Money & Markets Report: August 14, 2025
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That Wile E. Coyote Feeling
Join John and Catherine in this eye-opening episode of Money and Markets on the Solari Report. This week, John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts tackle a whirlwind of pressing topics, including the rapid increase of U.S. store closings, the rise of the global panopticon security state, and the impact of tariffs on the economy.
They also delve into the controversial deployment of U.S. military forces against drug cartels, and Trump’s executive actions affecting both domestic and international security. With a special focus on economic plundering, surveillance technology, and the dangers of a centralized control grid, this episode covers essential insights into current geopolitical maneuvers, including Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska to discuss strategic Arctic opportunities. They also examine the ballooning healthcare costs due to pervasive toxic exposures and highlight local pushbacks against invasive technologies like flock safety. Don’t miss this comprehensive analysis of how these trends are shaping our world.
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Crime has definitely gone up in the Democratic cities since “‘criminal justice reforms” where major crimes like robbery were downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor along with no bail. I lived in Marin County and worked in SF from 1984 to 2010, moving back home to a town outside Buffalo in 2017–Thank God. As a victim of crimes in both cities it’s so bad it’s a robbers paradise.
Union Square since 2019, 107 storefronts remain open out of a total of 203. 17 major retailers left SF including the fabulous Nordstrom Center. Reasons: shop lifting, social media planned flash mobs= no safety, major liability. The Soros “elected” district attorney’s would come in their 1st day with reduced or no charges statutes. Democrats (I call them “demonrats”, and I am a former Democrat. The Democrats don’t believe in prisons and believe if you visually fix up the distressed neighborhoods crime will cease, period. CA passed proposition 47 in 2014 which downgraded all crimes. In 2024 CA wanted a proposition to restore proposition 47 but what passed was weaker than 47. All blue cities enacted downgrades in their states similar to proposition 47 as we experience here in Western NY. In SF I was a victim of the ‘”knockout game” where you’ll be walking in the city like you normally do daily and out of nowhere you’ll get suckpunched and a concussion–this is common in the blue cities but recently witnessed that poor single Mother in Cincinnati, OH who was given a brutal punch along with the beaten man she was trying help. Here in Buffalo car robberies are off the charts along with 2 women murdered by a former partner convicted and imprisoned fot murder for only a few years and getting released early and to then murder their former partners who called police to report the harassment only to get murdered due to no sense of urgency in the police department. We have criminals picked up with 40 prior only to get let go. Portland, Seattle, LA, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago are what I call “criminals, illegals & perverts 1st. No jail. No bail. Catch and keep releasing and releasing, steal up to $1000 free”. Recently I had an appointment at Ulta for a haircut. The stylist was visibly upset. I inquired why, and she ssid a blackman came into the Salon and stole high end boxes of perfumes. Mgmt. told all employees to always stand down. They call the Police but they aren’t responsible. This was in a formerly safe town outside Buffalo. Crime was always concentrated in Buffalo hence people who could afford a home moved out to all the suburban towns and beyond. Buffalo will never recover economically unless they overturn those 2014 laws. What company would want to locate a branch in Buffalo if employees are afraid to walk the streets or fear their car will get stolen. Grocery and drug stores have closed due to chronic robberies with no arrests.
In Trump’s EO he provided links on crimes being underreported:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/fact-yes-d-c-crime-is-out-of-control/
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
Manhattan Institute study, “suggest that Prop 47 may have contributed to increased re-offending, including repeat offenses for serious felonies
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I know African-American have been used as proxy warriors for the syndicate and cabal since the end of slavery. Malcolm X always accused and warned his people about the democratic party. It could be opportunity zones or consolidation of monopolies forcing local businesses to close. Whitney Webb reported right after tbe covid con on a DOD report on their number 1 goal. Top on the list was securing more data than China, to upgrade “legacy systems” (not software) such as all shopping physically in a store and to transition entirely to telemedicine. It appears their goal is a “contactless economy” like S. Korea was developing integrated into the control grid.
Having both criminals and illegals on the streets act as low level terrorist groups to keep us in a state of fear. The late award winning journalist, Colin Flaherty, wrote 2 bestsellers on unreported crimes along with a 3rd ‘The Kockout Game”. He referred to American’s inability to see the truth as “Deceit. Denial. Delusion.”
And the syndicate is prototyping future programs to be used on the general population through US immigrants and criminals.
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Yup. Great description. The crime is allowed and encouraged.
You can spin this however you want, the european continent is toast. Our leaders and royal houses are hard core neo-cons, nazi’s, anti-humanists or whatever label you want to use. Within 100 – 150 years it will be depopulated thru horrible bloodshed, famines and gaza like sufforings. In future it can become a nice nature vacation preserve for the rest of the world on the condition they can get the whales singing again. That is the best europe can hope for. Not one western european leaders is sane besides Robert Fico and Victor Orban.
It’s the planned destruction of Edom. The 2000 year blood libel revenge fantasy of a certain m/e tribe. There are hundreds of videos of rabbis openly bragging about it. They call Islam the `broom’ to sweep away the whites in Europe. Time to face facts of who the true enemy is.
If you have a good video as an example, post so we can see the spin.
Here’s one to start. Any of the Seethroughitall compilations on X goes through all the details.
https://x.com/i/status/1928689993444163902
Also, Adam Green, over at https://odysee.com/@KnowMoreNews:1 has many many as well.
I totally agree with you Alexandra. When I last visited Europe in 2019 I cried recalling the days pre Maastricht. My cousins email me that freedom in Europe is gone. Sad indeed. It’s the “Motherland” in my heart and I weep for it.
Alexandra, I agree with you 100%. It is just a matter of time the EU collapses. Maybe karma has catched up to all the mischief the colonial mindset of the European countries have plundered the last few centuries. In 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued papal decrees known as Bulls of Donation. It was the basis for the Doctrine of Discovery which justified the seizure of Native lands and treated indigenous people as slaves. It has never stopped, European countries plundering African, the Americas, Asian countries to build their economies over the last few centuries.
Our unknown incognito anti-human overlords hiding for centuries in Switzerland fleeing the sinking ship with all booty!!
https://gizadeathstar.com/2025/08/switzerlands-quiet-gold-earthquake/
The times they are a’changing.
I am laughing at the notion of stuffing 401(k)s with private equity and other private funds. The issue will be to forever change DOL regs on liquidity and the emphasis on low fees. Intel tried this years ago and was sued in a class action by its participants for excessive fees. The defendant, Intel, played a delay and pray games and it almost seemed the Supremes were told to look the other way and the case with Intel was dismissed after a 7 year fight. Only the lawyers won!
How do you daily value hard to value illiquid PE driven assets? That is the essence and there will be massive software challenges to permit these investments except in the SDBA window.
Excellent points.
I must have no sense of humor, I didn’t laugh. Right now with the options in the qualified retirement plans (e.g. 401K, Smart, TSP, etc.) the employee can select how they want to invest. So, one can avoid the “private equity” option, which in my employers plan is managed by either Black Rock or State Street. We discussed these options in my work unit and basically came to the conclusion that for the asset classes in the Executive Order, an investor would be better off just managing the asset themselves, if that is what they wanted to invest in. Three of us out of about 50 that pay attention to their qualified retirement plans. Three of us have more real assets than securities – imbalanced portfolios. One has two houses, based on being late marriage professionals and two just bought real property and hung on to it. What I would say, is the unintended consequences of private equity are substantial and plusing up the potential funds entering into private equity using retirement plans may end up not being that great of a deal for the employee. Do subscribers want to find their local hospital no longer provides any services that don’t make money? Do they want to discover the ER is managed by a separate company than the lab, the imaging and the day surgery wing? I live in a town with a private equity “hospital” – went from 115 beds to 23. After gutting most of the value out of the facility, the managers tried to sell it, but weren’t able to. One wonders if an employee would actually get much from private equity option in their qualified plan or if it is going to only be beneficial for the fund managers. For example, a manager churning an account to get fees.
I have very mixed feelings about the DC thing. Personally I believe the people who are supposed to keep the citizens and country safe and secure have failed us. Although I believe it’s intentional, planned, and profitable. If they never solve the problem and make it worse, they always have jobs. Once the tax payer funded one’s are broke, they can go to private firms.
I remember a Wharton Prof telling our class that in the future we’d all need our own full-time security, accountant, and lawyer. Hmm…
Saying that the 3-letter agencies know what’s going on and allow it is the same as saying the Governors know everything that’s going on in their State. And I agree, they do know. That makes it even more chilling. To me, that’s saying that they (the Government leaders) endorse and condone crime, child trafficking, prdophilia, organ trafficking, drug cartels, etc. in EVERY State.
Of course, the police and military state is a very lucrative business as Brennan knows…NYTs (?) article of Brennan’s retort (threat) to Obama when Obama wanted to cut Brennan’s funding. Coincidentally, weeks later the Boston Marathon bombing happened. Who couldn’t have predicted something would happen after reading that article? After all, these protectors of “Liberty, Freedom, and Justice for all” need to justify their existence. Meanwhile the government is drawing up leases for its buildings to prisons contractors and pay monthly dividends for their prison stocks.
I read several MSM articles screaming that crime has gone down. So what?! As opposed to what?! Down from a crime level that’s completely unacceptable by any standards?! Come on?! And by what standards?!
DC is and always has been a disgusting, embarrassing cess pool like almost every major US city! I would always hope my foreign friends and relatives wouldn’t notice. US citizens must be in complete denial, completely insulated, and / or ignorant.
Fact: you have more of a chance of being killed in a major US city than being being killed by terrorism.
This information came to my attention during an NPR interview with a ‘security expert’ right before Obama took office. When asked if terrorism would still be the #1 security threat, the ‘expert’ noted that terrorism dropped to a much lower position on a list of ‘top ten.’
If we take a city with a homicide rate of 50 per 100,000, the odds of being killed in that city are approximately 7,246 times higher than the odds of dying from terrorism.
That’s ONE (1) city!! One! In a DAY!!! One day!!!
What happens to that stat if one travels through multiple cities in a day, as I have? What percentage was the drop compared to last year? Are we supposed to be impressed by the drop? Is it now 6000 times higher than terrorism?! So it dropped from 7200+ to 6000!!! Wow, that makes me feel so impressed that out 3-letter agencies, police, and Governments are so thoughtful about our safety!!! This has decay and destruction been going on for decades!!! It’s the boiling frog scenario because no one is paying attention. They all think that somehow this isn’t going to encroach upon them! Now they’re in the menu.
When YouTube started and Bloomberg was Mayor there was a woman who created videos of what she called the ‘real NYC’ and juxtaposed her videos with Bloombergs branding ads!
They were hilarious because they were so true, sadly.
She’d film the subway and show the rats dragging a piece of discarded pizza, homeless people muttering to themselves, unkempt, uncared for, and walking around or sitting in their own feces, etc. You know, the daily harsh reality for the millions of train and tunnel commuters. Then she’d jump cut to Bloombergs NYC branding ads. It was hilarious because it was so true. Anyway, Bloomberg shut her down. Lol.
My point is, are people really this blind to these harsh realities that snack them in the face minute by minute, day by day? Are people blind to the stats? Seems like it. Or are they so insulated that they are oblivious to what’s happening at their doorstep? I wonder.
But now that the upper middle class and upper class are realizing they’re in the menu (they always have been) as I’ve tried to raise the red flag for 4-decades, maybe things will change for the better…I’m not hopeful because of the Yuri Bezmenov timeframe. We’ve been boiled already.
But let’s see! 🙂 I’ve had my head on a swivel in this country since I was 11 years old. They’re destroying Europe too. Places that were once safe and beautiful have decayed tremendously. It’s very sad. It’s a slow process to desensitize people.
You present a much more realistic picture of NY Leslie or of urban areas in the US even today. Folks stating crime stats are down may need to look into how crime is currently being reported in urban areas and how many less arrests there are due to the fact that the slap on the wrist approach to law enforcement doesn’t lead to the motivation of putting life on the line to arrest criminals who will just be back on the streets after the mandatory state “hold”. If folks think crime is down, take a walk in downtown Oakland or parts of San Francisco or DC at 1 am and tell me if you live to talk about it and if you do, you will be minus your purse, phone and/or wallet! After being involved with the management of high rise downtown urban buildings, I can tell you I saw stuff on the streets that as an adult I couldn’t believe, including feces smeared on walls as high as 6 feet. Folks collapsed from being overdosed mid day, fires started after break ins to electrical closets on my sites, security staff being assaulted, theft in the middle of the day from anchor tenants such as major grocery stores, break-ins by homeless who set up interior encampments in vacant office space which cost building space owner’s $6,000 to $7,000 to clean up and I can go on. The news shows you NOTHING. I agree with you that folks have got to get desensitized to this in order to put up with it and that process is slow and ongoing and I believe intentional too.
The city crime stats are concerning as its not clear how they are collected and if the data continues to be comparable over time. For example, in California, crime is just not collected, arrests are not made so it is not reported. On paper it looks like all time lows, but the reality is the crime is actually the same or higher.
What is disappointing (“troubling” in beltway speech) is the nationalized response. Is this “problem, reaction, solution?” Mr. Global (multinational industrial complex) is more than happy to use one party to create a crisis that the other party can come in and fix. The average normie is just focused on restoration of order and certainly would not take responsibility for electing people who encouraged the decline.
Crime is bad in the urban areas. However it is entirely centrally controlled. So if you federalize the police force you simply give more power to the people who controlled it the week before – and have grown it for decades.
Every person every day at all times are under 24/7 surveillance. Every person, every dollar, every transaction. What comes in and what goes out. Nothing happens that is not allowed to happen under central control. DC is a matrix. No crime can happen unless that is the desired state. All the narcotics and child trafficking benefits the top and is official sanctioned. The banks control the transactions. Giving more power to the people who control already, begs the question why they have been allowing this crime all along.
Another NYC ‘story’…I walked out of my building and a tourist couple from what appeared to be ‘a flyover State’ said something about how there were so many ‘tourists’ coming out of the building! I laughed because those were not tourists but my foreign coworkers. Definitely I was the minority and have been for the last 20+ years.
A “foreign” Deloitte employer asked me, at an interview, “How will you ‘fit in’?” This was just after taking me to the cafeteria. It was obvious he was referring to my age, sex, citizenship, and skin color.
Perception is everything. And, those income tax dollars are being siphoned (Ross Perot sucking sound) as profits to multi-national WEF corporations as opposed to US Government (Fed, State, and Local) entities. Maybe that’s why the infrastructure is deteriorated.
Oh well. Another day to turtle on.
What happened to the ‘Edit’ feature? I have typos and am writing with one finger using my phone.
Sorry my comment is so long folks.
The ai confession is insane. I hope they excommunicate whatever bishop allowed that under his jurisdiction. This is more of a reason to say confession face to face. The onslaught against Catholics is over the top. Mr Global sees the confessional as a threat. Scripture is not the basis of the religion, that is a Protestant concept. European parishes are even more lost than the USA. It’s terrible.
“Insane”. I agree.
The less said about this deliberate invitation to the demonic, the better.
And what is a “Chapel Theologian”?
Flock Security is being used in my county in Florida. I started researching it after Catherine mentioned it. I found this article stating their license plate reading cameras are installed across my county. Here is a quote from the article: “Lt. George Harrigan of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office gave Becker a tour of its real-time intelligence center where only four people can track tens of thousands of cars every day using 20 cameras across the county. Becker asked the Sheriff’s Office to search his own license plate in the system and they found 132 photographs of his car from various cameras over the past 30 days meaning Becker was tracked in a database even though he had never been suspected of a crime.”
I live on an island and these cameras are on the two bridges that provide access to island so they know anytime anyone enters or leaves the island. Looks like I’m going to have to do some investigative journalism here to see what Flock does with the data. The police department is lauding the tech as one of their most valuable tools in fighting crime. The article reports the number of stolen vehicles recovered, missing people found, etc.
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/investigates/investigates-some-local-license-plate-readers-do-not-comply-with-florida-law/M3D7EVI42JHVTOR4NG4TFYHJWQ/
Catherine, I’m thinking of starting a local blog and website to cover stories like this. Do you have any recommendations on the best companies that value the 1st amendment for building a website and blog? I have used WordPress and bought domains from Godaddy in the past, but I’m sure these companies are probably complicit in building the control grid. Would like to stay free of anyone not valuing the 1st amendment.
All digital infrastructure is in the system. We use WordPress because it is so widely adopted. The way to deal with the risks is to maintain multiple backups, including off line, and be ready to come back up in alternative locations.
I wonder if offshore wind farms adversely impact the whales. 🙁
Likely
Enjoy your vacations. Great program but I think I have to stop listening to these. My anxiety level is so high now. 🙁 There’s no way I signed up to be in these ‘exciting times.’ No way. It’s not exactly exhilarating like bungee jumping or sky diving. :/ At least not to me.