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By Ethan Watters

In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machigu…

Flamboyan I group successfully completed their first cycle with a loan from Kiva and is running smoothly. With that loan in the first cycle, their businesses began to flourish. For this second cycle…

CAF Note: We were discussing the Pope’s current dilemma with the Vatican bank – to launder or not launder? The Solari team and I decided to revisit the fundamental economics of conceding the high …

By Gregory Roth

In a court case that could add a new risk factor to some private equity deals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled in favor of the New England Teamsters and Trucking I…

By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal and civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justic…

By Wikipedia

Crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd-sourced fundraising) is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Int…

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By Sam Ro

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday.

Meanwhile, estimates for U.S. GDP growth in 2013 have been falling for two and a half years.

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[CAF Note: Now that large corporate entities have accumulated large portfolios of residential real estate, the US will make changes that makes corporate cost of …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so – although as Afghanistan and Iraq have proved – that can be terribly expe…

By Jennifer Saba

The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million.

The move comes as newspapers face …

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By RT

HSBC has requested embassies and consulates around the world to close their accounts and transfer their funds to other banks within 60 days.

The US…

By John Naughton

As an antidote, here are some of the things we should be thinking about as a result of what we have learned so far.

The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global n…

By Gensler LA

The intent of this Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio was to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constraints impacting and contributing to Downtown…

[CAF Note: This is big. Koskinen is the guy who gets sent in to clean up and manage serious liabilities. In covert operations, a “cleaner” is a person who destroys or removes any incriminating evide…

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By Lars Schall

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter alia, they dis…

By Wikipedia

The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of the well known parables of Jesus….

The parable in Matthew 25:14-3…

By Connie Guglielmo

Apple may get the brunt of the attention for its use of offshore havens to offset the taxes it pays in the U.S., but it’s hardly alone.

Six of the biggest names in technology…

By Du Juan

China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3 trillion yuan being spent on energy-saving …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science and technology news posted on our blog this week, you …

By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton

We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?

In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are…

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dyi…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85 billion level. There is n…

By Rob Wile

Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy.

It’s taken a while for …

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By Seth Rosenblatt

The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San Francisco resident …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that?

Not as scary as an audit of US debt – after all Secretary O’Neill got fired by Bush-Cheney for daring t…

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By BBC

China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector.

Local governments i…

[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?]

By Sebastian Anthony

Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human�…

By Susan Young

Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable memory can be. It also lays …

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[CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.]

By Mary Williams Walsh

Until mid-June, there was one ray of ho…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I drive the full length of North America at least once a year.

From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco and back once or twice a year. Sometimes I go the Northern ro…

Send Musicians To Prison

Do you believe music can heal and restore?

Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot?

Do you believe music can impart worth, and provoke a soul to change…

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[CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!]

By Peter Coy

On July 31, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Anal…

By Bob Ivry

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy as the Federal Reserve reconsiders letting ban…

By Wikipedia

Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to achieve the first circu…

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By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study the chart provided below we find that treasury…

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By CNBC

In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity rates, the tiny Emirate has once again outdone the world in …

By Pew Research

Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think it will eventually supplant the United States as th…

[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011]

By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

In my search to find information r…

By Michael A. Fletcher

Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the nation’s automaking capita…

By Jenna Johnson

Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal student loan interest rates, tying them to mark…

[CAF: Pay Attention. This is a market shifting event. There will be another shift coming this fall when the SEC promulgates rules that permit solicitation to non-accredited investors.]

By Ryan Tate…

[CAF Note: Is JP Morgan shipping back $500 million to fund the $393 million in the Presidents DOJ budget for the gun campaign as well as $93 million for cybersecurity funded from the profits on mana…

By Garakami

Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The telescope was recently approved to be …

By Grant Williams

A few weeks ago, I put a chart with which I am acutely familiar up on my Bloomberg. It is a chart I have studied every single day for over a decade, so by now I know pretty much e…

By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine

G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow has a better chance than most of grab…

By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy satellites) in Utah. As we saw in yesterday’s blog, a …

By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan

After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a sharp decline in the Syrian currency,…

[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest – a work in progress.]

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By Robert J. Samuelson

The International Monetary Fund’s latest global economic forecast makes for unhappy reading. You may remember that, some years back, it was fashion…