The IRS has added twenty more questions to their FAQs in connection with the FBAR filings, including instructions for taxpayers who only recently learned of the FBAR filing obligation and guidance on …
Continue Reading Romancing the Road
As state and local governments seek greater revenues to balance their budget, they create new rules, taxes, fees and laws that further destroy economic activity. Thanks to Matt Savinar of Lifeafterthe…
By Mark Lundeen
The NYSE published weekly Margin Debt (NYSE MD) numbers from the 1920s to 1965. Starting in 1966, they switched to a monthly basis. The change in data is clearly evident in the BEV …
Find information about HR 2749, including a petition and frequently asked questions.
“A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress—HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The…
China Moves to Cut Reliance on Dollar
Financial Times (03 July 09)
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Keep an Eye on Russia’s Imploding Banks
Telegraph.co.uk (02 July 09)
Sweden Cuts Rates to R…
India Gold Dealers Tap Domestic Stocks
Financial Times (29 June 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.]
Mint’s $15.3 M Golden Dilemma: Was There a Heist?
Ottawa Citizen (29 June 09)
Mr. Sunshine? Ron Paul Wins Support to Audit Fed Reserve
Fox News (30 June 09)
Eva Golinger on Honduras Coup
Chavez Code ((01 July 09)
Obama Creates a Deadly Power Vacuum
Asia Times (30 June 09)
De…
‘Coal-eating’ Bugs May Solve Energy Crisis
Time Online (28 June 09)
The Cost Conundrum
The New Yorker (01 June 09)
Swine Flu Multiple-Shot Vaccine May Overwhelm States (Update3)
Bloomberg.com (2…
Photo: Russell Lee
I keep receiving reports that banks are cutting lines and refusing to loan to healthy businesses. There are more reports of profitable car dealerships that had the plug pulled in …
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report next Thursday, July 2, 2009.
Catherine will be presentin…
By McLaren and Torchinsky
The Sam’s Club in Salisbury, Maryland, is promoting its pharmacy by handing out pill bottles filled with candy to kids. I guess that’s better than filling Dots boxes with …
By Chris Giles
Strains in pensions systems, in both private and public provision, threaten to turn the financial crisis of the past two years into a social crisis lasting for decades, the Organisat…
By Craig Karmin and Liz Rappaport
Harvard’s endowment, scalded in the financial crisis, is shying from some riskier bets even as markets had been improving—and losing talent in the process.
Marc S…
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Can you imagine Harvard resisting the temptation to profit from creating distressed communities and assets and then trading them? That would call fo…
I published Solari & the Rise of the Rule of Law in 2002. I thought it might be appropriate to republish one of the sections on the blog. Our consciousness is shifting. I sense that more people wo…
Three surprise guests made their way through the “Secret Door” to speak with George Noory.
Third and…last through the secret door was investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. The bailout has cr…
California State Budget Crisis Not Caused by the Recession
by Peter Phillips
The budget crisis in California has been artificially created by cutting taxes on the wealthiest people and corporations….
By Edgar Ortega
NYSE Euronext (See 1) and (See 2) handled $38.05 trillion in stock trades across seven equity markets last year under CEO Duncan Niederauer, a 49-year-old former Goldman Sachs Grou…
By Scott Lanman
Bernanke, whose term expires Jan. 31, faces lawmakers at a hearing this week on steps to aid Bank of America Corp.’s takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. as Congress increasingly…
The recent international banking incident between the US government and Swiss banking authorities in which Treasury demanded private account information about holdings of US citizens in Swiss bank a…
by John Rubino
Facts have a different feel when they’re personal. And speaking personally, evidence that Americans are seriously spooked is starting to pile up. In the past few months:
• I che…
By: Paul Sutherland
NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in …
We are bearish on the renminbi. On the other hand, we are also bearish on the US dollar, euro, pound, Swiss franc, and Zimbabwean dollar. We hate them all, with appropriate analytical nuances. Show us…
Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama’s government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year’s sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds…
Amidst global economic recession and financial-market fragility, net private capital inflows to developing countries fell to 707 billion US dollars in 2008, a sharp drop from a peak of 1.2 trillion in…
The discussion and debate about the $134.5 billion bonds seized by the Italian government continues. We thought we would put all the links in one post.
Discrepancies in America’s Accounts Hide a …
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris “Mother”…
Thomas Geissler of TG Gold-Super-Markt
By Richard Evans and Harry Wallop
Holidaymakers passing through Britain’s airports could soon have the chance to buy a block of gold from a vending machine, r…
The heart is the master and the head is the servant. That is always the case, except when it isn’t the case we are in deep, deep trouble.
– William Gibson
By Scott Rasmussen
Republicans by nearly three-to-one say global warming is caused by planetary trends, while Democrats believe human activity is to blame by the same margin. Voters not affiliated w…
Goldman Sachs: Great American Bubble Machine
Zero Hedge (24 June 09)
House Committee Approves Bill Restricting 401(k) Advice to Indie Advisers
Investment News (26 June 09)
The Bloodless Coup of the…
Gold Prepares For The Big One
KITCO (25 June 09)
Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion 2
Zealllc.com (19 June 09)
S&P Downgrades Prime Jumbo Mortgage Securities
Market Watch (23 June 09)
The Age-Based Discrimination Continues
Bank Free Investing (23 June 09)
Congress Considers Referendum on Puerto Rico’s Political Status
Truthout (23 June 09)
9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero Goes Public
Voltairenet.org (22 June 09)
Thailand’s Train Services Cease …
Google Slammed as China And U.S. Quarrel Over Internet
Reuters.uk (26 June 09)
GPS Satellite Glitches Fuel Concern on Next Generation
The Wall Street Journal (17 June 09)
9 Dead, More Remain In Hospital After Metro Trains Collide
WUSA 9.com (23 June 09)
‘Wealth Creation’ And The New Salish
Half Past Human (June 2009)
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
The New York Times (22 June 09)
Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price After Slump (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (22 June 09)
Map 2-1 United States Annual Average W…
There’s only ONE shot that’s in perfect harmony with the field… One shot that’s his authentic shot, and that shot is gonna choose him… There’s a perfect shot out there tryin’ to find each and ever…
by Rick Rozoff
Since the beginning of the year the United States and NATO have repeatedly indicated in both word and deed their intention to lay claim to and extend their military presence in what …
Fault Lines – California: Failed State – 11 June 09 – Part 1
Fault Lines – California: Failed State – 11 June 09 – Part 2
View Shock Doctrine California, Parts I & II
“In my experience as a reporter, disease/epidemic news is the easiest way to provoke fear in the population. People just line up and swallow all the nonsense. They stop thinking. They obey. Even when …
By Barry Eichengreen & Kevin H. O’Rourke
Voxeu.org
“This is an update of the authors’ 6 April 2009 column comparing today’s global crisis to the Great Depression. World industrial production, tra…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
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I was speaking with an energetic healer this week and mentioned that …
“In a digital age, data about money is worth more than money.”
~ Nicholas Negroponte
LINKS TO FINANCIAL DATA IN CALIFORNIA
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Grants and Contracts
http://www.eagleeyeinc.com/USMa…
Obama Initiative Seeks Fix To Finance Regulations
Yahoo Finance (17 Jun 09)
Obama Bank Revamp May Stall as Competing Issues Mount
Bloomberg.com (15 Jun 09)
FACTBOX – Obama Plan to Tighten Financial …
Background Information
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power w…
Photo By: Joel Black
Dr. Sam Chachoua is a talented physician who had to leave the United States for reasons of safety and to protect his vaccines and knowledge. Here is a video from the late 1990’…
Photo: PA
By Andrew Alderson
For the first time since the Second World War vegetables are being grown in the Palace’s grounds alongside ornamental plants.
The move comes amid a surge in demand fro…
Mafia Blamed For $134bn Fake Treasury Bills
Financial Times (18 June 09)
The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders, Why Deflation and not Inflation is the Order of the Day
Global Research.ca (18 June 09)
Ch…
Wayne Gretzky once said, when asked the secret of his success at ice hockey, “I skate to where the puck will be.”
It is for the same reason I keep bringing up the issue of money missing from the US…
By: Hub Pages
[Catherine’s Note: I originally published this piece in 2007. Because of the California and other state and local fiscal challenges, I thought I would republish]
In the early 19th cen…
Recently, I have been getting questions about how I first learned about my home Hickory Valley, Tennessee.
In 1978, after graduating from business school, I decided to ride a bicycle across the cou…
Brass Check TV
Obama Administration Pushes IMF Gold Sales Through House by Tieing it to Security Bill
MineWeb (19 June 09)
Germans Flock to Gold Bars Vending Machine at Frankfurt Airport
Times on Line (17 June 09)
…
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Top 300,000 as Bank Seizures Loom
Bloomberg.com (14 June 09)
Judge Upholds Three-word Foreclosure Strategy
ABC.7 (29 May 09)
Glenn Beck: The Letter
Glenn Beck.com (19 June 09)
De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire
Global Research.ca (13 June 09)
Secret Papers ‘Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria …
Flotsam & Jetsam: End of an Affair
Undernews (17 June 09)
Sky ‘Rains Tadpoles’ Over Japan
Telegraph.co.uk (10 June 09)
Brazil Invests 7.6 billion USD in Family Farming
MercoPress (18 June 09)
Submit Comments to USDA Against GE Trees
Global Justice Ecology.org (June 2009)
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Product…
The Bush Doctrine, Economic Warfare and Your Investment Portfolio
By Rob Kirby
In a military sense, we are all familiar with and can visibly recognize the physical manifestations of the implementa…
By: Jean-LeonGerome
For a long time, I have believed that community prayer can play an important role in transforming communities. That said, I don’t know much about community prayer and would lov…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
The participatory budgeting networks are abuzz with excitement about the participatory budgeting effort being introduced in the 49th Ward of Chicago.
The Watson Institute for In…
By: Kurt Nimmo
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207, has reached and surpassed the level of 218 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, which means…
Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
By Jeffrey M. Smith
On May 19th, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical comm…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 11, 2009.
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This is the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to …
By: Valuation Review
A new announcement from Fannie Mae calls for all appraisal data to be submitted electronically beginning March 2010. Uh oh, there goes the paper trial!
Lenders Can Deliver Electr…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
See Financial Ecosystems, Parts III
One of the reasons to map your financial ecosystems, is because it is best to understand existing resources and what has been happening to th…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
I thought I would create a space where readers could post links or other information on governmental resources related to Chicago’s 49th Ward. Here are links related to park hold…
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
– Proverbs 22: 24-25
In Hohenwald, Tennessee
What you will learn:
Tour different forest ecoregions in Tennessee; Learn about:
Principles of bioregion repair to restore water and soil sheds for productivity (water sto…
By: MercoPress
In 2008, the world total military expenditure was an estimated 1.464 trillion US dollars, accounting for an increase of 4% in real terms compared to 2007, and an increase of 45% since…
Vatican Study Endorses GMOs for Food Security
Analysis: The academy aimed less to conduct an objective appraisal than to mobilize public support
By John L. Allen, Jr
In what seemed largely a forego…
Palmer pigweed in a Southern cotton field.
By Clea Caulcutt
The gospel of high-tech genetically modified (GM) crops is not sounding quite so sweet in the land of the converted. A new pest, the ev…
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Fell Another 2.2 Percent in April
American Trucking Association (26 May 09)
Association of American Railroads – Weekly Traffic Report
“Lower electricity demand and higher co…
Chrysler Asset Deal Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court
Bloomberg.com (8 Jun 09)
U.S. Says TARP Issue Out of Court’s Reach
Scotusblog.com (8 Jun 09)
Reference: Fiat Board of Directors / Wikipedia on Fiat…
By Dena Aubin and John Parry – Analysis
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Is Campbell’s Soup a better bet than U.S. government debt?
No, we’re not talking about stocking a bunker for survival. This is talk ab…
Photo By: Merrick Davies
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[I get fascinating feedback. Here is an example. Worth thinking about the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and whether the oil price manipulations were part of an intentional hit. Cui Bono? Who benefits…
Photo: Douglas Jackson of E-Gold
By Kim Zetter
Jackson, 51, is the maverick founder of E-Gold, the first-of-its-kind digital currency that was once used by millions of people in more than a hundred…
Photo by: Media Gallery
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on April 28, 2009, on the question of whether state officials are barred by the National Bank Act and regulations of the Office of the…
My good friend Jason Eaton wants a new logo for his website Social Thread. So he is having a design competition. It is an interesting way to get a new logo!
Mark Lundeen has just published week 86 in his “Bear Market Race to the Bottom Series.”
View the series to date at Gold Speculator—weeks 69 through 86.
by Dennis Cauchon
Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance and health care, accounted for 16.2% of personal income in the first quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic A…
Photo By: Wall Street Geek
By Marcy Gordon and Greg Risling
Angelo Mozilo, the man who rode the housing boom to build Countrywide Financial Corp. into a California colossus of high-risk mortgage le…
By David Weidner
The reality of shareholder enfranchisement is harsh and depressing, a testament to the intractability of the system and the apathy of participants. In America’s corporate proxy conte…
Alas, the official statistics grow ever more suspect. Here are some comments on the real unemployment numbers.
May Employment Report Not Believable
Temp Work Helps Mask Joblessness Among Americans
…
US Treasury Names Asset Managers and Launches Legacy Securities Program: is one-half of the Public Private Investment Program (PPIP) meant to help US financial institutions cleanse their balance shee…
The Real Price of Gold
National Geographic.com (May 2009)
FBI Arrests Bernard, Kevin, Sarah & Rachelle
Liberty Dollar (June 2009)
Four Defendants Indicted in Unlawful Coin Operation
Charlotte.fbi.g…
U.S. Regulator Sounds Alarm About Reverse Mortgages
Reuters (08 June 09)
U.N. Imposes Tough New Sanctions On N. Korea
CBS 11tv.com (12 June 09)
New Arms Treaty Must Exclude Weapons in Space – Russian General
Mlitary News (10 June 09)
It’s Time For a Second American Revo…
Low Cost Gas Engine Innovation Doubles Fuel Economy
Gas2.org (26 June 08)
The Dark Side of Dubai
The Independent (07 April 09)
The Light of Darkness
Awaken in The Dream.com (By: Paul Levy)
Vancouver, Canada Chosen as The Most Liveable City in The World
MercoPress (09 June…
Coca Cola Zero Banned in Venezuela
Scoop.co.nz (12 June 09)
The Sun, Not AGW, Is The Thing
Oblate Spheroid (08 June 09)
Chemtrails – Barium
Identification Further Confirmed
Rense.com (02 Dec 00)
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As discussed in last night’s Solari Report, the top story of the week is the abrogation of the social contract in America. Bernake alluded to it in his testimony this week, saying:
“The fun…
By Peter Zeihan
The global recession is the biggest development in the global system in the year to date. In the United States, it has become almost dogma that the recession is the worst since the …
Artist: Antoine Ausustine Preault
“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”
— Jewish Proverb
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In 2004, when I wrote “Where Would Jesus Bank,” I started getting a steady flow of question…
Below are the top 20 financial institutions by market capitalization in 1999 and then in 2009.
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