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November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in C…

Allied Arts Center, Menlo Park, California, November 8th & 9th, 2014

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Thirty-five subscribers came from all across the United States as well as from Europe, Australia …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Melissa Millan, Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co (“MassMutual,”) was stabbed to death on November 20th. This raised more than a few e…

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“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” ~ Charlie Munger

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday night is Team Awesome Sol…

By Gaia Pianigiani

NAPLES, Italy — One azure morning in December, Laura Cozzolino arrived at her corner cafe in central Naples and ordered her usual: a dense espresso, which arrived steaming h…

By Nick Lavars

3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Hoover has …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sometimes I have a profound sense of being ignored.

Actually, I am not being ignored. Rather, I live among caring, well educated Americans with a profound desire to NOT f…

[CAF Note: Is a Jeb Bush campaign going to clear the decks by hanging it all on Cheney?]

Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the tort…

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North Korea–United States Relations developed primarily during the Korean War, but in recent years have been largely defined by North Korea’s three tests …

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By Heather Somerville

TRACY, Calif. — Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s ol…

The year we piled up risks like a global game of Tetris

by David Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review (ref 1–7) first posted on Chris Martenson’s website Peak Prosperity (ref 2) wi…

Alarmingly, the Russians in recent months have been using Cuba to build up a menacing Cold War-era presence at America’s doorstep.

Some Republican and Democratic leaders, along with many of my c…

[CAF Note: The Economist is dead wrong about gun control, but many of their other points are well taken. What is most interesting is that they are saying that the US police state has gone too far an…

by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Recently I had a private conversation with a friend of mine about what is going on in Russia, and the West’s assessment of it. During our conversation, I stressed that on…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As Russia confirms that it will maintain oil sales at current levels, the oil price and Russia equities see a bounce:

5 Day chart of RSX vs OIL vs S&P

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CrowdMed harnesses the wisdom of crowds to collaboratively solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. The company offers individuals, insurance providers, a…

[CAF Note: Friday is quadruple witching day!]

DEFINITION of ‘Quadruple Witching’

The expiration date of various stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures. Al…

Three decades of tougher laws and policing have left nearly one in three adult Americans with a criminal record, according to data kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That arrest wave is wa…

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Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV)

by Catherine Austin Fitts

I don’t understand why the media keeps saying that Obamacare is not working and has n…

[CAF Note: I live in a rural area and do a lot of online shopping – particularly for books, so I found these numbers quite sobering.]

Independent businesses are poised to draw more people this holi…

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By Julie Bykowicz

Republicans now control the legislatures of 31 states, having just wrested chambers in nine from Democratic hands. Twenty-four of those states also have Republican governors, gi…

BIS warned that dollar loans to Chinese banks and companies are rising at annual rate of 47pc and now stand at $1.1 trillion

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Bank for International Settlements concerned …

A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. The use of term “wicked”…

“Everyone is talking about the stock market,” [Wu Yunfeng, an individual investor from Shanghai] said. “I was eating dumplings at a street side stall and the old lady running the place was buy…

“Make a law, make a business.” ~Old New Jersey street saying

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I thought it worth noting that Corrections Corporation of America (known as CCA, their ticker symbol is CXW) …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our hero this week on the Solari Report is Congressman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio. She just won her 17th Congressional term by a landslide. Smart, honest, hardworking, well educ…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The oil card is now getting an enormous push from the climate change chorus.

ISIS, College protests, OPEC, Al Gore’ whining, George Schultz’s electric car, German energ…

[CAF Note: Great discussion of the game between Russia and the G-7 – but be prepared for versions of this geopolitical parttern where the dollar goes much higher too.]

By Brandon Smith

Despite po…

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” ~ Rene Rivkin

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight is a big one. We will review our allocations and key market indicators and proceed to present ou…

By Susanne Walker and Eshe Nelson

A gauge of government bond yields around the world fell to an 18-month low as tumbling oil prices push down inflation expectations and economic growth falters.

The …

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By Parmy Olson

Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It’s dotted with gifts and photos fr…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I sometimes get requests for advice on how to approach medical problems. I am not the person to ask. Each person is unique and effective diagnosis and treatment can be highl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

My use of the word turtle as a verb began in 1998 during a period of extraordinary stress.

Almost all of my 1,001 best friends and colleagues decided to go with the flow …

***CAF Note: Hagel is competent. This is not good news.***

By Roger Runningen and Phil Mattingly

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down from his post after 21 months in office amid te…

[CAF Note: I suspect the recent meltdown by Bill Gross related more to his fears of managing the world’s largest bond fund in a world of diminishing dealer and institutional liquidity than personnel i…

[CAF Note: the integration of software and digital technology into hardware and infrastructure is upon us. This is an important development.]

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Mechatronics is a design process that inclu…