I never cease to be amazed at the extent to which successful policies are portrayed as failed policies, and the transfer of public resources to private parties are spun as the result of government and…

I was back on the road last week — driving from Tennessee to New York to speak at Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma, a wonderful conference hosted by: Peak Oil NYC, Local Energy Solutions, and Fi…

Commentary on the IMF & World Bank
For this week’s News of the Week
First read the White House Press Statement:
Statement on International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings, April…

I watched the movie Capote last night. In the movie, Truman Capote is describing his emotional connection to one of the convicted murderers in the non-fiction story, “In Cold Blood.” He says, “It is l…

I just finished reading American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips. I like Phillips. I liked his last book — America…

The traditional American economy is now clearly into the dump phase of a managed “pump and dump” cycle that began in the mid-1990s with the “strong dollar policy.”

The housing bubble engineered by th…

“Culture is the integration of the divine in every day life.”- John Edward Hurley

Meditation I — Willie Louise

I first rode down Highway 18 South in 1978 when I was twenty-seven, riding my bicyc…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Popsicle Index is the % of people in a place who believe that a child can leave their home, go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle (ice cream) and come home alone saf…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I stood in a visitation receiving line for four hours tonight in front of Mildred Mitchell’s open casket with my cousins and her children and their spouses. Tomorrow the fun…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am thinking tonight about the things that each one of us can do in our everyday lives that will make a small but concrete difference in transforming us to a civilization…