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The Subprime Debacle, Part 2
New Testimony Reveals Citigroup Knew Exactly What Crap It Was Selling
By John Mauldin
At the end of last week’s letter on the whole mortgage foreclosure mess, I wrote:
“All those subprime and Alt-…
See How Four Asian Cities Monopolized Global Trade In 15 Short Years
By Vincent Fernando
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Foreclosure and Mortgage Fraud
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Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California $60-120 Billion in Land-Recording Fees
Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes:
In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country – for much of its history – has relied upon to determine l…
Chinese Point of View
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us….First, China does not export revolution; second it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it doe…
One Mess That Can’t Be Papered Over
By Gretchen Morgenson
Lawyers representing delinquent homeowners have been shouting for years about documentation problems in residential mortgages. Now that their complaints have gained traction wit…
California Pension Promises May Top Taxes by Fivefold, Milken Study Finds
By Michael B. Marois
California, which has the largest U.S. public-pension fund, faces liabilities that may exceed its annual state-tax revenue fivefold within two years unless lawmakers rein in bene…
G20 Summit Agrees to Reform IMF
By Andrew Walker
Finance ministers from the G20 leading economies have agreed reforms of the International Monetary Fund, giving major developing nations more of a say.
At a meeting in South Korea…
Inside Job
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I saw Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job this weekend. It is quite good. There are some great interview…
?What in the World are They Spraying??
I just finished watching Edward Griffin, Mike Murphy and Paul Wittenberger’s new documentary “What in the World Are They Spraying?” It is terrific.
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Tom Donilon’s Résumé: National Security = Mortgage Fraud
By Josh Gerstein & Abby Phillip
To many in the foreign policy community, Tom Donilon’s selection Friday [CAF Note: October 8] as national security adviser to President Barack Obama was a dese…
Tom Donilon's Résumé: National Security = Mortgage Fraud
By Josh Gerstein & Abby Phillip
To many in the foreign policy community, Tom Donilon’s selection Friday [CAF Note: October 8] as national security adviser to President Barack Obama was a dese…
Moon Not Only Has Water, But Lots of It
By Gautam Naik
There is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed, according to an analysis of NASA data being published Friday, a finding that may bolster the case for a manned base on…
Oregon County Decriminalizes Heroin, Meth, Cocaine And Shoplifting
Multnomah County Oregon
By Stephen C. Webster
It’s crunch-time for many municipalities across the United States, but for one county in Oregon, that means a little more than in most.
The district a…
Catherine on Mortgage Fraud in 2004
Catherine Austin Fitts talks about it in 2004. …
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.24.10
Shrinking Bank Revenue Signals Worst Decade of Growth
Bloomberg Businessweek (26 Oct 10)
General Mills Hikes Prices On Cereals, Baking Brands
OneQ (28 Oct 10)
Five US Dealers Account For 37% Of OTC…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.24.10
Shrinking Bank Revenue Signals Worst Decade of Growth
Bloomberg Businessweek (26 Oct 10)
General Mills Hikes Prices On Cereals, Baking Brands
OneQ (28 Oct 10)
Five US Dealers Account For 37% Of OTC …
Precious Metals – Week of 10.24.10
Sprott Physical Silver Trust Lists in New York and Toronto
GATA (29 Oct 10)
NY Fed Overstated Gold Depositors And Their Holdings, FT Discovers
GATA (28 Oct 10)
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GATA Chairman’s Address at S…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.24.10
Investors Holding Voting Rights In More than 2,600 MBS Deals Prepare To Fight Back Against Servicers
Zero Hedge (27 Oct 10)
Fraudclosure Update: The Crowd Is Getting Restless
Zero Hedge (26 Oct 10)
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.24.10
Investors Holding Voting Rights In More than 2,600 MBS Deals Prepare To Fight Back Against Servicers
Zero Hedge (27 Oct 10)
Fraudclosure Update: The Crowd Is Getting Restless
Zero Hedge (26 Oct 10)
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.24.10
Key Tax Breaks at Risk as Panel Looks at Cuts
The Wall Street Journal (25 Oct 10)
Treasury Shields Citigroup as Deletions Undercut Disclosure
Bloomberg (25 Oct 10)
The Great Bailout Backlash
The New…
Food & Health – Week of 10.24.10
The Benefits of Left-Side Sleeping
The New York Times (25 Oct 10)
The Claim: Lying on Your Left Side Eases Heartburn
The New York Times (25 Oct 10
“Cereal Killer”: Be On the Lookout For Gluten…
Food & Health – Week of 10.24.10
The Benefits of Left-Side Sleeping
The New York Times (25 Oct 10)
The Claim: Lying on Your Left Side Eases Heartburn
The New York Times (25 Oct 10
“Cereal Killer”: Be On the Lookout For Gluten
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Life – Week of 10.24.10
Top 100 Items to Disappear First During a National Emergency
Before It’s News (26 Oct 10)
Science & Technology – Week of 10.24.10
ProSystem fx® Portal
CCH (Oct 2010)
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Air Cars – Here, There. Everywhere
BrassCheck TV (Oct 2010))
Alex Jones Exposes Google’s Plan to Dominate the Internet
YouTube (19 Aug 10)
Lies, Damn…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.24.10
ProSystem fx® Portal
CCH (Oct 2010)
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Air Cars – Here, There. Everywhere
BrassCheck TV (Oct 2010))
Alex Jones Exposes Google’s Plan to Dominate the Internet
YouTube (19 Aug 10)
Lies, Dam…
Barney Frank Does the Barney Shuffle
One of the Massachusetts Congressional races is using a new, more unorthodox approach to video ads!
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Radio Flyer Car
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.21.10
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 21, 2010.
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Primal Body, Primal Mind
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The Solari Report – 21 Oct 10
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On this week’s Solari Report I will be speaking with nutrition and neurofe…
US Unemployment Greater for Men
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If This Is True…… KaBOOM
By Karl Denninger
I don’t know.
Multiple people have told me this before.
Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about this for a long time. I get “whispers” all the time from people who I know actu…
Mortgage “Push-Button Fraud”
Yesterday, I showed that mortgages were fraudulently pledged to multiple buyers at the same time.
Today, foreclosure expert Neil Garfield (former investment banker, trial lawyer and board member of…
Mortgage "Push-Button Fraud"
Yesterday, I showed that mortgages were fraudulently pledged to multiple buyers at the same time.
Today, foreclosure expert Neil Garfield (former investment banker, trial lawyer and board member of…
The Rebirth of the Maker Movement
Follow a diverse group of makers and entrepreneurs as they document the achievements of current makers and the revolution they have inspired.
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(19 Oct 10)
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Housing Losses
April Charney, a senior staff attorney for Legal Aid in Jacksonville, Florida…
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Quote du Jour
The poet and the professor… Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, August 1941.
“Evidently, the only way to find the path is to set fire to my own life.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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Catherine’s Cleansing
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Several people have asked me what methods I use for detoxification. Here are the actions that I use that work for me.
Testing (Since 2006):
I get a 24 hour heavy metals …
Catherine's Cleansing
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Several people have asked me what methods I use for detoxification. Here are the actions that I use that work for me.
Testing (Since 2006):
I get a 24 hour heavy metals ur…
Above the Law
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MSNBC (18 Oct 10)
NY Fed And PIMCO Sue B of A Over Mortgage Putbacks
By Joe Weisenthal
CNBC confirms that the New York Fed is part of a consortium that have launched a lawsuit against BofA regarding Countrywide mortgages.
Shares are now off 3%.
Bank of America is ge…
Pritzger: Subprime, Obama, Now Apartment Buildings
Obama’s Sub-Prime Conflict
By Dennis Bernstein
I remember my first piggy bank: a little pink piggy, made of plastic, with a little slot at the top. The slot was big enough, perhaps, to fit a half …
FX Wars Escalate: Brazil Cancels Participation In Upcoming G20 Meeting
Zerohedge – Tyler Durden (18 Oct 10)
The latest currency war escalation does not come from any of the usual suspects (the Fed-PBoC-BOJ-ECB-SNB hate pentagongram) but from non-axis player Brazil. An…
‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’
By Michael Roberts
My name is Michael Roberts, and I am a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., based in Houston (that is, I still am for the time being). This morning as I attempted to pass through…
Banks Load Up on Government Securities
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Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion
By Liz Rappaport, Aaron Lucchetti and Stephen Grocer
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[Note from CAF: Keeping individual compensation at high levels is one of the benefits of Wall Street protect…
Father of Fractal Geometry Passes
Benoit Mandelbrot
20 November 1924
14 October 2010
Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United Sta…
Quote du Jour
“From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”
~ Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1913, commenting on the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank
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FDA Targets Chelation Therapy Drugs
By Rob Stein
Federal health officials on Thursday announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for conditions such as aut…
Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence servi…
Carolyn Betts for Columbia Township Fiscal Officer
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Solari, Inc., Catherine Austin Fitts, President, P.O. Box 157, Hickory Valley, TN 38042.
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.17.10
AIG Raises $17.9 Billion And Prices AIA IPO at Top
Reuters (22 Oct 10)
Unethical Investing By Charities
Alrroya (21 Oct 10)
Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes
Bloomberg (21…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.17.10
AIG Raises $17.9 Billion And Prices AIA IPO at Top
Reuters (22 Oct 10)
Unethical Investing By Charities
Alrroya (21 Oct 10)
Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes
Bloomberg (21…
Eric Holder To Prosecute Distribution, Possession If Prop. 19 Passes
By Marcus Wohlsen
Attorney General Eric Holder is warning that the federal government will not look the other way, as it has with medical marijuana, if voters next month make California the first s…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.17.10
Gold May Hit $1,850 By Dec 2011
Rediff.com Business (22 Oct 10)
Now -That – Was a Gold Bubble
timiacono.com (20 Oct 10)
Chinese Silver Exports Expected to Plunge, Diverted by Investment Demand
GAT…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.17.10
The Rent Too Damn High in Dubai? Not So Much
Time (22 Oct 10)
New York Judge Orders Foreclosure Lawyers Held Accountable For Accuracy Of Paperwork
The Huffington Post (20 Oct 10)
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Foreclosu…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.17.10
The Rent Too Damn High in Dubai? Not So Much
Time (22 Oct 10)
New York Judge Orders Foreclosure Lawyers Held Accountable For Accuracy Of Paperwork
The Huffington Post (20 Oct 10)
YouTube
Foreclosu…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.17.10
Sarkozy Sets The Heavy Squad on The Riots as Demonstrations Over French Pension Reforms Continue For Ninth Day
Mail Online (22 Oct 10)
Foreclosure Freeze Could Put Security Clearances at Risk
The Was…
Food & Health – Week of 10.17.10
Experts Admit Swine Flu Jab ‘May Cause’ Deadly Nerve Disease
Mail Online (16 Oct 10)
Foodstamp Usage Climbs To New All Time Record Highs
Zero Hedge (6 Oct 10)
Food & Health – Week of 10.17.10
Experts Admit Swine Flu Jab ‘May Cause’ Deadly Nerve Disease
Mail Online (16 Oct 10)
Foodstamp Usage Climbs To New All Time Record Highs
Zero Hedge (6 Oct 10)
The Fort Knox Question
By David Liechty
Question from a Solari Report Subscriber:
Is there gold in Ft Knox? – Who does it belong to? – Are the bars real or phony?
According to the U.S. Mint website, the U.S. Bullion D…
Life – Week of 10.17.10
How to Opt Out of The TSA’s Naked Body Scanners at The Airport
Natural News (19 Oct 10)
Unemployed Entrepreneurs: In The Absence of Jobs, Some People Create Their Own
The Huffington Post (21 Oct 10)
Science & Technology – Week of 10.17.10
What To Do If We Find Extraterrestrial Life
MSNBC (18 Oct 10)
Google to Bring Dead Sea Scrolls Online
Yahoo Finance (19 Oct 10)
Father and Son Launch iPhone Into Space
Mashable.com (18 Oct 10)
Fac…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.17.10
What To Do If We Find Extraterrestrial Life
MSNBC (18 Oct 10)
Google to Bring Dead Sea Scrolls Online
Yahoo Finance (19 Oct 10)
Father and Son Launch iPhone Into Space
Mashable.com (18 Oct 10)
Fac…
Foreclosure Crisis Slams Into Banks
By Mark Gongloff
The mortgage-foreclosure crisis spilled into the financial markets on Thursday, driving down bank stocks and weighing on mortgage bonds as investors took a grim view of the potential…
Quote du Jour
“Humans adapt remarkably well to disaster as long as the disaster occurs over a long period of time.”
~Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill, “The Age of Autism”
Battlestar Galactica
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Navigating the Housing Bubble
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I was assistant secretary of HUD during Bush I and the lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration under President Clinton, I watched from the position…
Catherine’s Letters to New York Times “Tapeworm” Economics of Prison Stocks
Catherine’s letter to the NY Times about the perverse incentive systems and “tapeworm” economics of prison stocks before she knew that Dillon had banked and cashed out of Cornell:
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Catherine's Letters to New York Times "Tapeworm" Economics of Prison Stocks
Catherine’s letter to the NY Times about the perverse incentive systems and “tapeworm” economics of prison stocks before she knew that Dillon had banked and cashed out of Cornell:
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The Wheels Are Coming Off in MBS Land: All 50 State AGs Join Probe; Banks Abandoning MERS Foreclosures
By Yves Smith
I get on an airplane, and there are more dramatic developments by the time I land.
Even though the headline item is the fact that the attorneys general in all 50 states are joining t…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.14.10
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 14, 2010.
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.14.10
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 14, 2010.
Cl…
Federal Court Overturns Ban on Milk Labeling
The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an Ohio state ban last week that prohibited dairy not treated with bovine growth hormone from being labeled “rbGH free,” “rbST free” or …
Precious Metals Market Report – 14 Oct 2010
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
I’m in Silicon Valley for the month of October. So I …
?The Essence Of The Banking Industry…?
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The International
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) pool their resources in an attempt to break up an intern…
Excerpts: Catherine in 2009
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Foreclosure Scandal Far More Serious Than Media Is Letting On
By Sam Smith
If you were to sign a false legal document, the courts and police would not call it “flawed paperwork.” But that’s the term the Associated Press is using about the foreclosure situatio…
Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies
This is a series giving a basic explanation of the current foreclosure fraud crisis: This is Part One.
The current wave of foreclosure fraud and the consequences for the economy are difficult to fo…
Quote du Jour
“It is no secret to most of you that our most significant results over many years have been the result of concentration in certain assets that, from time to time, go unloved.
As an example, oil at $…
G20 Summit – November 2010
2010 G-20 Summit – Seoul, South Korea
Agenda:
Ensuring global economic recovery
Framework for strong, sustainable, and balanced global growth
Strengthening the international financial regulator…
The Metropolitan Opera Comes to Your Hometown
One of the many benefits of a career in New York was having season box tickets to the Metropolitan Opera. I used to see the opera and then walk home past Tower Records where I would load up on opera…
Die Bandwurm-Ökonomie
Lars Schall has just translated my article “The American Tapeworm” into German.
Here it is!
Freitag, 8. Oktober 2010 22:23
von Catherine Austin Fitts , Übersetzung von Lars Schall
Kehren wir ei…
A Favorite Verse
–Yes, in those wanderings deeply did I feel
How we mislead each other; above all,
How books mislead us, seeking their reward
From judgments of the wealthy Few, who see
By artificial lights; how the…
Organic Egg Report and Scorecard
The Cornucopia Institute’s report, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture, will empower consumers and wholesale buyers who want to invest their f…
IMF Meetings End Without Resolution to Currency Crisis
By Suzanne Presto
The International Monetary Fund concluded two days of talks in Washington Saturday without reaching a solution to address rising tensions about currency exchange rates. Meanwhil…
British Navy to Reduce to Smallest Size Ever to Save Carriers
The Navy is set to be reduced to the smallest size in its history after admirals yesterday offered drastic reductions in the fleet in order to save two new aircraft carriers from defence cuts.
By T…
Commodity Price % Increases Year over Year
Agricultural Raw Materials 24%
Industrial Inputs Index 25%
Metals Price Index 26%
Barley 32%
Oranges 35%
Beef 23%
Pork 68%
Salmon 30%
Sugar 24%
Wool 20%
Cotton 40%
Palm Oil 26%
Hides 25%
Rubber 62%
Ir…
Thoughts on Financial Reporting
By Rob Kirby
First reported by Dawn Kopecki back in 2006 when she reported in BusinessWeek Online in a piece titled, Intelligence Czar Can Waive SEC Rules , “President George W. Bush has bestowed o…
?The Vanishing of the Bees
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The Biggest Fraud
By Ezra Klein
Janet Tavakoli is the founder and president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc. She sounded some of the earliest warnings on the structured finance market, leading the University of C…
Revolt of the Accountants
By Peggy Noonan
Washington is turning America into Paperwork Nation.
If you write a column, you get a lot of email. Sometimes, especially in a political season, it’s possible to discern from it ce…
The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off
By David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick
Since 1991, the telecom companies have pocketed an estimated $320 billion — that’s about $3,000 per household.
This is a conservative estimate of the wide-scale…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.10.10
OPEC Members Seek $100 Oil to Counter Dollar Weakness
Bloomberg (15 Oct 10)
Recession Will Never End If This Tunnel Isn’t Built: Joe Mysak
Bloomberg (14 Oct 10)
Cotton Surges Exchange Limit to Reco…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.10.10
OPEC Members Seek $100 Oil to Counter Dollar Weakness
Bloomberg (15 Oct 10)
Recession Will Never End If This Tunnel Isn’t Built: Joe Mysak
Bloomberg (14 Oct 10)
Cotton Surges Exchange Limit to Recor…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.10.10
Somebody Jumps Through Hoops to Get Real Gold Out of an ETF
GATA (14 Oct 10)
BIS Collects a Lot More Gold, But From Whom?
GATA (13 Oct 10)
Gold Surges To Fresh Record Spot Of $1,367.65 On Report Chi…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.10.10
The Real Danger From the Foreclosure Crisis
Washingtons Blog (15 Oct 10)
Foreclosure Fraud: Megabanks At Risk As Analyst Identifies New Problems With Mortgages
The Huffington Post (14 Oct 10)
Fore…