“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the year-end wrap up published for subscribers last week, I de…

By Lina Khan

Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilize…

**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!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Federal enforcement is focused …

By Tyler Durden

Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of th…

By David B. Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a home at Chris Martenson’s website PeakProsperity.com with a secondary posting …

By Tyler Durden

It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other than the US), and when we first defined the concept of Pe…

By RT

Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum dropped a bombshell of sorts earlier this week when he accused American tech companies of placing government-friendly backdoors in their devices. Now Texas…

By Kevin Bullis

Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That would require switching energy sourc…

By My Budget 360

Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now equal to money. This is why big purchases like cars, housing, and even going to…

By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire

2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was shed on the widespread use of dragnet survei…

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Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene protein coding r…

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**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!**

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We are celebrating from December 24 – January 1. Our office will be closed.

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“Today, we are putting all our ‘Duck Dynasty’ products back in our stores, and, we apologize for offending you. We respect all individuals’ right to express their beliefs. We certainly did not…

**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!**

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Engineer Onat Ekinci joined me on the Solari Report this year for an excellent briefing on 3D Printing.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

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By Dave Michaels

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency’s lates…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and Thailand doing the same, not to mention vari…

By Binyamin Appelbaum

The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat from its stimulus campaign, because …

**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!**

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Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will be incorporating the material into the Annual Wrap Up…

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MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into one of the MakerBot retail stores with a .S…

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China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacec…

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***CAF Note:The Volcker Rule has been approved. Here is the press release, draft regulation and fact sheet***

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The number of employees across the firms of the broad-based Russell 2000 equity index has collapsed by more than half from its peak. The price of that index, in the same period, has…