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Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a majority of its citizens over many years. This is not just a fight over …
By Sam Smith
Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a majority of its citizens over many years. This is not just a fight over …
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Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and…
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I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona. After two days in Tucson, I headed east and north to Santa F…
“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early success of science, but in a rather grisly morning after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has do…
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Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a compromise sealed with President Bara…
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Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. Ms. Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the first Bush Administration, lead financial advisor to the U.S. De…
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When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding one or two, she found 30.
Ms. Marion, …
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As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one last trump card at his disposal: ignoring the d…
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Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for the lost revenue.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million in sma…
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No US Rating Agency to Ever Downgrade UST’s Below AAA with Negative Outlook
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Bulldoze: The New Way to Foreclose
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French Court Orders Investigation of Lagarde
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NASA Study Shatters Climate Alarmists’ Assumptions
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In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at heart in navigating today’s job market.
Cath…
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Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to addres…
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The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out Amer…
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Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support
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Obama’s Ambush on Entitlements
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Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts on Financial Survival Radio, a fascinating 2-part interview.
In this installment of our discussion, Catherine explores whether we are going through an e…
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This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I interview Scott Tip…
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner.
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Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduc…
Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2
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Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list o…
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Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing directo…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
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This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precio…
“Chance favors the prepared”
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President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agre…
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– Italian saying
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One of my goals for the decade is to read all of Joseph Farrell’s books. Most of them are stacked up in my den.
My interest in Farrell’s work began with his writings on t…
Shoplifting: Is It Good for the Economy?
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Moody’s Downgrades Ireland From Baa3 To Junk
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Silver Dealer Inventory Continues to Spiral to New Lows at the Comex – Pax Goldmana
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Roots of Crisis Buried Deep After Inquiry: Peter J. Wallison
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Map Of U.S. States …
Nanotechnology: Tracking Food From Farm to Fork…And You right Along With It
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Major Grocer Getting Rid of Self-checkout Lanes
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By Tyler Durden
Boiling Frog Alert: Congress Wants Automatic Wage Deductions To Pay Down The Debt
Folks… you just can’t make this stuff up.
On July 6th, just two days ago, at least a dozen busy…
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Faced with tax claims of more than $300 million from Revenu Quebec, embattled Montreal-based gold trader Kitco Metals Inc. now is officially in creditor protection, until July 27.
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President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicar…
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The fact is that Russia now joins Iceland and Afghanistan as the ONLY nations to have international arrest warrants out for banking thieves. This is our single most urgent concern…
CAF Note: One of the best public sources on government contracting and subsidies by state is now private. Too bad. Here is the announcement.
Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc.
For over 26 years, Eagle Eye P…
Southern Essex Registry of Deeds Audit Reveals That 75% of Assignments of Mortgage Are Invalid; O’Brien Says Banks Responsible for an Epidemic of Fraud. Once again urges Attorney’s General to st…
By Sam Smith
I was driving along when one of those smugly assured network financial advisors began talking about how to prepare for one’s retirement. I reached my destination before I got her nam…
[CAF Note: The day that Strauss-Kahn was arrested, I predicted that he would be released as soon as his candidacy in France was dead and the US had their pick in as the new head of the IMF. As things…
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At the Office 365 launch, Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, gave the first admission that cloud data — regardless o…
In Finance, the simple ideas are often the best. Exchange-traded funds, first launched 21 years ago, were a great idea. They were in effect tradable mutual funds. An investor got exposure to a dive…
Most call it one of the biggest financial crises in living memory. Others call it one great big Ponzi scheme. Whatever you want to call it, a bunch of people lost a bunch of money and the world of h…
By Joe Weisenthal
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June Jobs Report: the Ugly, the Ugly and the Ugly
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Goldman Sachs Said to Seize DBS Partners’ Options as ‘Eji’ Balks at Call
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Swiss Parliament to Discuss Gold Franc
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Pa. Family’s Fight For Rare Coins Reaches Court
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Russia Sells Gold as its Price Rises
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Central B…
The Booming Collapse of Housing – Why Housing Will Be a Bad Investment For The Current Decade.
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“Fast and Furious” Blows Sky-High
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NATO Using Nuclear Weapons In Libya
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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are C…
Bayer to Pay $750M in Genetic Rice Settlement
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Ruptured Pipeline Spills Oil Into Yellowstone River
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One in Three ‘Overwhelmed by Technology’
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