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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111 Comments

  1. Perhaps the whales stopped singing because they finally got the message – no singing allowed to prevent the spread of Covid.

  2. Catherine, just for some fun while I watch this episode. From my wife: “I love her scarf! She has a vibe.”

    1. 🙂 That scarf was a wonderful gift from a dear friend and ally in Stockholm

  3. Smoking mirrors or can you tell us what you know? I am trying
    to learn but it is so many people scared to tell the truth! People are scared to tell the truth!

  4. In regards to John and Catherines’ conversation today at time mark at 45 minutes about Netanyahu ( go-for/gopher psychopath ) “evacuating palestinians” to the Sudan.
    I remember clearly , JARED KUSHNER in Middle East Dialogues at Harvard in february 2024, advising “bulldozing the Negev.*…so that you can go in there and finish the job” and moving Palestinians there . Here below is the link to JARED KUSHNER in Middle East Dialogues at Harvard .
    Most of Jareds ‘advice’ given herein this presentation has been implemented , including dismantling “anti-semitic ” ( quote Jared ) UNWRA “because they fund Hamas” (quote Jared )
    This is the famous moment he boasts of Gaza as waterfront property.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaIHr5S0ts

    I just pulled this description of The Negev from my MAPS app.
    “The Negev* or Negeb is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region’s largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba, in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city and port of Eilat. It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad, and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin towns, including Rahat, Tel Sheva, and Lakiya.”

  5. 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
    . ”
    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.
    The best weekly financial wrap ups on the internet–thank you Catherine, John, Carolyn and the Solari Team!

  6. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

  7. 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.

    1. 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.

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