“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’…

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…

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…

“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 …

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.

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“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…

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 …

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 …

“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…

“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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“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…

“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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

“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…

[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…

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…

[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…

[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…

“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…

“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…

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The individual.

Imagination. Creating new realities.

Society and civilization as a potential force…

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The Hubris Bubble

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Hubris is pridefulness to the point of cluelessness.

Of all the bubble’s we have managed over the last two decades, the hubr…

“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 …

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…

“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…

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?” ~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 …

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…

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
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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 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 we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly.

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Just received a notification in my VA network that Obama has waived requirements for military members to meet any criteria for getting a lo…

“”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…

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German Foreign Minister Steinmeir: Germany Must Take Up The Mantle of Being A World Power

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Where have we heard this before?

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir re…

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“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…

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…

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 …

[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…

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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…

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…

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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…

“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….

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…

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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 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…

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 …

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

”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…

““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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[CAF Note: Time to start buying dolls at Etsy! Or teaching children how to make their own. Do you really want …

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…

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…

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.

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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…

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…

“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…

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 …

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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…

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“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 Burk…

Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014…

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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…

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…

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“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…

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…

‘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…

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…

‘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 …

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by Ahmed Bilal

One of the major reasons that solar panels are facing such hurdles to replace conventional electricity sources is because they a…

[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…

“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…

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“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…

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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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy

Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging to buy government bonds in an asset-purchase program worth at le…