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Money & Markets Report: April 24, 2025

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April 24, 2025

Money & Markets

The Quicksand Presidency

April 24, 2025

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Money & Markets

The Quicksand Presidency

In this episode of Money & Markets, Catherine and John delve into the chaotic landscape of the ‘Quicksand Presidency.’ They discuss Trump’s tumultuous handling of interest rates, the Federal Reserve, and his scapegoating of Jerome Powell for economic troubles. They scrutinize insider trading allegations involving Trump’s sons and the volatile firings within the Department of Defense, highlighting the recurrent theme of internal dissent and messy optics in Trump’s administration. They also cover geopolitical tensions, specifically around Ukraine and Iran, and how policy decisions are being made with less regard for effective governance and more for political theater.

They also discuss the tragic ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and their far-reaching implications, painting a picture of an administration fraught with challenges both at home and abroad.

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  1. Clayton ran the Noem story on Redacted and this was my comment–

    250503 BREAKING! The deep state attack on Kristi Noem is connected to the assassination attempt on Trump

    Clayton, during this whole interview neither you nor your guest talked about the key issue, the policy that Ms. Noem is involved in right now, namely, The Digital ID. This plus the CBDC are the last bars to complete our digital jail. Most people, evidently including yourself, believe the CBDC has been defeated. It has not!
    Do your due diligence. I don’t recall seeing you interview Catherine Austin Fitts, but if you haven’t, you need to. Tucker has a recent great interview with her.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pA2TDXtew&t=125s
    Let me ask you, Clayton, do you think those policies are good ideas? Do you think they embody the way our country should be headed?
    Now, as to the handbag. That fits right into the Digital ID in the sense that it contains our current type of ID. If I wanted to give her a taste of what it would be like to have her digital ID taken away and not have her bank account work like the recent hurricane victims and many other victims of power outages, I would take her analog ID first.
    My technical skill set is not good enough to pull the next steps off, but there are people who could do it. If she didn’t get the idea, like the Zionists haven’t gotten the idea that the Iranians could nail their asses to the wall any time they want to, I would escalate right up to taking her online presence completely off the internet. I would disappear her. Digitally.
    It goes without saying that, as this minion, Noem, deserves punishment, so does her boss. As an 80 year old Democrat who came over with RFKjr and Tulsi, Digital ID and CBDC are Crimes against Humanity of a Biden-like level that I would hope Populists of all parties and no parties would oppose. I am deeply disappointed by President Trump’s betrayal of people who, even now, still believe that he gives a shit about ordinary people.
    And I’m disappointed that you and your guest didn’t say a word about this in your interview.

    1. Rising violence and theft is the perfect justification for digital ID and surveillance. Especially if high profile individuals are victims, it makes one think it’s the best and most efficient solution.
      With higher tariffs and degraded economic environment I presume we may witness looting operations and an increase in larceny. Which again, would justify more monitoring.

  3. Am missing the logs previously – available showing topics and times. Don’t want to listen to everything however excellent it is.

    1. OHHH…SO NOW YOU HAVE GOTTEN CONTROL OF SOME OF THE UKRAINIAN THE EARTH MINERALS!!!
      HOPE YOU FEEL IT WAS WORTH IT..
      AM CONFUSED..WE DO NOT EVEN ALLOW THE USE OF OUR OWN EARTH MINERALS HERE…..IT WAS ALL A GAME,THE UKRAINIAN ASSISTANCE????
      SOMEONE,PLEASE, ENLIGHTEN ME!!!!!

  6. I commented a few days ago that the new website was not working for me (hanging) here in Germany, but just wanted to let you know it is working fine here now.

  7. I don’t understand the logic of attributing Trump’s WH as contributing to the ‘scare’ of Covid by exposing the fact that Fauci squelched the truth of it being lab produced.

  8. I am not able to locate the commodities, currency and stock values that are live. Can you supply a link, please? I don’t see the image for it anywhere.

  9. I am having problems with your website. I can login and navigate it, but when I try to go to subscriber input, it says to logout. I logout and then login – same message. I Force Close Safari – that does not work. I logout out and then restart my computer – no luck. I got to that section once, buy I don’t recall how I finally got there.

    1. Just happened to me too. Which is odd because it was working last week. OK, will put in a tech support ticket to get fixed. Thanks for letting us know. Very much appreciated.

    1. Click on download PDF – everything should be there as they are every week except for the additional links that are below. Let me know that works. Thanks.

    1. At the beginning of the genocide I was informed by an Israeli that it was necessary to kill the Palestinian children as they had been taught to hate Israelis. The notion of individual accountability based on evident was out the window. Full on entrainment was how it felt to me. If you watch the Omniwar symposium, I would love to know what mind control weaponry they are using.

  12. What a fantastic new website design–congratulations! As a Solari old timer, first discovering Catherine being interviewed on Berkeley’s KPFA radio by Dennis Bernstein in the early 2000s, it was like divine intervention. Catherine’s been my number one “go to” ever since, always positively enhancing my life.
    Congratulations on your well deserved success and business growth in standing firm in morality and ethics in a worldwide storm of corruption and evil. Infinite gratitude and many prayers for you and the Solari team in your future endeavours trying to save the world for the well being of humanity. Well done! 💛 🥂

    1. Thanks, Sandra. More to do. However, lots of items in the website and software and subscription software to address all the requests and feedback we have gotten. Very much hoping this dramatically improves subscribers experience.

  13. We need to take the 12 to 1 statistic about Ukrainian losses with a grain of salt. This is because Ukraine is retreating under Russian assaults. In general you have more losses when assaulting as opposed to defending (3 to 1 is usually quoted). However, that might be different due to warfare with drones and FABS etc. But the fact that Russians are gaining territory means they can clear out their own dead and wounded whereas Ukraine cannot. Yes, Ukraine is losing, but they are far from being a pushover. I also do not think that Russia will want to conquer the whole of Ukraine. Probably Odessa, Kharkiv at a minimum in addition to the oblasts already mentioned (4 plus Crimea).

    2. Thank you, excellent link. A lifelong Russian history reader due to the murder of Saint Czar Nicholas II and family never held accountable Chabad is key in the spiritual war of enmity against God, Jesus Christ and humanity. Dr. Douglas Haugen is an expert in writing and podcasting about this enmity; he wrote 2 books on the Singularity and Metaverse before anyone. Thanks again.

        1. Shock and Awe Domestic War indeed, peak chaos, every war tool abroad has come home. Began watching the excellent Omniwar, need to finish. Great interview on Tucker, love listening to your stories over and over. Frankly I feel like we’re all native Russians now before the revolution as after 100 years they’ve really speeded up.
          Dr. Douglas Haugen did a good lecture yesterday. He’s quite a scholar, 2 books on the Singularity and Metaverse. IMHO he hits the capstone. 🙏💛
          https://youtu.be/pbILxebz1A8?si=kk7IchO1a91RVSXl

  15. Hi Catherine, you mentioned on the Shannon Joy show a book about how companies made money during the Great Depression. Do you remember the name of the book or author? Also, if you are ever traveling in northeast Florida, we’d be happy to hose you at Amelia Island!

  16. Hello Catherine and Team,
    I really appreciate all that you’re doing and believe that it is critical to the survival of the USA. I’m American but currently living here in Stuttgart, Germany and am just providing this for your information. On the old/previous website for the last month or two I had trouble with the primary video hanging a lot but when I went to the mirror EU it worked fine. But now with the new website when I try to listen to Money & Markets it either hangs or doesn’t work at all. I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that I’m over here in Europe as it sound like it’s working fine for those in the USA, and maybe there needs to be another mirror EU on the new website??? Ok, an update while I write–I’ve got Money & Markets on (for 24 APR 25) trying to play now and it comes on (video and sound) and plays well for about 10 or 15 seconds and then stops again for 5 or 10 minutes–so I guess it does relate to the fact that I’m over here far away from the servers and it’s slowly downloading but not streaming. Anyway, I’m sure you’ll get it fixed and I just wanted to let you know what’s happening from my position in Europe.
    Thanks for all you do and God bless,
    Don Krumm

  17. I am sick to death of this website. Every time I go to another page on my iPhone, and come back to solari.com. I have to start the video all over. It is incredibly frustrating. I’m not sure if it’s a problem with my phone, but I don’t think so. I know that there has been discussion about improved website function. Anyway, from what I can tell this website really does not work well.

    3. I was having this issue before, but I found out lately it now keeps my place. Not sure if this was with the new site format or if it was just fixed.

  18. Nice site! Are the links to the stories with time stamps still available? I don’t see them under the ‘links’. I print one for every week as it helps navigate the stories and refer back to old ones later. Thank you!

  19. I can’t get it to play. I had it playing yesterday But now I just get the picture without the arrow to start the video so I don’t know if there’s a problem with the new website mechanisms or if the problem is with the app on my phone or if the problem is “user in chair”

  20. I’m on the mobile app. I have tried to access the new M&M report but cannot. When I click on the link it just takes me to this comment page with a (non URL) image at the top. Also, I always listen to the MP3 while driving. For previous shows I am only seeing video now, when there used to be both video and audio. Anyone have any tips for a mobile app user on how to access this new show? Much appreciated, as always!

    1. FROM OUR TEAM:
      A half hour ago, I finished restoring the mobile app. I can check this later, but when I tried it just now, it worked with the MP3s.

      Try it now and let me know if it works!

  22. Time to learn somethin about the law in USA? The content below challenges your assertion that the President MUST follow judicial injunctions that reverse the actions he has taken.

    Better coverage of Senator Kennedy arguing that “USA judges in do not have the right to issue universal injunctions that apply to parties outside of the court.” The judicial descions against Trump administration are a result of “forum shopping” … multiple legal actions, “shopped” to specific judges who may rule sympathetically in accord with their activist agenda.

    Content for Senator Kennedy starts at the 28 minute mark …
    Chris Martenson | The Signal Hour (April 25 2025)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yrjErgRWHY

    1. I would caution you that conservatives also shop for the most sympathetic courts. I followed attorney Robert Barnes for a year through Locals.com and learned that this is a game two sides play – I too was pleased when Judge Terry Doughty (as one example, don’t mean to criticize him specifically) issued decisions supporting those who questioned the COVID orthodoxy. Of course when our “side” does it, we think it’s a reasonable idea.

  23. The OmniWar pdf is unbelievable! The graphics are really good. Your team is excellent! I listened to the symposium the day it was presented. I look forward to the one tomorrow.
    Thank you!

  24. Gold outperforming S&P? I like what Martin Armstrong has to say about the price of gold … it is a flight to safety when war is on the horizon. The geopolitics of the EU means that the smart money are selling their assets, converting it to gold and getting it to the US, because they KNOW that there is no way Eurpean countries can fight Russia and win, over Ukraine.

    Source?
    Watch any Martin Armstrong youtube interview for the last 8 weeks (Feb & March 2025). Also, he says the first thng that happens is that countries involved in the war default on their debt. The EU has a systemic problem with collective debt. When the EU formed, they created a parliament, regulations, policy, etc. but they never figured out fiscal spending of individual countries (hence the endless bailouts and austerity programs for Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal), and never connected the debt situation to the value of their currency. After forming the EU, they inteded to fix this problem eventually … but nothing has happened in the past 23 years.
    So, the limits of debt have been reached? Retail investors are not driving the price of gold up, this is instituional buying … probably serving only the wealthiest of clients.

  25. Thought people, especially John and Catherine, would enjoy The Rutherford Institute’s perspective. I think it’s quite accurate. John & Nisha Whitehead. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/how_a_president_becomes_a_dictator_by_executive_order
    I also agree: love the new website. Well done to the entire Solari Team.
    Also, thanks Catherine and John for always calling out what needs to be called out. RFK jr. what a disappointment. I will admit, I didn’t see some of it coming. The AI, invade our medical records, became clear. His VP said it. The suppression of freedom of speech – that’s what I didn’t see coming. From Trump, yep; Kennedy, nope.

  26. Hi Catherine
    I recall interest rates at almost 15%. A Tbond at 7.5% was a great investment and so we’re those 9% CDs.

    I was 25 yrs old and didn’t realize that is was apocalyptic, because it was not. The stock market is well over bought. Everyone was waiting for it to come down. It cleared out some margin calls.

    I’m 72 and am still optimistic about the US. I’m not a Trump fan, but he is trying to bring sanity to the USA, which was in self destruct mode. How can we bring some optimism to our current situation if we are magnifying the current administration. We won’t and then we won’t turn this flailing ship around.

    We must integrate optimism. Our economy has seen much worse and it turned itself around. Your influence can bring that hope. We don’t need to feel helpless our we are doomed. Please look for that light.

    Thank you
    Donna

  28. The question is what does Russia’s “Dad” want Russia to do with Ukraine? And why does Mr Global want a cleared out Ukraine? It seems to me that the US/Anglo syndicate and the Russian syndicate were fighting over who got to control Ukraine and Mr. Global didn’t care who won that control as long as Ukraine was cleared out and ready for a new purpose. What is that purpose?

  30. What shocks me is, that many in my neighborhood believe the lie that Europe is bringing democracy and freedom in the world. The American alliance “little check” method seems very much inbedded here too!

    That the American alliance is flailing about like a wounded animal the rest of the world is smelling, seems succesful contained and hidden from the public at large. If a majority doesn’t wake up to reality we are going to find out CAF’s red button story the hard way! I think the rest of the world is sick and tired of the corrupt wild west tactics of plunder the West is specialized in!

    The West is run by vampires and sadly infected or subdued the multitudes. The big question is, stands the other side for anything better? Momentarely, I see only an effective Jedi – Sith dialectic to bamboozle the multitudes in busy work leading to personal destruction which is worlwide slavery.

    Least but not last Catherine, the new site is beautiful.

  32. Excellent discussion once again. On the topic of the chart that compares S&P 500 performance vs gold over 20 years, some thoughts.

    I’ve worked at 3 of the 500 firms during those years and none were immune to the sort of corruption frequently noted in the broader society and government on Money and Markets.

    Indeed, investing in gold is quite literally burying talent in the Scriptural sense. Yet in the past 20 years the ethical purity of gold has had an outsize allure in an increasingly corrupt society which has the synthetic nature of fiat currency as arguably its most significant root cause. The very fiat currency that serves as the numeraire of the chart!

  33. Concerning your analysis of misallocation of capital, comparing the stock market to the gold price – you are not including dividends and other income provided by the companies in the stock market. I agree, that there is too much money going to the bankers and other people manipulating the financialization of assets, but the analysis is too simplistic in my view.

    1. Dividends and income would not have changed it. Much of the capital I was referring to is an extraction model. Meantime, I agree, the piece could have been much better if I had invested the time to drill down and provide the statistics and graphs on the key points. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to do it. I still decided to go ahead as it was important to frame the concepts. Appreciate your comments.

  36. Russia does not all of Ukraine , just a bufffer that they were forced to get by the neocons -USA who started the war in the first place . The Russians say the west can keep the Nazis ,the west is welcome to them and all the problems that come with those Nazis.

  37. Catherine I feel it is something diabolical inside a person that you are shining a light on. Why would I cheat a person? But the foxes are out there and they see our vulnerabilities! I live by the golden rule, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you! I live by this.

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