Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends
By Liz Gannes
Two decades after 1995, the year of the Netscape IPO, the Internet population has exploded in size, it’s much more mobile, and it’s increasingly driven by user-created content and…
News & Commentary
Recharging with Alastair Thompson, Publisher of Scoop Media
“I don’t think a tough question is disrespectful.”
~ Helen Thomas, UPI White House Press Corp
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I arrived in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, on Monday. Kiwi’…
Catherine in Auckland: The Global Rebalancing
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A wonderful audience turned out yesterday to support the Ficino Educational Trust lecture series at the University of Auckland Business School. I gave a presentation on th…
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and Trade Promotion Authority
A note from Catherine Austin Fitts: As the Obama Administration moves forward aggressively with the TPP, I felt it was important for Solari Report subscribers to have an introduction and overview of…
Nourishing Civilization at Ficino School
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Monday was one of the most inspiring days of my time “down …
Footnotes from the New Zealand Budget
By Catherine Austin Fitts
There are some interesting footnotes in New Zealand’s new budget which speak to the re-balancing of the global economy.
View the budget numbers here
View the complete r…
The Stories of Uluru
“Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of madness, tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be time – but you must not speak its nam…
Slow Burn Stats: The Case of the Vanishing Worker
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal published an article describing the unemployment picture in the town of Decatur, IL.
Although the unemployment rate in Decatur …
The Race to Call the Top
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I wonder who flipped the switch.
Apparently last week spin central sent out the e-mail blast, telling everyone to call the top.
Goldman Sachs (who lead the bust of the …
The Entrapment Machine
“All government money comes with a sock in the jaw.”
~ Franklin Sanders
By Catherine Austin Fitts
While I was at the gym this weekend – a rare occasion when I watch television – Senator Bernie…
Has MIT Lost Its Mind???
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream
And who, exactly, is “WE?” Inquiring minds would like to know…
— Catherine Austin Fitts
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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVI
“The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.” ~ John C. Bogle
By Solari Team
Last week we decided to hold off and wait in making any investments into the…
Celebrating the Life of Dr Gwen Scott
“Appreciate the Grace” ~ Dr. Gwen Scott
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was informed by a reader last week that Dr. Gwen Scott has passed from this world. I confirmed this with Clifford Carnicom o…
The Truth About ‘Sell in May and Go Away’
By Sam Ro
It’s May. And one of the oldest “rules” on Wall Street is “sell in May and go away.”
Based on some rough historical observations, someone decided that it might be a great idea to stay ou…
Catherine’s letter to FDA
Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane
Rm.1061
Rockville, MD 20852
RE: Docket No. FDA-2002-N-0323”
Ladies and Gentleme…
Catherine in Sydney, June 2nd: Planet Debt
Catherine will join entrepreneur Jason Bawden-Smith at Enlightened Events in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday June 2nd from 6 pm to 9 pm.
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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…
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…
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…
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
Source: Sovereign Man
Who I Write For
by Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews.com
OutsideTheRealityMachine
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…
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…
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…
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
In from a Solari Report subscriber:
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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Recent Trends in Arms Transfers
Click on the map to see the world’s top 20 arms exporters for the period 2010–2014.
Click on the map to see the world’s top 20 arms importers 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
(Photo Credit: Coolcaesar)
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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2014 Ann…
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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Top 10
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Netherlands
…
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…
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
Morgan Stanley chart showing the net issuance of government debt in 2015…
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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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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part X
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The long Treasury bond is correcting back to the 200 day moving average…
City Wifi: Fast, Cheap, and No You Can’t Have It
Check out the first minute of this explainer from Vox:
by Josh Harkinson
It’s Friday afternoon in San Francisco and, to be honest, I’m sick of being in the office. So I’ve slipped out and headed o…
Recent Trends in Military Expenditure
‘Military spending continues to fall in the West but rises everywhere else, says SIPRI’, SIPRI Press Release, 14 April 2014.
‘Trends in world military expenditure, 2013’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, April 2014…
Why Google Made the NSA
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—
by Nafeez Ahmed
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive stor…
Intervention inCivil Wars ‘Far More Likely in Oil-rich Nations’
‘Once Isis got near oil fields, the US sent drones to strike targets’
by Tom Bawden
Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons …
New Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Breakthrough Enables Doubling of Solar Panel Efficiency
A stock photo of Graphene based transistors. @unknown
by Ahmed Bilal
One of the major reasons that solar panels are facing such hurdles to replace conventional electricity sources is because they a…
America’s Aristocracy is Calcifying
[CAF Note: Obama Administration is dropping the proposal to tax 529 plans.
I told you the week it was announced that it was DOA. You did not even need the Congress to DOA it. The idea of taxing…
Musings on Health, Health Care and Health Insurance
“The American people need health care, not health insurance.”
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Personal health care choices have become a risky gauntlet in America. Increasin…
Change is Accelerating in 2015 – Catherine Austin Fitts
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
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Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part IX
“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to learn into that a…
IBM Announcement Coming Wed; Wall Street will be Snowed In
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by David Goldman
Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The cuts will be …
Lawless Leaders Changing the World 2015
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts says the world is changing through crime by our leaders. Fitts contends, “We are dealing with a lawlessness that is ha…
Whose Claim to Fame (and fortune) is an NSA Backdoor?
by John Leyden
Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor in his open-source operating system.
During a question-and-answer ?session ?at ?the Li…
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
by Glenn Greenwald
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse w…
The Biggest Mass Layoffs of The Past Two Decades
by Jena McGregor
Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce — or some 112,000 jobs — in a “bloodbath” of lay…
Glen Greenwald on Internet Ops
by Glenn Greenwald
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…
The Global Innovation Index
by Bloomberg
Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is heading to the Swiss Alps this year with an upbeat message. “This is a magical time,” says Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and a p…