2018-Q4
Missing Money: A Personal History – 1989 to 2019
C. Austin Fitts, Assistant Housing Secretary, conferring with assistants during a break in her testimony before a Senate subcommittee, 1989. (The New York Times/Andrea Mohin) […]
Coming Clean Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
[CAF Note: We originally published this article in January 2013. I wrote it over the Christmas holidays in 2012 because it was obvious that, despite […]
Classification for Investors 101
Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Why Does Classification Matter to the Average Investor? A.1. Private Entity Reporting Exemptions A.2. Government Accounting Exemptions A.3. Government […]
Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to Do Due Diligence on U.S. Treasury and Related Securities
By Catherine Austin Fitts Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. ~ February 18, 2019 ~ “There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit […]
Should We Care about Secrecy in Financial Reporting?
Should We Care about Secrecy in Financial Reporting? Dr. Mark Skidmore* Catherine Austin Fitts** Published February 8, 2019 *Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics/Department […]
Lets Go to the Movies
Here is a chronological list of all the movies and documentaries we’ve reviewed on the Solari Report: 2018-12-13 Live Foods For Winning Energy Without Drugs […]
Official U.S. Debt Holders
Depending upon what news sources you read, you may have the impression that the vast majority of the official U.S. government debt is held by […]
National Security Exemptions and SEC Rule 10b-5
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. What Is SEC Rule 10b-5? III. The Elements of a Rule 10b-5 Claim a. Is the Government a “Person” […]
Solari Heros: The Missing Money A-Team
“Why is no one doing anything?” ~ What you say if you want Catherine Austin Fitts to rhetorically chop your head off Please meet the […]
Missing Money: A Personal History – 1989 to 2019
“Tell me a story. In this century and moment of madness, tell me a story.” ~ Robert Penn Warren By Catherine Austin Fitts [TO COME] […]
Contractors, Investors, and Dealers
The ten largest government contractors in 2017 were issued $50.7 billion in contract awards. These ten contractors had a combined 356 instances of misconduct since […]
Caveat Emptor
By Carolyn Betts, Esq and Catherine Austin Fitts [To Come]
The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” -James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United […]
FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. History of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) III. FASAB and Standard 56 A. What Does Standard 56 […]
The Black Budget: The Crossroads of (Un)Constitutional Appropriations and Reporting
The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape […]
The U.S. Statutes Creating Modern Constitutional Financial Management and Reporting Requirements and the Government’s Failure to Follow Them
“About 34 percent of the federal government’s reported total assets as of September 30, 2016, and approximately 18 percent of the federal government’s reported net […]
The Appropriations Clause: A History of the Constitution’s (As of Yet) Underused Clause
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts […]
Reports on “Unsupported Journal Voucher Adjustments” for DOD & HUD
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and […]