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Greater Satan Goes for the Gold

January 15, 2026

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Money & Markets

Greater Satan Goes for the Gold

Join John and Catherine on the latest episode of Money and Markets on the Solari Report as they discuss the striking parallels between the late 1970s, early 1980s, and today’s financial landscape. From escalating tensions with Iran and soaring gold prices to the Federal Reserve’s battle over interest rates and the consequences of quantitative easing, they delve into the intricacies of the global economy. The episode also covers a range of critical issues, from the logistics of the US military and ICE operations to local and global financial market trends. Plus, find out about AI’s alleged impact on job markets, privacy laws around ICE surveillance, and how dynamic pricing is affecting consumer goods. Tune in for an insightful analysis of the events shaping our world.

00:00 Introduction and Current Events Overview
00:36 Historical Parallels: 1979-1980 vs. Today
01:37 Federal Reserve and Economic Policies
03:41 Supply Chain and Resource Challenges
10:18 Precious Metals Market Analysis
19:13 Controversial Military Actions
24:43 Federal Reserve Under Scrutiny
38:05 US Foreign Policy and Leadership
41:08 ICE Incident in Minneapolis
46:06 ICE Agents Confront Rene
46:39 The Shooting Incident
47:21 Uncertainty and Analysis
47:48 Call for Investigation
48:50 Trump Administration’s Response
49:55 Cover-Up Allegations
50:33 Local Authorities’ Frustration
51:25 Trump’s Narrative Control
52:17 Legal and Ethical Concerns
55:44 Prosecutors Resign in Protest
58:04 ICE Shooting Statistics
58:38 Increased ICE Arrests and Shootings
01:09:19 Government Overreach and Drones
01:14:22 Global Military Tensions
01:25:26 Analyzing Currency Trends
01:26:26 Financial Warfare and Regime Change
01:26:48 Western PR Campaigns
01:27:27 Ukraine’s Economic Deal
01:33:00 AI Layoffs and Corporate Fiction
01:37:18 Speculating on Home Values
01:43:24 Pushback Against Surveillance
01:52:59 In-House Updates and Art Exhibits
02:01:24 Concluding Remarks and Optimism


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  1. Starmer popularity problems… Solution, delay elections.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us81vNuX81U

    My brainhaired theory of why europe is devolving so fast and slipping into totalitarianism, europe is the main world hub of child trafiking. Shure, it happens in many countries but not on the manifold levels like in europe and being going on for decades and decades. I lived thru the Dutroux period but seen similar in slight different forms unfolding in the Netherlands, UK and Germany. The little ones can be used in snuf films, sacrifices, adrenochrome harvesting, pedo sex rings and when washed out, eventually organ harvesting. All unbelievable lucrative!
    I wonder how many of our “dignataries” are addicted to abuse, adrenochrome and are defending their habits, socalled honor & taxfree extra income? The abuses that popped up over decades have been massive but never ever is any thing been done about it, not even proper investigations in any eu country! Isn’t that strange. The world might being carved up in a US, China and Russia sphere, but within that constellation europe’s only highly valued tradable “raw material” seem to be kids!

    1. Alexandra, during the Biden Administration the testing of DNA on children was stopped that allowed any adult to bring a child into United States. Hence, it is now reported that about 300,000 children went missing and so far during the last year 60,000 migrant children have been saved from sex trafficking, forced labor and exploitation.
      If you wish, you may want to watch on youtube Ronald Bernard, Eurupean banker, about this subject, or Ex Los Angeles FBI Ted Gunderson who investigated this subject matter.

      1. Hi Robert, I have watched both Ronald Bernard & Ted Gunderson. Laws are bit by bit amended to give access to children within european countries and that has been going on for decades. It is a worldwide problem, but I still believe the flashpoint is very european. The compromise might start out as blackmail but seems to transform into a psychological sickness so severe one can’t function coherent. It feels more then just psychopathy.

        1. Pedophilia is a very important tool for multiple objectives:

          1. Loyalty – you entrain a young person to the tribe – just like a farmer will hold a new born cow or foal. There are different cohorts, but the ones who rise to high level are brainwashed to love their “owners.”
          2. Creating conspiracy – in both positive and negative ways. You are in the club. A one hour blow job a week. If you are high enough, you get to impregnate other people’s wives. And a control file. You do what you are told because you paid the dues to enter – and that created a control file. Do not underestimate the craving to be in the club. People will turn over their children or at least one child for pedophilia or ritual sacrifice to get in.
          3. Creating operatives – children can be remarkably trained to implement many secret and covert tasks – surveillance, data storage, assassinations, delivery – and keep it secret as they only remember if the right alter is accessed
          4. Implanting operatives throughout society – this creates people who can be spread throughout society and then accessed only when needed.

          These and other purposes create the infrastructure for long term secrecy and the ability to act outside the law in highly effective ways. Essential for running organized crime and national security while maintaining social respectability and institutional capability necessary to govern/rule. With pedophilia, you help build the human infrastructure for control. It is time intensive and there are obvious risks which is why the Internet of Bodies and Neurowarfare and the digital control grid are so attractive in replacing this infrastructure with a high tech version/prison without the time intensive and risky work of managing humans.

          Part of taking effective action to preserve and grow freedom is to take responsibility for our refusal to look at this, deal with it and stop it. We need to come clean on our own role in pedophilia – among many other harms being done to our children. Hate to say this but a child who has lived with high level pedophilia and as a result been protected against the great poisoning as a high level asset is likely better off than a child whose health has been destroyed – particularly with permanent neurological damage. Parents will turn their children over to these activities because they want their children and/or the family to have the practical benefits that it can bring.

          1. Years ago there was a Beverly Hills attorney who specialized in placing babies born to young girls of privleged families and placed into another privleged family without the process of adoption. Makes one wonder if there were any cases of incest after the babies grew up. Maybe this inspired Roman Polanski in the movie “Chinatown”

          2. I sometimes think we are living in the time of Nineveh right before Jonah arrives with God’s message.

    2. I watched a cabinet secretary who I believed was being blackmailed by Andrew Cuomo or someone helping him get an illegal HUD grant over the Franklin Coverup. Exposure for pedophilia brings on a fear that is greater than the fear of death.

      1. Do you see any focus and coherence within western leadership today? One can whisk it away as 5D chess all day long, but all I see is a decoupling of reality (derealisation / depersonalization) on a scale never seen before. In a sane society all those leaders would be in a mental illness institution not running countries.

        1. Michael Yon put me on to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_king – that is clearly in the mix. That is why you need to envision a way to understand that your governance comes from God and the Archangels and the world is full of great leaders who can inspire you. They are for the most part not in high level political roles.

          The political leadership is doing what they are told. Some are trying to do the right thing, but they often struggle inside the constraints of the financial, legal and political constraints of a highly centralized system and the media can easily add enormous stress or make them look ridiculous. And they have to make unacceptable compromises to stay in.

          Not to mention the deep denial required to keep the official narrative going – enormous waste of energy. It does make people crazy. But then you have to be troubled and or lost to be willing to do those jobs in the first place.

          This is a war – keeping an eye on the enemy is essential for risk management – otherwise, find others like yourself who are leading, live in that field and keep building forward while taking time to fill up your joy bucket.

          1. Agree that governance comes from God and the Archangels. Daily prayers help greatly in keeping enjoying my live. Sometimes I do bump into a neferious casted shadow that is getting smaller and smaller with passing time.

  2. Catherine, look what came in my mail box today. A hard copy of Solari Report “Loving Art” issue. What a gift for these crazy times. “Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money” Ernst Levy.
    Yes, Art feeds the soul.

    Catherine, have you notice the cottage industry of sport trading cards becoming more popular? Recently out of curiously I attended a card show in Bartlett, TN. It was like walking into a bee hive of activity with sellers and buyers of sports cards. There were even a few Pokemon card vendors. I spoke to a few vendors on when did the interest in sports cards become more popular and it seems during covid it increased a great deal and the prices of cards escalated as Wall Street traders got involved turning it from a hobby to a physical asset business.
    The baseball cards I have and not seen the sunlight for over 50 years are from the 1950’s. Maybe I am sitting on a small fortune.

    On ebay there is a pristine (picture is centered, perfect corners) Fleer rookie card of Jack Kemp for over $2,000. An Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews autograph 8 X 10 photo is probably going for $300 plus.

    So Catherine, I got to ask, “did you collect baseball cards”? Maybe some Phillies players?

    Prayer is good, prayer with repentance is better, prayer with repentance and fasting is best.

    1. Once upon a time. Lots of Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. I am sure they are long gone.

      1. What, no Robin Roberts or Richie Ashburn? When I moved from L.A. to West TN 30 years ago I spent about 3 years doing research on what happened to the very good players that didn’t make the Hall of Fame, including Negro League Players. It gave me an opportunity to travel to small towns to document their resting sites and to interact with the small local communties as I correspond with those who had access to public records before I drove to the area. A great deal of the research I shared with Cooperstown which got me an invite to visit the behind the scenes in their library. It was fascinating. The library had a very large room that was kept at a low temperature filled from floor to ceiling with files of many thousands of pictures taken over many decades. The Negro League players were difficult to research as many were security guards, janitors, or bartenders after their playing days.

  3. I wish to remind you that Ashli Babbitt (Jan. 6, 2021) was unarmed and several police officers were present when she was shot to death by a Capitol police officer. The Biden Administration was very slow in allowing any investigation. Cellphone video was later released showing Ashli bleed out and die without any assistance from the officers around her. The officer who shot and killed her did not face any prosecution. Please provide a more detailed review of the Babbitt case with similarities and differences to the Nicole Good shooting by a ICE agent. Good had control of a vehicle that could be seen as deadly force. Babbitt did not appear to be capable of deadly force as she crawled through a window. The media labeled Babbitt an insurrectionist so it is not surprising to read that Nicole Good was considered a terrorist by ICE.

    1. Yes, plenty of shootings before this year. When I was growing up in West Philadelphia, a 7 year old child was shot in the back. Nothing happened to the policeman. This has been going on for a long, long, long time. Both real and theater. If you have not read dillonreadandco.com, recommended. The deaths include my mother https://solari.com/meditations-at-the-crossroads/ Hence, I understand the frustration of watching people in power get away with murder again and again and use it to justify more murder.

      The reason I chose Cover Up as documentary of the year it shows how the imposition of quotas during the Viet Nam war resulted in the killing of innocent civilians. This is a known tactic. The fact that it has been going on for a long time does not justify its use now. Just like the criminal lawfare done to Trump does not justify his doing it, particularly in a way that hurts the US standing in the world and his colleagues in the polls. Its a lose -lose. Looks to me like he is betting on martial law and invoking the insurrection act to control or stop the November elections. Bad plan.

      1. During Vietnam conflict it was a known practice to double the number of bodies as the official number.

  4. Rarely do I watch regular tv. But, recently I watched a 2026 episode of First 48 in North Charleston SC. An officer mentioned some AI database I had never heard of to search facial recognition of a suspect. He mentioned the software was the best thing the department ever had to find suspects and solve cases.

    The database software company is Verkada. The Founders all have Silicon Valley tech startup “success” and 75% went to Stanford…tech bros we’ve never heard of. Not sure who the money behind them is.

    https://www.verkada.com/about/

    https://www.firstround.com/companies/verkada

    https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/exclusive-verkadas-200-million-series-e-values-the-company-at-4-5-billion/

  5. Deconstructing professional protestors encounters with police (of any form) with negative consequences that could have been avoided, just isn’t that interesting to me. A lot of these “protests” are not organic and Saul David Alinsky would be pleased to see “nothing go to waste.” Apparently, a percentage of the population is easily radicalized to protest or obstruct of justice for any cause celebre. If you are told to leave or directed just do so, do not argue, leave. If you end up taking the long way around to get to doctor’s appointment so be it. This was completely avoidable if Good’s wife Rebecca had not goaded her into being a protestor and then egged her on (video below). Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness, avoid crowds, reduce travel into these unstable zones, don’t spend any time appreciable time in public spaces in these unstable zones, and remember the best defense is to not be there.

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-goods-sobbing-wife-who-claimed-minneapolis-ice-shooting-was-my-fault-revealed/

    1. Are they radicalized or are they ingesting neurowarfare or are they simply being paid to do a job. My vote is many are paid.

  6. What is REALLY going on that we are not being informed about? The ENTIRE southern, southeast, and eastern coast are ALL talking about the weather. Yes, it’s a big deal, but I’m suspicious of this narrative…. anyone else feel this way?

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