ticker (XBT), and New York’s financial regulator annou…

By Gibby Zobel

Alfredo Moser’s invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without el…

By Alastair Thompson

While the following story is about Kim Dotcom and his new encrypted data delivery network MEGA.co.nz, it addresses a great deal more than piracy and copyright law enforcement. Th…

By CNBC

Air cushioning: That’s the high-concept technology behind the high-speed transit concept that billionaire Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop.

Musk – who already plays leading roles in the Space…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the 1990’s, the US intentionally grew the US prison population to a mind boggling per capita leadership globally. This effort had several goals. One was to disenfranchi…

[CAF Note: This is an important signal. Now that the financial coup is complete, the trail is cold and the money across, we are proceeding to rebuild the overt side of the economy. Now that new econ…

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By Althea Chang

Lawyers and business executives are among the least trusted occupations in America, and members of the military, teachers and scientists are highly…

CAF Note: The leaders of the financial coup are now waging war on state and local pension funds. They want to lower the boom on retirees, direct the flow of these assets and related fees and make priv…

By James L. Payne

If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can affor…

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By BBC News

On Wednesday, a government official said up to 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water may be flowing into the sea every day.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…

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By Ethan Watters

In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machigu…

Flamboyan I group successfully completed their first cycle with a loan from Kiva and is running smoothly. With that loan in the first cycle, their businesses began to flourish. For this second cycle…

CAF Note: We were discussing the Pope’s current dilemma with the Vatican bank – to launder or not launder? The Solari team and I decided to revisit the fundamental economics of conceding the high …

By Gregory Roth

In a court case that could add a new risk factor to some private equity deals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled in favor of the New England Teamsters and Trucking I…

By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal and civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justic…

By Wikipedia

Crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd-sourced fundraising) is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Int…

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By Sam Ro

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday.

Meanwhile, estimates for U.S. GDP growth in 2013 have been falling for two and a half years.

…

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[CAF Note: Now that large corporate entities have accumulated large portfolios of residential real estate, the US will make changes that makes corporate cost of …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so – although as Afghanistan and Iraq have proved – that can be terribly expe…

By Jennifer Saba

The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million.

The move comes as newspapers face …

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By RT

HSBC has requested embassies and consulates around the world to close their accounts and transfer their funds to other banks within 60 days.

The US…

By John Naughton

As an antidote, here are some of the things we should be thinking about as a result of what we have learned so far.

The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global n…

By Gensler LA

The intent of this Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio was to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constraints impacting and contributing to Downtown…

[CAF Note: This is big. Koskinen is the guy who gets sent in to clean up and manage serious liabilities. In covert operations, a “cleaner” is a person who destroys or removes any incriminating evide…

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By Lars Schall

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter alia, they dis…

By Wikipedia

The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of the well known parables of Jesus….

The parable in Matthew 25:14-3…

By Connie Guglielmo

Apple may get the brunt of the attention for its use of offshore havens to offset the taxes it pays in the U.S., but it’s hardly alone.

Six of the biggest names in technology…

By Du Juan

China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3 trillion yuan being spent on energy-saving …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science and technology news posted on our blog this week, you …

By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton

We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?

In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are…

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dyi…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85 billion level. There is n…

By Rob Wile

Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy.

It’s taken a while for …

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By Seth Rosenblatt

The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San Francisco resident …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that?

Not as scary as an audit of US debt – after all Secretary O’Neill got fired by Bush-Cheney for daring t…

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By BBC

China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector.

Local governments i…

[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?]

By Sebastian Anthony

Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human�…

By Susan Young

Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable memory can be. It also lays …

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[CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.]

By Mary Williams Walsh

Until mid-June, there was one ray of ho…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I drive the full length of North America at least once a year.

From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco and back once or twice a year. Sometimes I go the Northern ro…

Send Musicians To Prison

Do you believe music can heal and restore?

Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot?

Do you believe music can impart worth, and provoke a soul to change…

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[CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!]

By Peter Coy

On July 31, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Anal…

By Bob Ivry

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy as the Federal Reserve reconsiders letting ban…

By Wikipedia

Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to achieve the first circu…

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By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study the chart provided below we find that treasury…