Published on Oct 4, 2015
The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doin…

As America’s economic supremacy fades, the primacy of the dollar looks unsustainable

IF HEGEMONS are good for anything, it is for conferring stability on the systems they dominate. For 70 years …

[CAF Note: This was published in December 2012. I am republishing today, in October 2015, as the debate in the US is sadly short of facts, not to mention an understanding or analysis of covert o…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you think you have had a tough decade so far, consider the leadership of the coal companies. In the last five years, the S&P is up almost 70%. Peabody Energy, the large…

by Catherine Austin Fitts

21st Century Fox stock is flying on the performance of The Martian with Matt Damon.

One of the things that helped The Martian was the announcement last week by NASA that …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Vladimir Putin’s recent speech at the United Nations is well worth reading. I would like to emphasize a section worth contemplating — especially when considering the em…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In June, I withdrew my recommendation of GoldMoney as an option for storing precious metals, as did Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger. My reasons were a change of control…

“If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.’
~ Francis of Assisi

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I arrived in Assisi by train from Rome on the Monday before last to attend a workshop on the P…

Subscribers can now access the transcript for the Solari Report “What’s Up This Fall?” at the post here. Non-subscribers can learn more about subscribing to the Solari Report at the store page here.

“If we fail to insist on health freedom, we lose our ability to create excellent health. They go hand in hand.”
~ Scott Tips

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Well, good for Donald Trump. He pointed out…

“My record label always says you shouldn’t talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can’t talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can’t talk about …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves…

“Time and tide wait for no man.”
~ Geoffrey Chaucer

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Download Shadow Work: Your Stolen Time as a PDF

Craig Lambert recently published a book called Shadow Work: The Unp…

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1

By Catherine Austin Fitts

When I suggested the placed-based data opportunity to Michael Bloo…

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this t…

“Whatever commodity you want, other than truth, is available in great supply, at a good price.” ~ Don Coxe

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I keep talking about the continued plunge in commodities prices…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Congratulations to Diane and John Shear, two of our amazing subscribers on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Here is a picture of them from our lunch earlier this month when…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

At last I can stop saying “the US markets are significantly overdue for a 10-25% correction.”

The correction is here. The S&P 500 is down 9.3% for the year and down 1…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the last week, I have gotten several questions on leadership – in particular on women and leadership.  I promised to republish a link to my recent series, Promoting Wome…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Given the volume of Chinese exports to Europe and Japan (and how much the Euro and Yen have fallen against the dollar) it is quite remarkabl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you want your donations to go far and do much, I highly recommend supporting permaculturalist Philip Munyasia in Kenya.

Here is his current crowd funding campaign.

I …

“Anything that can’t go on forever will end.”
~ Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 1987

by Catherine Austin Fitts

I am always surprised when investors in Berkshire Hathaway d…

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13:11

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last T…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It’s August – and the tension about what’s coming in a busy fall is rising. Some of the tension is created by the forces of disinformation as part of ongoing economi…

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I strongly oppose the rewrite of the State Department’s arms control regulations (ITAR), which could potentially grant the State Department a wide-ranging power to monitor a…

by Jon Rappoport

“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is…

“Outer space and cyberspace have become new commanding heights in the strategic competition among all parties.”
~ China’s Military Strategy, May 2015

by Catherine Austin Fitts

China has issu…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It looks like Varoufakis and Tsipras discovered the same thing that I discovered when I served in the US government. The financial accounting and payment systems are contr…

“Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the …

Greg Hunter and I had a spirited debate regarding the recent Iran deal on his website, usawatchdog.com. Grossly oversimplified, Greg opposed the deal while I was in favor of it.

My chief point was …

“I’ve gone to look for America” ~ Simon & Garfunkel

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am headed out tomorrow for a five day drive to California, much of it along the old U.S. Route 66.

I am curi…

“If we had been obliged to get permission from a board of directors, from banking interests, or from outside stockholders, for the expenditure of the millions that we have put into new buildings, ne…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

We apologize!

You may have noticed that we have been managing repeated Denial of Service and hack attacks. They have been quite fierce this year – coming from many differ…

By Wikileaks

Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services …

By Thom Feeney

All this dithering over Greece is getting boring. European ministers flexing their muscles and posturing over whether they can help the Greek people of not. Why don’t we the people j…

“Yet it must also be recognized that nuclear energy, biotechnology, information technology; knowledge of our DNA, and many other abilities, which we have acquired, have…given those with the knowl…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Ligh…

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
~ H. L. Mencken

By Catherin…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you like action films half as much as I do, then you are going to love The Worricker Trilogy, three political thrillers staring Bill Nighy and written and produced by D…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On June 2, 2015, the Wall Street Journal published its daily report on global central banks, Grand Central. The report was entitled, A Letter to Stingy American Consumers….

“People are always asking me where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question, The right question is: Where is the outlook most miserable? ” ~ John Templeton

By Solari Team

We are back t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

We are supporting our great friend and ally Liberty Bain in financing her study with the Seattle School of Counseling. Liberty is doing great things in this world and thi…

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
~ William Hazlitt

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The way I understand what’s happening in the …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Vivid Sydney is an 18-day annual event of light, music and art. Nothing is more spectacular than the light show dancing on the Sydney opera house.

Here are several photos t…

“How do we create a community where people are free to love one another?”
~ Jim Rouse

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On May 27, I flew from Wellington at the southern tip of New Zealand’s North I…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Tuesday, Solari Report subscribers and selected friends and entrepreneurs joined Jason Bawden-Smith and me for a discussion of Planet Debt and the global re-balancing c…

By Franklin Sanders

I read this bill establishing a Texas state precious metals depository a few nights ago and it has everything. I talked to a person involved and learned this bill was also entere…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Speaking as a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, an important traditional formula for Democratic Administrations to win Presidential elections is to juice the mortga…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Johnny Depp plays an intelligence agency operative working in Mexico who explains that his job is to “restore the balance.”
…

By Liz Gannes

Two decades after 1995, the year of the Netscape IPO, the Internet population has exploded in size, it’s much more mobile, and it’s increasingly driven by user-created content and…

“I don’t think a tough question is disrespectful.”
~ Helen Thomas, UPI White House Press Corp

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I arrived in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, on Monday. Kiwi’…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A wonderful audience turned out yesterday to support the Ficino Educational Trust lecture series at the University of Auckland Business School. I gave a presentation on th…

A note from Catherine Austin Fitts: As the Obama Administration moves forward aggressively with the TPP, I felt it was important for Solari Report subscribers to have an introduction and overview of…

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Monday was one of the most inspiring days of my time “down …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

There are some interesting footnotes in New Zealand’s new budget which speak to the re-balancing of the global economy.

View the budget numbers here
View the complete r…

“Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of madness, tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be time – but you must not speak its nam…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal published an article describing the unemployment picture in the town of Decatur, IL.

Although the unemployment rate in Decatur …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I wonder who flipped the switch.

Apparently last week spin central sent out the e-mail blast, telling everyone to call the top.

Goldman Sachs (who lead the bust of the …

“All government money comes with a sock in the jaw.”
~ Franklin Sanders

By Catherine Austin Fitts

While I was at the gym this weekend – a rare occasion when I watch television – Senator Bernie…

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream

And who, exactly, is “WE?” Inquiring minds would like to know…

— Catherine Austin Fitts

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