Money & Markets Report: October 16, 2025

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October 16, 2025

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October 16, 2025

Money & Markets

Full Speed Behind

In this episode of Money & Markets, Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus discuss the turbulent economic landscape amidst tariff wars and gold price surges. They delve into the inefficacy of current policies, the rising costs of goods, and the story of Ford’s CEO realizing how far American auto manufacturing has fallen behind China.

As Trump’s approval ratings drop, they examine the DOJ’s controversial Leticia James indictment and the significant fallout of recent federal actions.

They also explore the global political and economic dynamics, including the impact of Chinese tariffs on rare earth minerals and the implications for the U.S. defense sector. Additionally, the episode covers local opposition to data centers, legislative efforts to block programmable money, and the growing sentiment against Israel amid its conflicts.

Key details about the state of the U.S. auto industry, rising security concerns, and practical advice on adapting to the changing economic environment are thoroughly discussed.


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78 Comments

    1. It seems the doctors and nurses no are just ignoring vaccine recommendations now. I have been for just some trivial things the last year or so and no one brings Covid shots up even though I see on the doctors computer that it says they should give me one. Same with taking my elderly mother. I can see in the computer chart that the computer lists “needing” to give my mother a jab but the doctors and nurses ignore. That has been one of the more hopeful things.

      1. Same here. It’s on my offical medical record of tetanus injury 1999. My husband and I have the same primary care doctor. At 82, he has many medical issues. I had to have major surgery 2022. None of my doctors brought up the covid toxins nor my husband’s many doctors. Catherine gave excellent advice on how to navigate the medical system with discernment. Working so far.

  1. I just received an e-mail inviting me to this live-stream event “Our Plan to Stop Digital ID”.
    This is what the e-mail said:

    “Glenn and I will be talking about how you can encourage real local change, and how you can REFUSE digital ID.
    The class will go live this Friday at 11am CT (12pm ET / 10am MT / 9am PT).
    I hope you join us. It will be very important.”

    I have no idea if it is serious or merely click-bait but it sounds intriguing so I’m posting the link in the hope that it’s the former. If it’s not, please accept my apologies.

    https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YpKkkpVevwKj

    1. The link you gave is correct – it starts tomorrow. The invitation you received is from Glenn Meder’s company – ‘Privacy Academy’. They told me that they broadcast every Friday at 11am CT on Rumble.com, but they are now also on X. The program is recorded, so you can watch it later on X.

    2. Andrew, the link does not talk about the class. I would like to hear what they have to say. An organization I belong to will be talking about Digital IDs in our October. meeting.

      I have used Glenn Meder’s services for privacy communications and he recently had a talk about getting AI software out of your computer. I was going to buy the package to do this. I saw him talk about it in a presentation sent by Dr Lee Merritt and later by G. Edward Griffin. Eric is the name of his son.

      I will email Glenn and post what he tells me.

  2. Hi Catherine,

    I am seeing a push from social media to purchase gold. Same intensity as the Kirk event.

    Is there a plan to do a pump & dump with gold ?

    Jane Antonovich

    1. Yes I was hoping the gold & silver markets would be addressed somewhere . If they did, timestamp please?

      1. Angela,

        It looks like it was a pump and dump or maybe call it a correction. Gold Spot was up over $4200.00 last thursday. As of this morning it is down to $4,088.70.

        I knew something was up when social media started pushing people to purchase gold with intensity in the last couple of weeks.

        I found this podcast with Catherine and Greg Hunter from 3 days ago speaking about gold.

        https://rumble.com/v70hp8a-gold-fights-financial-control-grid-catherine-austin-fitts.html

  3. Greatly appreciate the view on the ICE operation. The op certainly stirs the deep tribe vs. tribe emotions and takes me out of empathy. Glad to get some higher level clarity.

    1. The programming on this is pretty effective and very very different from what is happening.

  4. I’m guessing they use the word “intrusion”as the alleged crime because it could be interpreted as “intruder.”

  5. Hi Catherine,

    On your question about whether the failure of providing for domestic supply of rare earth and other strategic materials was deliberate with intent to weaken the US military, my conclusion is that the answer is yes.

    Isn’t the current state of dependance on others, particularly China, for critical materials a result of the plans to abandon US domestic industry that you’ve previously stated began in the mid-80s, driven by elites?

    Here’s a quick list of items that come to mind as potentially deliberate steps to weaken the US military in the past 25 years including examples from all services.

    The decades long Global War on Terror itself and its effect on the readiness of the forces for other missions – wear and tear on both people and equipment, drainage of stocks of ordnance without adequate replenishment.

    Decline of the Navy, both fleet readiness as well as repair and refit capacity in the US. Notable decline in standards of seamanship simultaneously.

    Failure to apply the lessons learned at great cost in the past on the F111 program ( “Swiss Army” aircraft to fulfill multiple roles are a very bad and costly idea) when developing the F35.

    Politicization of upper ranks in a manner very damaging to effectiveness which had an inflection toward the much worse during the Obama administration purges.

    The intensity of the effort to jab all of the troops during Covid.

    The shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    Hanlon’s Razor is a thing, yet taken together these manifold efforts to weaken had to be deliberate in my view.

    Turning to the subject of rare earth/critical minerals markets, those running the action starting in the mid-80s had to know how China plays commercially. Rare earth processing was a high priority on China’s industrial policy pathway, received the normal extensive government support, much patient capital, etc. Which, of course, led to overbuilding capacity. The Chinese are commercially predatory to crush competition in sectors important to their industrial policy and this was no exception.

    The issues of critical mineral supply have been well known in defense circles for many years now. The fact that nothing more substantive has been done to assure sufficient domestic supply was as deliberate as the series of items outlined above in the cause of promoting a weaker US defense capability.

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