Music of the Week: May 30, 2025: J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Electrifying, transcendent, mathematically complex, and yet naturally organic and majestic. It is not by accident the most famous fugue by any composer ever.
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Music of the Week: May 23, 2025: JJ – Wasted Love
Last week’s Eurovision Song Contest produced a winner that is actually worthy of mention on our Music of the Week.
Money & Markets Report: May 22, 2025
In this episode, John and Catherine dive into the significant long-term shifts in the financial markets, with a particular focus on Moody’s downgrade of the US’s AAA rating, marking the last of the major rating agencies to do so.
Music of the Week: May 16, 2025: Carrie Newcomer – The Gathering of Spirits
“I have always written songs because I had a question. And good questions can be asked more than once.”
Music of the Week: May 9, 2025: Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
What most audiences do not know is that in 1967, almost 30 years after writing the Adagio as the second movement of his String Quartet, Barber adapted the score for voices with words from the Christian liturgy called the Agnus Dei.
Money & Markets Report: May 8, 2025
In this episode of Money & Markets, Catherine and John delve into various controversial and pressing topics in the financial and political arenas. The focal point of the discussion is the alarming influence of billionaire figures and their children on national sovereignty through financial grifting and influence peddling.
Music of the Week: May 2, 2025: Plumes – Singing for Animals
All animals love music. And with the special resonance that Plumes seems to carry in his voice, the most beautiful conversations become possible.
Music of the Week: April 25, 2025: Curtis Mayfield – Choice of Colors
This week’s music is one of Catherine’s all-time favorite songs. Curtis Mayfield was one of the greatest American performing artists of his generation. Catherine remembers how his music “inspired us to understand and love one another—it called us to the sweetness of soul.”
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Music of the Week: April 18, 2025: Patrick Cassidy – Na mBeannaíochtaí (The Beatitudes)
It is the day of Christ’s suffering and crucifixion, the ultimate sacrifice of someone completely pure and innocent, a day that constitutes a deafening cessation, an earth-shaking hiatus in the course of historical time.
Hero of the Week: April 14, 2025: Leslie Manookian and the Idaho Medical Freedom Act
We now applaud Manookian and her “health freedom sisters” in Idaho, Miste Karlfeldt and Sarah Clendenon, for spearheading the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which Governor Brad Little signed into law on April 4 after having vetoed a prior version the week before.
Music of the Week: April 11, 2025: Joseph Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
What is so interesting about Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major is that it is the first composition for a trumpet that could play the full chromatic scale.
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Hero of the Week: April 7, 2025: Arthur Firstenberg
Anyone who has been attending to the health and environmental ramifications of wireless technologies—and the other modern technologies impinging on the realm of “bioelectromagnetics”—is no doubt familiar with the name of Arthur Firstenberg.
Music of the Week: April 4, 2025: Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
It was Eric Clapton’s 80th birthday last week, which is a great reason to bring him to our Music of the Week.
Book Review: The Rialto in Richmond by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
This one is a barn burner, especially if you are interested in the U.S. Civil War and the monetary and fiscal history of the United States and Europe during that period. It’s got it all—missing money, presidential assassinations, secret technology, Cabinet betrayals, and cover-ups.
Hero of the Week: March 31, 2025: Nina Heyn
As our 1st Quarter 2025 Wrap Up starts rolling out, Solari takes pride in celebrating as our Hero of the Week our very own Culture Scout, Nina Heyn. Nina is spearheading the Wrap Up, which focuses on the theme of Loving Art. In 2020, Nina was also responsible for Solari’s beautiful report titled Visions of Freedom.
Action of the Week: March 31, 2025: Take Action in Your State on Hot-Topic Bills
With state legislative sessions in full swing across the U.S., we would like to remind American subscribers of the importance of making your voice heard about prospective legislation. State legislators pay attention to their constituents’ emails and phone calls. Here are three topics worth chiming in on.
Music of the Week: March 28, 2025: Alexia Chellun – Together
Let’s have another one of those wonderfully simple, soul-filled songs that carry a magic that will unnoticeably uplift the heart.
Trump: The First 70 Days—An Opportunity to Ask Questions
The Trump Administration has been in charge of the U.S. Executive Branch for more than two months. As Catherine and Joseph Farrell prepare for their upcoming dissection of the Administration’s first 70 days (Story #1 in their quarterly News Trends & Stories interviews), we invite Solari Report subscribers to submit questions to inform the discussion.
Hero of the Week: March 24, 2025: Senator Ron Johnson
In January, Senator Ron Johnson moved from ranking member to chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations within the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (a committee that he chaired from 2015-2021).
Pushback of the Week: March 24, 2025: Truth Plus Humor Are Good for Business
At a time of rising consumer fraud, we found the story of how down-to-earth Brooklyn real estate agent Theo Eastwind tries to ensure a good fit between landlord and tenant to be a breath of fresh air.
Music of the Week: March 21, 2025: Misen Groth – Forgiveness
For Music of the Week, we are listening to the opening theme song, “Forgiveness,” of a Danish TV crime series, The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey. The song was written by acclaimed Danish film composer and Emmy Award winner Jacob Groth. Groth has composed the music score for over 30 movies, among them the famous trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based upon the bestselling crime novels by legendary Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
Unveiling the Secrets of Offshore Havens and Their Global Impact with John Christensen
In this episode of the Solari Report, host Catherine Austin Fitts interviews John Christensen, a globally recognized economist from London who has extensively studied and exposed financial corruption, especially relating to tax havens.
Pushback of the Week: March 17, 2025: John Christensen, Investigative Economist
John Christensen is a man of many hats: economist, forensic auditor, system analyst, documentary filmmaker, publisher, political activist—and exposer of the offshore network of tax havens.
Hero of the Week: March 17, 2025: South Dakota Representative John Sjaarda
Representative John Sjaarda of South Dakota fearlessly led the passage of the first Cash Bill in a deep red state. Senate Bill 219 (SB219), signed into law by Governor Larry Rhoden on March 11, requires the acceptance of cash at school-affiliated events, including sporting events, concerts, and plays.
Music of the Week: March 14, 2025: The Wanamaker Pipe Organ
We are as much dismayed as Solari Report ally Dr. Joseph Farrell at the sad news that the three-story Macy’s in Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker building (originally the Wanamaker Department Store) will close in March 2025.
Book Review: Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living by Mo Gawdat and Alice Law
I read Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living because I found Mo Gawdat’s interviews about AI fascinating. He was the Chief Business Officer at Google. After learning about AI and coming to his conclusions about what it meant, he promptly resigned and changed his life.
Book Review: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
Nicholas Shaxson is an investigative journalist who is a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist. Over the years, Shaxson has dug into the extraordinary and rising levels of financial criminality around the world and connected the dots to the economic and financial deterioration that we now endure.
Introduction to Omniwar: The U.S. Misallocation of Capital
We invest our time. We invest our attention. We grow careers. We build enterprises. We save. We buy homes and real estate. We buy and sell stocks and bonds. We add payroll deductions to retirement accounts and pensions. We purchase gold and silver. We use currency. We donate and tithe our money and volunteer our time. We patronize banks and businesses. When you think about it, our daily lives are a continuous flow of investment choices.
Action of the Week: March 10, 2025: Generous Insurance Brokers Take Action When JPMorgan Chase Won’t
Long-time Solari subscribers know our concerns about New York Fed member bank JPMorgan Chase, banker to the likes of Bernie Madoff and Jeffrey Epstein. Wall Street on Parade’s Pam and Russ Martens regularly report on the bank’s felonious track record and the unsavory behavior of its CEO, Jamie Dimon
Hero of the Week: March 10, 2025: Matt Taibbi
People often ask us, “Why does no one else ever talk about the missing money?” In early 2019, intrepid journalist Matt Taibbi did. After the implementation of FASAB 56, Taibbi not only gained mastery over the complex topics of “classified money-moving” and failed Pentagon audits but wrote two excellent articles about these developments at Rolling Stone.
