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Bloomberg News: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. wants to repay the $10 billion it got from the U.S. Treasury last year to signal the firm is healthy and to escape limitations that were imposed with the mon…
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The Solari Report – 05 Feb 2009
A member of the Solari network just called me. Several years ago, inspired by our warnings, she moved to a h…
Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics is the Sherlock Holmes on the tail of the derivatives cabal. Here is the product of his latest sleuthing.
By Catherine Austin Fitts
For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from a thousand or more miles away. Our savings are shipped into distant …
U.S. Treasury in Plans For Record Debt Sale
Financial Times (04 Feb 2009)
How to Rescue the Bank Bailout
truthout.org (26 Jan 2009)
Fiscal Stimulus Bang For the Buck
Moody’s Economy.com ( Feb 2009)…
County to State of California: Check Is Not In the Mail
sun-herald.com (04 Feb 2009)
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan Plead Guilty to Fraud
Associated Content (28 Jan 2009)
Support for…
Gold Currency Bill in the Colorado Legislature
state.co.us
Gold Currency Bill in Indiana
indiana.gov
RBI Yet To Renew Silver Import Licence
The Economic Times (04 FEB 2009)
Cash 4 Gold Would Like …
Don’t Underestimate Agrotherapy’s Curative Powers
pressdemocrat.com (01 Feb 2009)
Addiction Is A Genetic Disease
Power And Control (18 Jan 2007)
Few Changes Expected for Recently Sold White Dog
The …
Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Man-made, Say Scientists
Telegraph.co.uk (03 Feb 2009)
Car Wreck, Circa 1912
safetycenter.navy.mil (Feb 2009)
To Avoid Going Broke, Mainers Are Fixing It
Portland P…
Occasionally I have someone tell me that they have to subscribe to corporate media because they need to know what “they” are saying. I understand how these people feel. I broke down two years ago an…
The following appeared in the Rock Creek Free Press
Casey Research, of Vermont, has analyzed the costs of the government bailouts of the housing crisis, the credit crisis and others and has conclud…
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may…
Lending Drops at Big U.S. Banks
Wall Street Journal (26 Jan 2009)
Fannie Mae Foreclosure Sale at 50 Cents on $1 Shows Price Reset
Bloomberg (28 Jan 2009)
Putin Calls for End of Dollar Stranglehold
T…
Grand Jury Investigates Los Angeles Priest Cases
NY Times (29 Jan 2009)
Wen and Putin Lecture Western Leaders
Financial Times (29 Jan 2009)
Behind the Executive Orders
truthout.org (25 Jan 2009)
I…
Gold Pushes Above $900 in Buying Spree
Financial Times (26 Jan 2009)
Silver Investigation: Stakes Are Enormous
investegate.co.uk (27 Jan 2009)
Honey Laundering: Tainted Product Still Slips Easily Into U.S.
Seattlepi.com (25 Jan 2009)
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
Washington Post (26 Jan 2009)
Nations Turn To Barter …
Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis
truthout.org (28 Jan 2009)
Postmaster General: Mail Days May Need To Be Cut
breitbart.com (28 Jan 2009)
For Nearly Half of America, Grass Is …
Mark Lundeen each week sends me his comparison of the Dow Jones Industrial Average decline since October 2007 relative to declines after September 1929. Given the dependency of large cap stocks on ear…
According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, in The Funding Status of Locally Administered Pension Plans by Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Kelly Haverstick, US state a…
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
– Romans 10:15
The Department of Agriculture continues its efforts to implement the National Animal Identification System. Here are proposed new rules published on January 13, 2009.
According to a NY Times article, the following industries have experienced significant sales growth in the last 12 months (privately owned companies only):
View a complete list in the NY Times arti…
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The Solari Report – 22 Jan 2009
Michael Corleone: “My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or se…
Well, we have swapped real assets for paper. Now we cannot even get the paper:
SEC Approves Eliminating Paper Certificates for Withdrawals-by-Transfer
Leaving your current place of employment? Here are frequently asked questions about IRA rollovers from employee sponsored plans.
Read the complete article …
by James Turk
Read the full article on gata.org
An important document buried in the Federal Reserve’s archives has been discovered by writer and researcher Elaine Supkis. This document is posted on…
What Companies Are Actually Doing Well?
NY Times (20 Jan 2009)
The Economy Gets Top Billing, but Congress May Also Try to Revamp 401(k) and IRA Plans
Yahoo Finance (22 Jan 2009)
Treasury Nominee Gei…
Intelligence Agencies’ Databases Set to Be Linked
Wall Street Journal (22 Jan 2009)
Henry Kissinger: The World Must Forge a New Order or Retreat to Chaos
The Independent (20 Jan 2009)
Clinton Confir…
Gold Is Shifting From West to East – Along With The Balance of Power
Money Week (21 Jan 2009)
GATA’s Tenth Anniversary: Gold Manipulation Evidence Mounts
goldseek.com (19 Jan 2009)
Thinking the …
Counterfeit Foods Enter the U.S. Market
USA Today (19 Jan 2009)
Six Reasons Why Appointing Monsanto’s Buddy Vilsack for USDA Head Would be a Terrible Idea
Organic Consumers Association
Study Shows ‘…
Back on Tracks
Washington Monthly (Jan 2009)
2008 Global Temperature
NASA (21 Jan 2009)
Vatican To Get Own YouTube Channel
Reuters (19 Jan 2009)
Larry Summers, engineer of the housing bubble and gold price suppression, is returning to power on Monday. Ditto, the folks who lost $3.3 trillion at the Pentagon.
Now Paul Volcker, former Fed Chai…
The key to recovery is jobs and income. Real income must increase across a broad cross-section of the country – unlike the past decade or so when income and wealth became concentrated to record lev…
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The Solari Report – 15 Jan 2009
In 1997, I had approximately $500,000 of assets sitting in a 401(k) at T. Rowe Price. The funds represented a portion of the mon…
by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
National Geographic’s January issue has what has been the usual “global” sort of article about gold mining, written by Brook Larmer, accompan…
Chaos & Order – A Breakpoint for the Global Monetary System
dollardaze.org (12 Jan 2009)
Wall Street Powerhouses Invested Alongside Madoff
Pam Martens / counterpunch.org (15 Jan 2009)
Bank of Americ…
The financial fraud known as “pump and dump” involves artificially inflating the price of a stock or other security through promotion, in order to sell at the inflated price. This practice is il…
Chávez Lets West Make Oil Bids as Prices Plunge
NY Times (14 Jan 2009)
U.S. Military Report Warns ‘Sudden Collapse’ of Mexico is Possible
El Paso Times (13 Jan 2009)
More Than a Good Feeling
Slate …
Jim Willie – New World Currency Coming Soon Backed by Gold!
Youtube
An Interview with Albert Bates
Hen & Harvest (14 Jan 2009)
Mississippi Family Uses ‘Permaculture’ Methods for Sustainable Food Source
commercialappeal.com (16 Jan 2009)
The Non-GMO Project Product V…
Williard Wigan, Micro Sculpter, Sells Life Work for $20MM
youtube.com
Never Speak to a Policeman Without Your Lawyer Present
Gary North
Californians Look for the Exit
Yahoo News (12 Jan 2009)
Study…
Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2
NASA (08 Jan 2009)
This Saturday night, Jan. 10th, a perigee Moon is coming — the biggest full Moon of 2009. Johannes Kepler explained the phenomenon 400 year…
CNN is running the documentary ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ this weekend. We thought you might find our commentary from this summer regarding ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ of interest.
Citigroup Inc. said Robert Rubin has retired from the bank. According to a spokesman, “Rubin did not anticipate the ‘extreme circumstances’ that the financial system now faces.”
Robert Rubin Quits …
In fiscal 1999, the Department of Defense was “missing” $2.3 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, it is approximately 3X what President-elect Obama is .
In fiscal 2000, the…
The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by…
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The Solari Report – 08 Jan 2009
“Tell me why I’m so lucky!” This was the challenge hurled by the head of Capital Markets of my former Wall S…
There appears to be a chorus of people with very good resumes predicting that the dollar is about to fall. While the economic fundamentals for the U.S. dollar are dreadful, they have been so for qui…
Obama Picks Leon Panetta to Head CIA
Yahoo News (05 Jan 2009)
Leon Panetta on Wikipedia
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Central Intelligence Agency on Wikipedia
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Bank of England Says Interest Rate Cuts Won’t Be Enough
The Telegraph (8 Jan 2009)
State Unemployment Claim Systems Overwhelmed
Yahoo News (6 Jan 2009)
Great Depression Jobs Parallel May Not be Far …
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair Call for New Capitalism
Yahoo News (8 Jan 2008)
Obama’s Black Widow
truthout.org (23 December 2008)
Time to Stop Being Afraid of Israel
Progressive Review
Russian Gas Flow to…
Merrill Lynch Says Rich Are Turning to Gold Bars for Safety
The Telegraph (08 Jan 2009)
Former Fed Governor Hints at Big Upward Revaluation of Gold
GATA (12 Dec 2008)
Gold Glitters, But Some Bugs Ar…
The Outcry is Muted, but the Food Crisis is Getting Worse
The Guardian (9 Jan 2009)
A 50-Year Farm Bill
NY Times (4 Jan 2009)
The World’s Simplest Cure for Cancer – The Beautiful Truth Movie
The Bea…
Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months
Fox News (9 Jan 2009)
Philips Illuminates World’s First LED Nation
colorkinetics.com
Pelicans Fall Out of Sky From Mexico to Oregon
Seattle Times…
This government has lost the capacity to govern because a shadow government has taken over. The narco-mafia state is now completely consolidated.
— Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan finance minister on cor…
The following snapshot from MarketWatch reveals that 2008 was, indeed, a difficult year for many investors.
These days I am wondering if Madoff’s biggest problem is that he stole from the rich. Feels to me like when you steal from ordinary people, particularly when it makes the rich much richer, it is cal…
One of the things that makes a town wonderful is a great local newspaper. Hohenwald, Tennessee (of financial permaculture fame) has the Lewis County Herald, which is the finest local newspaper I hav…
The housing and derivatives bubble sure was good for retired Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and wife NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. They just turned up in the University …
Forty years ago, America’s cultural icons expressed the frustratation of the American people with the failure of then-President Lyndon Johnson to end this country’s undeclared war in Vietnam by bold…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the summer of 2000, I asked a group of 100 people at a conference of spiritually committed people who would push a red button if it would immediately stop all narcoti…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the summer of 2000, I asked a group of 100 people at a conference of spiritually committed people who would push a red button if it would immediately stop all narcotics…
IMF Agrees $2.5bn For Belarus
Telegraph.co.uk (01 Jan 2009)
Japan’s Bonds May Post First Loss Since 2003 as Debt Sales Rise
Bloomberg (02 Jan 2009)
Money Flows Out Of Hedge Funds At Record Rate
F…
IMF Agrees $2.5bn For Belarus
Telegraph.co.uk (01 Jan 2009)
Japan’s Bonds May Post First Loss Since 2003 as Debt Sales Rise
Bloomberg (02 Jan 2009)
Money Flows Out Of Hedge Funds At Record Rate
F…
Russia-Ukraine Gas Row Heats Up
News.bbc.co.uk (31 Dec 2008)
Bush Signs Pension Relief Bill Into Law
Reuters (30 Dec 2008)
Pakistan Moves Troops To Indian Border
Financial Times (30 Dec 2008)
IDF …
Chinese Drywall Causes Problems on Florida’s Treasure Coast
TCPalm.com (24 Dec 2008)
Chinese Drywall Causes Problems on Florida’s Treasure Coast
TCPalm.com (24 Dec 2008)
How We Went From $42,000 To $6,500 And Lived To Tell About It!
CountrySide (31 Dec 2008)
Gallup: Americans See Religious Influence Waning
USA Today (29 Dec 2008)
Helen Fisher: The Science of Love, a…
Using Your Credit Cards and Other Depression Survival Tactics
lewrockwell.com (17 Dec 2008)
Ecuador Defaults, Says to Fight “Monster” Creditors
Reuters (12 Dec 2008)
America’s Total Debt Report: $53…
Using Your Credit Cards and Other Depression Survival Tactics
lewrockwell.com (17 Dec 2008)
Ecuador Defaults, Says to Fight “Monster” Creditors
Reuters (12 Dec 2008)
America’s Total Debt Report: $53…
Israel Strikes Demolish Hamas Compounds, Kill 192
Truthout (27 Dec 2008)
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source in 2008
PewResearchCenter (23 Dec 08)
CIA Using Viagra to Bribe Afghan Warlords
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The Solari Report – 26 Dec 2008
The global financial bubble burst in 2008 — and that’s a good thing. It means that the bubble economy will …
Electric Drag Racing
Oregon Public Broadcasting
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
NY Times (26 Dec 2008)
Home Foreclosures and Taxes
kiplinger.com (18 Dec 2008)
New Rules on Home-Sale Profits
kiplinger.com (17 Dec 2008)
New Tax Breaks for Homeowners
kiplinger.com (15 Dec 2008)
Venezuela to Seize Gold Concessions as Oil Falls
Yahoo Finance (27 Dec 2008)
Positive Carry
Kitco.com (09 Dec 2008)
GoldDrivers 2009 – Extraordinary Bullish Outlook for Gold
Goldseek.com (23 Dec 2…
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message of 1949 has been republished by the Wall Street Journal every Christmas since. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Christ…
Dam Breach in Tennessee Releases Tsunami of Toxic Coal Sludge
Solve Climate (23 Dec 2008)
Dam Breach in Tennessee Releases Tsunami of Toxic Coal Sludge
Solve Climate (23 Dec 2008)
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The Solari Report – 18 Dec 2008
It is difficult for me to express …
What we’re witnessing isn’t finance or investment as usual. We’re watching a shift to a managed economic structure, where government officials determine who will live and who will die. It’s a shift fr…
The U.S. Dollar just took a nose dive….
Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners and the Immense Threat to Human Access to Seeds
Monsanto’s Destruction of Seed Cleaners and the Immense Threat to Human Access to Seeds
Bernie Madoff on the Modern Stock Market
I have started and managed several small businesses. It is hard to run one set of books for a small business. There are other people involved — not just the…
Bernie Madoff on the Modern Stock Market
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I have started and managed several small businesses. It is hard to run one set of books for a small business. There are other people involved — not…
UAW Busting, Southern Style
Truthout (18 Dec 2008)
Obama Names Insider to Commodities Post
The New York Times (18 Dec 2008
Toronto Stock Exchange Suffers Daylong Trading Halt (Update3)
Bloomberg (1…
UAW Busting, Southern Style
Truthout (18 Dec 2008)
Obama Names Insider to Commodities Post
The New York Times (18 Dec 2008
Toronto Stock Exchange Suffers Daylong Trading Halt (Update3)
Bloomberg (1…
US Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare, FM3-05.130
wikileaks.org
Jesse Ventura: CIA Embedded in Every State Government
Grand Jury Probes Richardson Donor’s New Mexico Financing F…
People Used to Buy Certificates — Now They Want Physical Gold
GATA / Reuters (17 Dec 2008)
More on Gold Backwardation
James Turk (12 Dec 2008)
FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!
Natural News (17 Dec 2008)
Horrifying New Disease Contains Identical Material to GM “Food”
sott.net…
FDA Stuns Scientists, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers!
Natural News (17 Dec 2008)
Horrifying New Disease Contains Identical Material to GM “Food”
sott.net…
A Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field
NASA (16 Dec 2008)
World’s First Refrigerated Beach To Be Built Next To Luxury Hotel In Dubai
Mail Online (17 Dec 2008)
I have been searching for updates on Bloomberg’s lawsuit seeking disclosure of collateral held by the Fed in exchange for a trillion plus in loans. Kudo’s to Bloomberg’s Mark Pittman for his coverage …
In our December 11 Solari Report, we discussed several of these resources:
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein’s outstanding book explaining the intentional use of violence and torture as part of the ec…
In the 1930s, it was not obvious to people living through debt deflation that their world was coming apart. The crisis came in pulses, each followed by months of apparent normality – like today. The…
One of the most important financial questions on my mind these days is “What is the end game for the ‘strong dollar policy’?”
As members of the economics team who engineered this policy in the mid-…
The Minneapolis Firefighters and the Southern Louisiana Sheriffs have taken on CitiGroup and the Citi board and underwriters. It’s one thing to put up with the New World Order bankrupting your local c…
“Why does Goldman Sachs run your government? What’s wrong with America is that it’s run by investment bankers, mostly from the same bank. How can Americans stand for it? Is Barack Obama from Goldman…
So the Governor of Illinois decides to pull the plug on Bank of America:
Illinois Governor Cuts off Bank of America After Chicago Factory-Worker Sit-In
And look what happens:
Illinois Governor Ar…
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