Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.17.13
Property Taxes Hoped to Curb China’s Real Estate Excesses
The New York Times | 20 November 2013
Housing prices in China’s major cities continue to soar, according to a report released by the Natio…
Total Healthcare “Enrollment” As A Result Of Obamacare: -3.9 Million
By Tyler Durden
“We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law,” could be President Obama’s understatement of the century. In the month-or-so since Obamacare was unleashed 106,185 people enrolled …
Pentland Firth Tidal Turbine Project Given Consent
By BBC News
Work is to begin on the largest tidal turbine energy project in Europe after the Scottish government approved it.
MeyGen is to install the tidal array in stages in the Pentland Firth, …
Geopolitical – Week of 11.17.13
Fuel Rod Removal: Fukushima’s Most Dangerous Operation Yields First Successes
RT | 21 November 2013
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have successfully removed the first nuclear fuel rods…
Science & Technology – Week of 11.17.13
How Tesla Found Itself on the Defense
USA Today | 21 November 2012
Being a media darling isn’t as easy as it looks…
Volcano Spawns New Japanese Island
RT | 21 November 2012
An undersea volcanic eru…
Food & Health – Week of 11.17.13
Obama Launches War Against Small Farms, Natural Fertilizers
Undernews | 18 November 2013
The deadline for submitting comments on two key rules the FDA…
Smog-Choked China Shifts Gears in Effort to R…
Life – Week of 11.17.13
Monty Python’s Reunion Show in July at London
ABC News | 21 November 2013
And now for something completely different: A comeback show from the Monty Python gang…
Man Behind Nazi Art Trove Refuses t…
Wild Cards – Week of 11.17.13
Tube Cloud Over Texas
YouTube | 10 November 2013
A long tubelike cloud stretched across the sky south of Amarillo, Texas…
Companies Want a Piece of the Moon
Photo Credit: Mark Garlick Words & Pictures Ltd/Science Photo Library/Corbis
By Irene Klotz
Corporations are interested in partnering with NASA for lunar and other deep-space initiatives, but will…
Frank “Sugarchile” Robinson – “Caldonia”
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Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders
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#Ask JPM
By Catherine Austin Fitts
JP Morgan Chase’s social media team offered folks a chance to tweet in questions to #AskJPM. The results were not what they expected. In fact, the response was so sincere, t…
Reporting for Hard-to-Value IRA Investments is Optional for 2014
**CAF Note: These changes could have a dramatic impact on the market for crowd funding and micro cap equities. If the IPO market continues to be strong, watch for significant growth in start ups and…
Spain’s Solar Police to Kick in Your Door
By Alex Dunham
As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar power, they now have to look forward to a knock…
Walking By Sees
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As a child I spent my summers in a farm high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Each summer, we were educated on Yankee farmer stories. These were stories about peop…
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
By Wikileaks
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest…
Americans 34 Times More Interested In Buying Guns Than Obamacare
By Tyler Durden
It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive – is capable of handling large volumes of use…
Quote du Jour – World War Z – Movement is Life
“Movimiento es vida — movement is life.” – Brad Pitt in World War Z
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“Movimiento es vida. – movement is life” – Brad Pitt in World War Z
Transcript of “Coming Clean, Dr. Joseph Farrell – Covert Wars & The Mysterious Strength of the US Dollar” is Now Available!
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Libor Scandal
By Wikipedia
The Libor scandal was a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and also the resulting investigation and reaction. The Libor is an average i…
Canadian Province Closes Debt Issue in HK
By By Chen Jia
Canada’s British Columbia province has completed its sale of yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong, the provincial government said on Tuesday.
The deal is the first issue by a foreign g…
Honoring Veterans
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” -Jose Narosky
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – On and Off Budget: 4th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
Challenge #4 On and Off Budget
By Catherine Austin Fitts
…
Amazon Taps Post Office For Sunday Deliveries; A Win-Win?
Photo Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP
By Mark Memmott
Much of the talk in recent years about how the U.S. Postal Service could stem has been about the things it might stop doing — most notably, delivering…
The Global Economy: The Perils of Falling Inflation
Photo Credit: David Parkins
By The Economist
What is a central banker’s main job? Ask the man on the street and the chances are he will say something like “keeping a lid on inflation”. In pop…
Brothers: The Hidden History of The Kennedy Years
From Brothers: The Hidden History of The Kennedy Years
Brothers is an epic story told from a uniquely personal perspective. Based on David Talbot’s best-selling book about Jack and Bobby Kennedy,…
Money & Markets – Week of 11.10.13
Citi Warns “Fed Is Kicking The Can Over The Edge Of A Cliff”
Zero Hedge | 14 November 2013
It is becoming increasingly obvious that we are seeing the disconnect between financial markets and the real …
IRS – Electronic Filing PIN Request
Planned Outage: November 9 — November 12, 2013
This service will be unavailable beginning approximately 4:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, November 9, 2013 until approximately 7:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Novem…
America Has More Prisoners Than High School Teachers
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Geopolitical – Week of 11.10.13
Germany Halts Purchase of Armed Drones
The Local | 14 November 2013
Members of the next German government have agreed to postpone the country’s purchase of armed drones indefinitely…
Why JFK’s De…
Science & Technology – Week of 11.10.13
Researchers Rewrite Entire Genome, Add Healthy Twist
Scientific Computing | 17 October 2013
Scientists from Yale and Harvard have recoded the entire genome of an organism…
Vast Antarctic Iceberg ‘…
Food & Health – Week of 11.10.13
I-522: Right to Know (PDF)
Cornucopia Institute
Washington State GMO Labeling Initiative…
Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security
Ponemon Institute | 06 December 2012
Third…
Floyd Cramer – “Vaya Con Dios”
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Transcript of “Halloween Special: Solari Zombie Report” is Now Available!
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Commodity Divergance
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The extraordinary divergence between the prices of commodities and equities this year can be seen in a chart of Starbucks. The lower the cost of goods becomes (in this cas…
CFTC Revives Plan to Limit Excessive Commodity Bets
By Douwe Miedema
The U.S. derivatives regulator on Tuesday reintroduced a plan to curb commodity market speculation, reviving a crucial Wall Street reform after a judge knocked down an earlier vers…
Christie’s Reelection
Photo Credit: Marco Grob/Trunk Archive
“Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of …
We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
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By Marvin Ammori
Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle f…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Operations: 3rd of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
Challenge #3 Operations
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A sign…
Breaking Through the Cloud Cover
Photo Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was reading a commentary this morning by a Swiss money manager whose opinion I respect. He commented that there was a widespread perception …
Money & Markets – Week of 11.03.13
The Non-U.S. Equity Index That’s Consistently Beaten Nasdaq, S&P 500 Over The Last 25 Years
Seeking Alpha | 08 November 2013
Setting aside the ‘active versus passive’ argument, major stock indices can…
Precious Metals – Week of 11.03.13
Guest Post: Finland’s Gold
Zero Hedge | 03 November 2013
On Wednesday Finland gave in to public pressure and revealed…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.03.13
I Bought an Apartment Just to Rent It Out on Airbnb
Gizmodo | 05 November 2013
In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb…
Geopolitical – Week of 11.03.13
China’s Inevitable Changes
Stratfor | 05 November 2013
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will convene its Third Plenum meeting Nov. 9…
Saudi Nuclear Weapons ‘On Order’ from Paki…
Science & Technology – Week of 11.03.13
Germany Reaches 59% Renewable Energy Peak, Power Grid Doesn’t Blow Up
The 9 Billion | 30 October 2013
Earlier this month on a very sunny and windy day…
Big Cable May Have Felled Seattle’s Mayor…
Food & Health – Week of 11.03.13
‘Artificial Egg’ Made from PLANTS Backed by Bill Gates Set to Revolutionize Cooking Goes on Sale at Whole Foods
Vegetarian Friend | 05 November 2013
A radical ‘artificial egg’ backed by Paypa…
Life – Week of 11.03.13
The Devolution of the Seas
Foreign Affairs | November 2013
Of all the threats looming over the planet today…
The Industrial Revolution You Haven’t Met
The Daily Bell | 07 November 2013
In textile f…
The Gluten Summit
By The Gluten Summit
The goal of The Gluten Summit is to shift the scientific discussion and clinical recognition of gluten-related disorders forward by five years. Meaning, we want the conversatio…
Michael Jackson – “Thriller”
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Halloween Special: Solari Zombie Report
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Enemy of the State
**CAF Note: This is one of my favorite movies ever since Tony Scott made it in 1998. Given the ongoing discussion of NSA surveillance, it is well worth watching**
UBS On The Importance Of 3D Printing
By Tyler Durden
Over a year ago we discussed the “next Industrial Revolution” and where it might appear from. 3D printers were envisioned among Goldman’s top disruptive themes earlier this year a…
Lavabit And Silent Circle Join Forces To Make All Email Surveillance-Proof
By Kashmir Hill
In recent months, Lavabit, based in Texas, and Silent Circle, based in Washington, D.C., both shuttered their encrypted email services. The companies said they couldn’t keep them …
Professor’s Quantum Teleportation Theory to be Tested on Space Station
By Phys.org
A theory—SuperDense quantum teleportation—posed by Hampshire College physics professor Herbert Bernstein will be tested on the International Space Station.
Theoretical physicist Bern…
Move of Rods at Fukushima
Photo Credit: European Pressphoto Agency
By Mari Iwata
Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday gave a green light to a plan by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to remove fuel rods stored in a pool at the u…
Homage to the Creative Spirit
By Paul Levy
The artist casts a liberating fragrance, spelling out what is hanging in the air. When a group of people abdicate their individual responsibility to be creative, a great artist like Vinc…
The Bitcoin Pump is on Again
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
The push is on for prototyping digital currencies to build out the Internet platform financial markets. The shills are back hawking …
Lunch in San Francisco
By Catherine Austin Fitts
After my speech at the Appraisal Institute on Tuesday am, we had a grand lunch with Solari Report subscribers at Kuleto’s in San Francisco. Subscribers came from Santa Cruz…
Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau.
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Spy With My Eye
Credit: Pat Bagley
**CAF Note: Jim Sinclair points out that this is not good for the dollar. YOU BET! If you look at the interests defending the dollar, however, they have the firepower to defend it…
Money Managers Favorite Charts
“Net Imports flatten for the next few years, even when nominal GDP is growing at 4% per annum… a nice boost in terms of trade for the U.S. economy. The U.S. oil boom not only has implications for …
“Coming Clean, Crowdfunding: What it Means to You” is Now Available!
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Legality: 2nd of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
Challenge #2 Legality
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A signif…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.27.13
Facebook Friends Could Change Your Credit Score
CNN | 27 August 2013
Choose your Facebook friends wisely; they could help you get approved — or rejected — for a loan…
Top Social Security Tax To R…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.27.13
Jim Sinclair: Dollar Gets Hammered and More
Youtube | 29 October 2013
**CAF Note: My view on gold differs. Jim’s information and views are always valuable**
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.27.13
Mortgage Bond Pioneer Backing Rental Bonds
CNBC | 28 October 2013
The man often referred to as the godfather of the mortgage-backed security said…
JPMorgan to Pay $5.1 Billion to Settle Mortgage Cl…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.27.13
U.S. Navy Cancels Notice on Possible F/A-18 Fighter Jet Order
Yahoo! Finance | 31 October 2013
The U.S. Navy on Thursday canceled a notice about a possible order of up to 36 more Boeing Co…
Food St…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.27.13
A Bathroom of One’s Own
In These Times | 30 October 2013
In a Kenyan slum, pocket privies offer women safety, autonomy and a way to make a living…
Chaos-On-a-Chip Model Shows Market Bubbles May b…
Food & Health – Week of 10.27.13
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare
Forbes | 31 October 2013
On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius…
Life – Week of 10.27.13
50 Ducks Walked Into A CVS… There’s No Punchline, Just 50 Ducks In A CVS
Consumerist | 28 October 2013
Do ducks prepare for the winter by gathering supplies from nearby retail outlets?
Part 2, Ho…
Wild Cards – Week of 10.27.13
Dark Journalist & Richard Dolan: Strange UFO Encounters & Intelligence Connections
YouTube | 29 October 2013
Join Dark Journalist and Oxford Scholar Dr. Joseph Farrell in a riveting interview as the…
Welcome to Our World, Angela
Photo Credit: Keith Tyler
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On behalf of the American people, Chancellor Merkel, I would like to apologize for the invasive surveillance that you may have experienced over t…
16 Horsepower – “Praying Arm Lane”
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Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson, Emerging Markets 101
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Equity Overview: Emerging Markets 101
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Flashpoints 10-23-13. Catherine Austin Fitts
Today on Flashpoints: Catherine Austin Fitts Returns for another in-depth session of community business.
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A Ditty From the Irish
A song inspired by the Irish Government and their efforts to work for the benefit of everyone – except the Irish people.
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7.3-Magnitude Quake in Japan
By ABC News/AP
An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the region t…
Crowdsourcing
By RT
Crowdfunding is coming to Wall Street! Will a new SEC rule democratize the capital markets?
Or is Joe Six-pack about to be “muppetized” by a new brand of sell-side-marionets?
We dig into th…
Social Security’s Real Retirement Age Is 70
**CAF Note: Here is a trial ballon from a respected source on one of the options to reengineer Social Security. This is one to take seriously.**
By Alicia H. Munnell
The brief’s key findings are:
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European Utilities: How to Lose Half a Trillion Euros
By The Economist
On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh). That is, generatin…
SEC Releases ‘Crowdfunding’ Rule
Photo Credit:Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
By Sarah N. Lynch
Entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for investors will be able to solicit over the Internet from the general public under a new propos…
At Home in Dogwood Mudhole Part 2 is Now Available for Pre Order
By Franklin Sanders
Friends, Volume 2 of At Home In Dogwood Mudhole (Best Thing We Ever Did) is now available for preorder at www.dogwoodmudhole.com. It went to the printer today and we estimate it…
Oct. 21, 2013
By Chuck Gibson
As a part of our regular market analysis we continuously watch the internals to look for structural changes that may provide warning a change may be afoot. Two of the “internals…
The Politics of Sex and Race
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of my greatest prayers for America is that men and women have an honest conversation about how we have been played against each other and then black folks and white fo…
Treasuries Lose Cachet on Lowest Foreign Demand Since ’01
**CAF Note: The cost of the US government borrowing money to generate corporate earnings is now reaching parity globally**
By Daniel Kruger & Anchalee Worrachate
America’s borrowing costs are on t…
Fukushima Overwhelmed With Radioactive Water
By AlJazeera
Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Disclosure: 1st of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
Challenge #1 Disclosure
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We do …
SEC Looks to Ease Checks on Crowdfunding Investors
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By Dave Michaels
Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual …
Money & Markets – Week of 10.20.13
Exclusive – Boeing Gets $20.7 Billion Worth of 737 Max Commitments from China: Sources
Reuters | 25 October 2013
Boeing Co (BA.N) has secured commitments for around 200 of its 737 Max aircraft…
Fed…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.20.13
China’s London-Zurich-Hong Kong Gold Conduit — a Major Financial Coup D’etat
USA Gold | 18 October 2013
The United Kingdom’s gold exports to Switzerland jumped from 85 tonnes to 1,016 tonnes…..
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.20.13
Bank of America Liable for Countrywide Mortgage Fraud
Yahoo! Finance | 23 October 2013
Bank of America Corp was found liable for fraud on Wednesday over defective mortgages…
U.S. Housing Regulators…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.20.13
Closer Look: Travels of Xi and Li Show Beijing Has New Approach to ASEAN
Caixan Online | 25 October 2013
The president and premier hit the trail to start a fresh diplomatic effort in the region…
Fu…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.20.13
Who Said Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees? Gold Found in Eucalyptus Tree Leaves
ABC Melbourne | 23 October 2013
In a world-first research conducted by CSIRO geoscientists, gold particles have been discover…
Food & Health – Week of 10.20.13
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GMO Mini-Summit
The scary truth about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is being deliberately kept from you…
China Smog Emergency Shuts City of 11 Milli…
Limits Approved for Genetically Modified Crops in Kauai, Hawaii
By Andrew Pollack
Legislators on the island of Kauai in Hawaii have approved a bill that would restrict the use of pesticides by companies developing genetically modified crops there.
The 6-to-1 …
Life – Week of 10.20.13
Catherine’s Latest Kiva Loan
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A loan of $275 helped Korto to purchase more rice, oil, pepper, fish, meat, charcoal, etc. for her business…
The Brutal World of the Nelson-era Navy
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Wild Cards – Week of 10.20.13
Dark Journalist & Richard Dolan: Strange UFO Encounters & Intelligence Connections
YouTube | 20 October 2013
In this no-holds-barred part two of Dark Journalist’s interview with historian Richard Do…