Money & Markets Report: August 14, 2025

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That Wile E. Coyote Feeling

August 14, 2025

Money & Markets

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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  1. 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.

    1. 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.

      1. 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.

      2. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

  2. 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.

    1. “Insane”. I agree.
      The less said about this deliberate invitation to the demonic, the better.
      And what is a “Chapel Theologian”?

  3. 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/

    1. 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.

      1. 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.

    1. 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.

  4. Catherine, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! for coming over to “our side” and exposing the chickens/cattle virus op for what it is, a total scam. Tptb are running this op to take inexpensive and healthy sources of protein from us so that we’re too weak to fight back. It’s an old op, some say started in Rome with the wheat trade and the bread and circuses.

  5. Hi Catherine,
    I have just come accross this video, It IS originally in Spanish but I think it works fine with the automated translation option, and in case of any doubt please let me know and I will translate.
    It talks about a possible scenarios of mass psicosis as it happened with COVID but now with AI being engineered by the same people.
    Where they would state AI has gone out of control and after all the fear they would justify to introduce again draconian measures.
    I try to listen to all of your programs but maybe I could have missed if you have already talked about this possibility, if that is the case I would be grateful if you could point me out where to listen to it, in case not I think it is with watching it is only 14 minutes long and is very detailed, would be great to hear your thoughts about it!!
    The link to the video is the following:
    https://youtu.be/v_p8aF0NoO8?si=87tKgWzuCp5BrK7J

  6. In regards to the data center in Tucson, AZ i.e. ProjectBlue, I live in Tucson and the fight isn’t over. The City Council woman (Nikki Lee), who’s district the data center was to be built in, basically said a data center in Tucson is inevitable. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/080525_project_blue_alternatives/nikki-lee-regardless-tucson-city-council-vote-some-version-project-blue-will-built/ The fight is likely moving to the county (Pima County) and possibly the state. However, there is transpartisan opposition to this data center since you can’t drink economic development, and we can ask the people in Abilene, TX and San Antonio, TX about data center claims of “water positivity” (which is the industry’s PR crafted term to deceive communities into thinking the data center won’t suck them dry).

    City and County officials now have the vapors and are clutching their pearls because the public aggressively and vocally opposed this data center.
    https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/080125_scott_blue_meetings_op/rex-scott-tucson-city-meetings-project-blue-were-unproductive-spectacles/ Everyone is in CYA mode since the project was in development with city and county officials/staff since 2023 under the protection of a NDA. Citizens in the area want to know who knew, when did they knoww, and what did they do about the project. City and County officials are circling the wagons as well as former County Chairperson, Adelita Grijalva, who had to have known about the project, but is staying quiet about the issue since she is running for congress in a special election to be held in September.

    Interestingly, aside from one environmental group in Tucson (Watershed Management) the local environmental community was silent about ProjectBlue. Tucson Mayor, Regina Romero, was employed at one time with the Center for Biological Diversity which is headquartered in Tucson. It appears the Tucson environmental community got leaned on or possibly bought off (I don’t have access to their finances to say for certain) to sit out this fight. I share all of this to crowd source a playbook for communities both to be on the look out for these projects being brought into your community and how to fight them. In Tucson the project started out as a poorly publicized zoning issue at the county board of supervisors. Fortunately opposition grew fast, the city was forced into having public hearings where the public raised heck and scared the city council into unanimously voting no.

    The fight continues, and thank you for mentioning it on Money and Markets. I hope you have a great day! 🙂

      1. You’re welcome. The fight continues as the data center proponents are looking at other sites near Tucson in neighboring cities/Pima County/State of Arizona land. https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/15/plan-b-for-project-blue-records-reveal-3-other-sites-considered-for-controversial-data-center/ To implement the control grid, the powers that be *NEED* these data centers so this is going to be a long drawn out fight.

        The planning for the data center in Tucson has gone on under NDA’s since 2023. Interestingly just after Project Blue became public in Tucson/Pima County there was a water conference in Columbus, OH where the players in Project Blue along with the City of Tucson Water department were in attendance. Not necessarily a nefarious event, however the list of attendees suggests tech companies like Amazon Web Services are inserting themselves in water policy. https://www.wef.org/contentassets/62f9720d4da644c39541a77dba9e2a70/reg-list-as-of-june-13-sample.pdf?_t_ip=52.167.144.169

        I haven’t had the time to dive into the report about the “Circular Water Economy” https://www.wef.org/circularwatereconomy that the group running the conference (Water Environment Federation) has produced, but I suspect all of these things are connected. Bottom line everyone needs to pay attention to what is going on in their communities to make sure they are aware of these types of developments.

        1. Worth reading the data center section in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI. I just finished it.

          1. Thank you I’ve listened to several interviews with Karen Hao but haven’t made the time to read her book. I will be sure to do so. Thank you! 🙂

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