Catherine’s Money & Markets Report: May 23, 2019

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Theme:

Developing Tactics for the Road Ahead
-Asymetrical Warfare – learn to see the game – learn to play the game!

Stories:

  • US-China Trade War
  • The Global Huawei Drama – what’s it really about?
  • Australian Election & the Risks of Promoting Climate Change & Leadership in a Multipolar World
  • European Elections; May on the Way Out
  • Uber IP0 – Biggest Drop of IPO since 1975
  • Farrell: Who knew that Mad Magazine took over The Nation?
  • Modi wins big – a Hindu Nation
  • Ford Layoffs
  • Corrections in Equities; Real Estate Performs Ahead of Tech; Interest Rates Low
  • Odds Rising: Recession Ahead

Hero:

Robert F. Smith
The Missing Money A Team

Let’s Go to the Movies:

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator

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42 Comments

  1. Catherine,

    Any chance Pelosi really doesn’t want to continue down the impeachment path?

    I don’t think she wants to continue. She looks forced.

  4. Hi Catherine,

    Just finished this Money & Markets; I can’t wait to find time for Deep State Tactics, and thank you for being willing to re-live all of the trauma in order to share the reality of it with us.

    On asymmetrical warfare, it seems to be standard operating protocol in Chinese strategy, especially in the Art of War (again…). Here once more is a taste of it, though not directly related to the Art of War, as a list called the 36 Stratagems:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems
    (I usually don’t cite from Wikipedia, but this article seems to be done very well.)

    Would you say, in your experience, that aspects of the 36 Stratagems fall under asymmetrical warfare?

    And would you please provide a source or two on how the Roman and British empires (pre-Opium) lost money/went broke trading with the Chinese? This is the first I’ve heard of it and am interested in pursuing this. Thanks again!

    1. After I finishing publishing all of the deep state tactics, I will do a comparison. In my personal experience, the intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, consider the Art of War the equivalent of the Bible.

      1. Great, thank you in advance for both!

        And as I wrote to you before, a lesser-known book on Chinese strategy is called 厚黑學, or literally translated as “Thick Black Theory.” One English translation of it is titled “Thick Face, Black Heart,” which I have been slowly going through for some time now. I hope to have it finally read by the end of the summer. Will update you after I do.

    2. The only source I have is my professor at Harvard summer school in a Chinese History course in 1970. I will see what I can find.

  5. Hi Catherine,

    Just finished this Money & Markets; I can’t wait to find time for Deep State Tactics, and thank you for being willing to re-live all of the trauma in order to share the reality of it with us.

    On asymmetrical warfare, it seems to be standard operating protocol in Chinese strategy, especially in the Art of War (again…). Here once more is a taste of it, though not directly related to the Art of War, as a list called the 36 Stratagems:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems
    (I usually don’t cite from Wikipedia, but this article seems to be done very well.)

    Would you say, in your experience, that aspects of the 36 Stratagems fall under asymmetrical warfare?

    And would you please provide a source or two on how the Roman and British empires (pre-Opium) lost money/went broke trading with the Chinese? This is the first I’ve heard of it and am interested in pursuing this. Thanks again!

    1. After I finishing publishing all of the deep state tactics, I will do a comparison. In my personal experience, the intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, consider the Art of War the equivalent of the Bible.

      1. Great, thank you in advance for both!

        And as I wrote to you before, a lesser-known book on Chinese strategy is called 厚黑學, or literally translated as “Thick Black Theory.” One English translation of it is titled “Thick Face, Black Heart,” which I have been slowly going through for some time now. I hope to have it finally read by the end of the summer. Will update you after I do.

    2. The only source I have is my professor at Harvard summer school in a Chinese History course in 1970. I will see what I can find.

  6. Dear Catherine
    You say that Rome and Britain went broke trading with China and that it was the same intellectual capital model. Can you please explain this to me? Thanks.

    1. They would import something. Then learn how to make it themselves. Then underprice, while encouraging as many exports as possible. Very old model based on high learning metabolism and stealing intellectual capital.

      1. Sorry to bother you on this again, Catherine, but would you have any examples of what the Chinese copied from ancient Rome and subsequently underpriced them?

        1. No. Only have what I remember of my professor at Harvard Summer School saying in 1979.

  7. Dear Catherine
    You say that Rome and Britain went broke trading with China and that it was the same intellectual capital model. Can you please explain this to me? Thanks.

    1. They would import something. Then learn how to make it themselves. Then underprice, while encouraging as many exports as possible. Very old model based on high learning metabolism and stealing intellectual capital.

      1. Sorry to bother you on this again, Catherine, but would you have any examples of what the Chinese copied from ancient Rome and subsequently underpriced them?

        1. No. Only have what I remember of my professor at Harvard Summer School saying in 1979.

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