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Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011.

By Seth Lubove

Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summe…

By Margaret Chadbourn

The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC BB:FNMA.OB – News) and Freddie Mac…

By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas

Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily

CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bomb…

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which will be revealed…

An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa B…

[Note from CAF: This post was originally published here in February of 2009.
In light of recent events, I am republishing.]

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the fall of 2001 I attended a private…

By Nils Pratley

The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if the economic data gets any worse

It’s at this point that in…

By Danny Mayer

One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state. Could this spread?

On July 1, JP Morgan Chase became the C…

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The Group of Seven central bankers pose for a group photo in front of the U.S. Treasury in Washington

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Group of Seven nations sought to head off a collapse in investor confidence aft…

By Dan Freed

New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut the growing U.S. deficit.

The Joint Select…

By Tyler Durden

While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic is about as ugly as the US, so where could $8 trillion in marketabl…

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America and a group of investors, claiming in…

By John Detrixhe

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending …

“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating.

* “We have also removed both the short- and lon…

By David Lawder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans ma…

By: David Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Equitas Capital Advisors LLC

The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we crea…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested.

There are numerous unanswered questions about why.

Nea…

Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an …

By David Woolley

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and l…

By Sam Smith

Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a majority of its citizens over many years. This is not just a fight over …

By Bruce Levine

Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona. After two days in Tucson, I headed east and north to Santa F…

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning

Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a compromise sealed with President Bara…

By Jenna Wortham

When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding one or two, she found 30.

Ms. Marion, …

By Brad Plumer and Aaron Blake

As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one last trump card at his disposal: ignoring the d…

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Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for the lost revenue.

So what can a n…

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million in sma…

In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at heart in navigating today’s job market.

Cath…

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Special Solari Report: The Student Loan Scam
(11 July 11)

By Ross Kerber

A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be rattled by potential downgrades of…

By Ryan Grim

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Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to addres…

By Senator Bernie Sanders

The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out Amer…

By Sam Smith

Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider:

•    Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent)
•    Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent)
•    Taiwan:…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts on Financial Survival Radio, a fascinating 2-part interview.

In this installment of our discussion, Catherine explores whether we are going through an e…

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Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduc…

Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the following sta…

Paul Levy’s Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity

From the Foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts:

“My search to understand evil and its transformation is what attracted me to P…

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Documentary about how the military and the wireless industry influenced the cell phone radiation standards. Featured in this documentary are interviews with Dr. Michael Repacholi, who prior to becomin…

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Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s art …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list o…

Crowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, atten…

By Gloria Vogel

Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing directo…

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President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agre…

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By David Icke

I am always being asked the question: ‘What can we do?’ Well, this weekend I am launching something with fantastic potential that we can do together without even necessarily movin…

By Motoko Rich

Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in the usual …