People often ask whether I am concerned about inflation, deflation, peak oil, or a global financial meltdown. My answer is as follows.

The future is something to be created, rather than feared. Allocating our time, networks, and resources to deal with a variety of high-risk scenarios frees us to become proactive and to build positive futures instead of negative ones. I like to understand what these scenarios mean in terms of managing risk and to know how we can succeed within all possible futures.

But my business is investment, not prophecy.

The risk scenario I weight most heavily is not listed above. I call it the “Slow Burn.”

The “slow burn” is a political culture and economy managed through principles of economic warfare in which insiders systematically protect themselves and centralize control and ownership of resources by using:

  • Central banks
  • Currency and lending systems
  • Taxation
  • Regulatory and enforcement policies
  • Controlled media and entertainment

Insiders use these means to drain the time, resources, and life of people on the outside. Although insider cartels compete and jockey for power, they are able to settle their squabbles by increasing control and draining everyone and everything else. This is why the bubble economy continues to deplete the real economy. It is likely the reason why Dick Cheney said, “Deficits don’t matter.”

In a slow burn scenario, it is possible to prop up trillions of dollars in financial asset values by systematically arranging subsidies that ultimately liquidate life. This is what “managing” markets really means: de-populating people and places to maintain phony values created and necessitated by derivative bets.

The reason why it is difficult for sophisticated financial people to discern that a slow burn is taking place is because we have not yet collectively mastered the operational detail of how it is implemented. This is an extremely important subject.

One of the most important aspects of the Paulson Plan to re-engineer US financial regulation is the assertion of complete control of payment systems by the Federal Reserve and gaining access to the data of essentially any financial institution. Combined with 1) the ability to print money and 2) digital communication payment and surveillance technology (satellite), this will consolidate greater power into fewer hands than at any time in recorded history.

As Nicholas Negroponte said, “In a digital age, data about money is worth more than money.”

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  1. Brilliant. This lady is right onto it. Particularly liked the “English” translation of the G-20 summit position. I thought they’d propose defaulting to the Euro there, with the IMF to take over as a world central bank after the next crisis meeting in a few months ( why America is being brought to its knees….the dollar will be crashed and hyperinflated ). I was wrong – too early ?
    We are also in a bad way in New Zealand and watching your struggle there. The USA will be hit hardest, now, but the aim is world control – consolidated by an ongoing phony War on Terror.

  2. Catherine Austin Fitts is a sociopolitical & economics supernova brewing to explode in many cost beneficial & meaningful ways. But in order to get a full understaning of what is globally taking place one must revisit now just about forgotten “The Club of Rome” & diligently study all policies that came out of this sociopolitical club.

    Take for example: “Codex Alimentarious” – it has been on the books since 1960s, the money to put it together has been spent. Here is the link to video that may expand the reader’s or rederess’ horizon on what is really going on.

    This is example on how I did the search for “Codex Alimentarious” – anybody with Internet can do it.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=google+video+codex+alimentarious

    Here is the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634

    There are more from the provided one – this will get one going.

    What is Mathematically Perfected Economy?

    For Example:

    While 12,000 homes a day continue to go into foreclosure, mathematically perfected economy™ would re-finance a $100,000 home with a hundred-year lifespan at the overall rate of $1,000 per year or $83.33 per month. Without costing us anything, we would immediately become as much as 12 times as liquid on present revenue. Transitioning to MPE™ would apply all payments already made against existent debt toward principal. Many of us would be debt free. There would be no housing crisis, no credit crisis. Unlimited funding would immediately be available to sustain all the industry we are capable of.

    There is no other solution. Regulation can only temper an inherently terminal process.

    If you/ one / we/ are not promoting mathematically perfected economy™, then we commit us to monetary failure.

    P.S.
    Meltdown 101: How is the CPI calculated, and why?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903200.html

    By ELLEN SIMON
    The Associated Press
    Wednesday, November 19, 2008; 5:14 PM

    NEW YORK — The Consumer Price Index, the nation’s best-known inflation gauge, plunged in October thanks to a record drop in gasoline prices.

    But if prices still seem high to you, you’re right.

    Blaiming everyting else but not the true cause such as exponentially compounding usery/interests.

    Note:
    The Governments must free themselves from the opression of central banking – one & two – money/currency must be neutral issued debt free by the governments. The we will have real competition for customers not like we have today creating laws to do business.

    Those are the two pillars of MPE
    ms

  3. Catherine Austin Fitts is a sociopolitical & economics supernova brewing to explode in many cost beneficial & meaningful ways. But in order to get a full understaning of what is globally taking place one must revisit now just about forgotten “The Club of Rome” & diligently study all policies that came out of this sociopolitical club.

    Take for example: “Codex Alimentarious” – it has been on the books since 1960s, the money to put it together has been spent. Here is the link to video that may expand the reader’s or rederess’ horizon on what is really going on.

    This is example on how I did the search for “Codex Alimentarious” – anybody with Internet can do it.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=google video codex alimentarious

    Here is the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634

    There are more from the provided one – this will get one going.

    What is Mathematically Perfected Economy?

    For Example:

    While 12,000 homes a day continue to go into foreclosure, mathematically perfected economy™ would re-finance a $100,000 home with a hundred-year lifespan at the overall rate of $1,000 per year or $83.33 per month. Without costing us anything, we would immediately become as much as 12 times as liquid on present revenue. Transitioning to MPE™ would apply all payments already made against existent debt toward principal. Many of us would be debt free. There would be no housing crisis, no credit crisis. Unlimited funding would immediately be available to sustain all the industry we are capable of.

    There is no other solution. Regulation can only temper an inherently terminal process.

    If you/ one / we/ are not promoting mathematically perfected economy™, then we commit us to monetary failure.

    P.S.
    Meltdown 101: How is the CPI calculated, and why?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903200.html

    By ELLEN SIMON
    The Associated Press
    Wednesday, November 19, 2008; 5:14 PM

    NEW YORK — The Consumer Price Index, the nation’s best-known inflation gauge, plunged in October thanks to a record drop in gasoline prices.

    But if prices still seem high to you, you’re right.

    Blaiming everyting else but not the true cause such as exponentially compounding usery/interests.

    Note:
    The Governments must free themselves from the opression of central banking – one & two – money/currency must be neutral issued debt free by the governments. The we will have real competition for customers not like we have today creating laws to do business.

    Those are the two pillars of MPE
    ms

  4. Kudos to you, Catherine! But is it not part of the fault of the masses who for example – shop Wal Mart in favor of killing mom & pops nationwide? If we abandon college in favor of learning self sufficiency and building our own homes- that is great! But I have a broken body and age against me. I still wish I could strike out in some small town and not be upside down.

    Could the rednecks have been right? BUY AMERICAN! Now all those smart economists don’t look so smart. The ol’ rednecks seem to have a message closer to yours. In those economics classes they never figured in container costs when I calculated gains in trade, so I knew there was a real world diconnect.

    I appreciate what you are saying, I just am unemployed, and scared, and wonder how long I can last.

  5. Kudos to you, Catherine! But is it not part of the fault of the masses who for example – shop Wal Mart in favor of killing mom & pops nationwide? If we abandon college in favor of learning self sufficiency and building our own homes- that is great! But I have a broken body and age against me. I still wish I could strike out in some small town and not be upside down.

    Could the rednecks have been right? BUY AMERICAN! Now all those smart economists don’t look so smart. The ol’ rednecks seem to have a message closer to yours. In those economics classes they never figured in container costs when I calculated gains in trade, so I knew there was a real world diconnect.

    I appreciate what you are saying, I just am unemployed, and scared, and wonder how long I can last.

  6. David Icke started me on this particular road down the rabbit hole, now Catherine goes even deeper. Personally I protect myself by rereading Thoreau and the simplicity of life.

    Food, fuel, clothing, shelter.

    Live your life. All these suckers are going to die off anyway. So let them enjoy their fun and games. We can play them too, maybe even more deviously…and dangerously.

  7. David Icke started me on this particular road down the rabbit hole, now Catherine goes even deeper. Personally I protect myself by rereading Thoreau and the simplicity of life.

    Food, fuel, clothing, shelter.

    Live your life. All these suckers are going to die off anyway. So let them enjoy their fun and games. We can play them too, maybe even more deviously…and dangerously.

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