Alarmingly, the Russians in recent months have been using Cuba to build up a menacing Cold War-era presence at America’s doorstep.

Some Republican and Democratic leaders, along with many of my c…

[CAF Note: The Economist is dead wrong about gun control, but many of their other points are well taken. What is most interesting is that they are saying that the US police state has gone too far an…

by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Recently I had a private conversation with a friend of mine about what is going on in Russia, and the West’s assessment of it. During our conversation, I stressed that on…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As Russia confirms that it will maintain oil sales at current levels, the oil price and Russia equities see a bounce:

5 Day chart of RSX vs OIL vs S&P

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CrowdMed harnesses the wisdom of crowds to collaboratively solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. The company offers individuals, insurance providers, a…

[CAF Note: Friday is quadruple witching day!]

DEFINITION of ‘Quadruple Witching’

The expiration date of various stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures. Al…

Three decades of tougher laws and policing have left nearly one in three adult Americans with a criminal record, according to data kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That arrest wave is wa…

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

I don’t understand why the media keeps saying that Obamacare is not working and has n…

[CAF Note: I live in a rural area and do a lot of online shopping – particularly for books, so I found these numbers quite sobering.]

Independent businesses are poised to draw more people this holi…

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By Julie Bykowicz

Republicans now control the legislatures of 31 states, having just wrested chambers in nine from Democratic hands. Twenty-four of those states also have Republican governors, gi…

BIS warned that dollar loans to Chinese banks and companies are rising at annual rate of 47pc and now stand at $1.1 trillion

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Bank for International Settlements concerned …

A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. The use of term “wicked”…

“Everyone is talking about the stock market,” [Wu Yunfeng, an individual investor from Shanghai] said. “I was eating dumplings at a street side stall and the old lady running the place was buy…

“Make a law, make a business.” ~Old New Jersey street saying

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I thought it worth noting that Corrections Corporation of America (known as CCA, their ticker symbol is CXW) …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our hero this week on the Solari Report is Congressman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio. She just won her 17th Congressional term by a landslide. Smart, honest, hardworking, well educ…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The oil card is now getting an enormous push from the climate change chorus.

ISIS, College protests, OPEC, Al Gore’ whining, George Schultz’s electric car, German energ…

[CAF Note: Great discussion of the game between Russia and the G-7 – but be prepared for versions of this geopolitical parttern where the dollar goes much higher too.]

By Brandon Smith

Despite po…

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” ~ Rene Rivkin

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight is a big one. We will review our allocations and key market indicators and proceed to present ou…

By Susanne Walker and Eshe Nelson

A gauge of government bond yields around the world fell to an 18-month low as tumbling oil prices push down inflation expectations and economic growth falters.

The …

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By Parmy Olson

Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It’s dotted with gifts and photos fr…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I sometimes get requests for advice on how to approach medical problems. I am not the person to ask. Each person is unique and effective diagnosis and treatment can be highl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

My use of the word turtle as a verb began in 1998 during a period of extraordinary stress.

Almost all of my 1,001 best friends and colleagues decided to go with the flow …

***CAF Note: Hagel is competent. This is not good news.***

By Roger Runningen and Phil Mattingly

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down from his post after 21 months in office amid te…

[CAF Note: I suspect the recent meltdown by Bill Gross related more to his fears of managing the world’s largest bond fund in a world of diminishing dealer and institutional liquidity than personnel i…

[CAF Note: the integration of software and digital technology into hardware and infrastructure is upon us. This is an important development.]

By Wikipedia

Mechatronics is a design process that inclu…

By Max Ehrenfreund

President Obama unveiled Thursday a major executive action on immigration policy, offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with an indefinite reprie…

“Now all of political economy from prehistory on to 1932 has been intent upon one thing only—how to take the wealth from the producer, how to take the food from the person who cultivated it and ha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The S&P is up 11% year to date. Alibaba is up 18% from it’s IPO in September. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the national security state, is up 25% year to da…

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying t…

by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever wh…

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the …

“As much as these currency moves may contribute to global rebalancing on paper, I would just caution from a market perspective not to underestimate … the speed and size of currency moves,” ~ Moh…

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By Ralph Ellis

Imagination became reality Wednesday when a mechanical space traveler called the Philae probe plunked down on its target, a comet with a much less romantic name — 67P — some 310 mill…

By Don Reisinger and Roger Cheng

President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a free and open Internet.”

In a statement relea…

By Morningstar

One of the world’s biggest stock markets, Shanghai, will open up to foreign investors next week with the start of a highly anticipated trading link with Hong Kong that gives global mon…

[CAF Notes: I am working on a presentation on how to achieve a college education on the most economic basis and without student loans. Send and post best articles and ideas! Thanks]

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By Ken Auletta

In the spring of 2000, Reed Hastings, the C.E.O. of Netflix, hired a private plane and flew from San Jose to Dallas for a summit meeting with Blockbuster, the video-rental giant that…