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"The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.74% gained 211.81 points, or 0.7%, to close at 28,956.90, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.67% rose 21.65 points, or 0.7%, to 3,274.70…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“If there’s no love, what then?” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
This coming week, we continue our publication of the 2019 Annual Wrap Up.
For the first two weeks …
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power." ~ Marcus Aurelius
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The digital magazine PDF of the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up – Will ESG Turn the Red Button Green? is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
"Everyone should be aware that inflation may rise in the future—and that it may do so unexpectedly strongly. But the long-term picture is that we are living in a disinflation…
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I am working on The State of Our Currencies – given Putin’s recent comments,…
“Nominal GDP growth over the past five years would have been negative if U.S. public debt had not increased, one thing everybody seems to miss when they look at these GDP numbers…
“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.” ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday, we publish the second in our two…
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ~ Wayne Dyer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am pleased to publish our cover for the Solari Report 3rd Quarter 2019 Wrap Up.
Our theme is…
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ~ Wayne Dyer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
It’s time to begin our 3rd Quarter 2019 Wrap Up. My announcement of our cover and 3rd …
“Wealth has often been regarded by poets and philosophers as a source of evil and yet the fault lies, not with money, but with those who use it. Indeed, money should be regarded as a …
“Gold is making money, bitcoin is making money, stocks are making money, bonds are making money…. I’d rather own gold than bitcoin.” ~Jeffrey Gundlach on 2019 YTD financial market p…
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
~ Albert Camus
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“It is hard for countries to accept the U.S. dollar as settlement for international trade when the U.S. has been excused from accounting. People do not want to do business with entitie…
“It is hard for countries to accept the U.S. dollar as settlement for international trade when the U.S. has been excused from accounting. People do not want to do business with entities that do no…
The PDF and Flipbook of the 2018 Annual Wrap Up – the Real Game of Missing Money, Volume I and II is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Some of our subscribers have suggested that they would like to mail copies of the “2018 Annual Wrap Up – The Real Game of Missing Money, Volume I, to their financia…
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“The enemy of women is not men. No, and the enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of the capitalist is not the communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the en…
“Now we are aiming at Iran. The rumors in Washington (true or false we’ll soon know): around August we’ll be heading toward Iran from bases which are being established in eastern…
“Looking forward, IMF projections imply that the dollar zone will return to the sizeable deficits that were last seen in the mid-1980s. On this view, the dollar zone current account …
The Flipbook and PDF of the 3rd Quarter Wrap Up 2018 is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
“”There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are w…
“Caveat emptor (Let the buyer beware)” ~ The Ancient Rule
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week we continue our publication of the 2018 Annual Wrap Up with the Equity Overv…
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take thin…
“Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.” ~Edward Teller
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week we begin our publication of the 2018 Annual Wrap Up.
For the first …
“REITs were created in the US after President Eisenhower signed the Cigar Excise Tax Extension of 1960. The law was enacted to give all investors the opportunity to invest in large-scal…
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The rise of the Asian consumer is not just about the number of shoppers, but also about where financial and economic wealth will grow and how that wealth will translate…
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“I believe that in the fog and distorted noise of a world of booms and busts, the …
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“Tokyo is currently the world’s large…
According to a 2017 study by the Brookings Institution, 88 percent of the next 1 billion people to enter the middle class globally will be Asians. The size of the Asian middle class is exp…
“The demand for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or responsible investing (RI) is growing at a rapid pace with nearly USD 23 trillion of assets being professionally managed unde…
Commentary
“Trump’s election, Conte in Italy, Kurz in Austria, Wilders in the Netherlands, Le Pen in France…These are not populist revolts, these are cultural revolts.” ~ Dr. Joseph …
“We are, I believe, involved at present in what I can only call a Third World War….Man’s struggle to save his personality from destruction by technology is something more than a subs…
“Bank of America Merrill Lynch sees the size of the space industry octupling over the next three decades, to at least $2.7 trillion…As the cost of space access plummets, BofAML joine…
“Sometimes, you have to roll a hard six” ~ Admiral William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on The Solari Report, I will present the 1st Quarter 2018 E…
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“In space, the United States is going to do Colonel Glen proud. We are finally going to lead again. You see what’s happening? You see the rockets going up left and right. You haven 
“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.” ~Izaak Walton
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week we will begin our publication of the 1st Quarter 2018 Wrap U…
“Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.” ~John Gotti, American gangster and head of the Gambino family
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“To concentrate the mind, I fantasize about managing Stalin’s pension fund where the penalty for failing to deliver 4.5% real per year over 10 years is death.” ~Jeremy Grantham
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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“Come, Watson, come!…The game is afoot.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week – the first week of a new year – w…
“What is relevant is what solves the problem. If we had thought through real relevancies, we would be on Sirius by now.” ~ Sir Peter Medawar
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the last two w…
“Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy.” ~ Andrew Vachss.
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, I will…
“So long as stocks DO go up, nothing big is ever going to change, You say you want a revolution? You’re a MAGA guy and you want someone to drain the Swamp? You’re a Bernie Bro an…
“Culture is the integration of the divine in everyday life.” ~ John Edward Hurley
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, my discussion with Dr. Joseph P. Farre…
“When you are in the news business, always expect the unexpected.” ~ Helen Thomas
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Last weekend I was on the road, driving to Dr. Farrell’s house for two…
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“It is very important to have two eyes. With one, observe what is going on. With the other, foresee the future.” ~Park Hyeon-Joo, Chairman, Mirae Asset Global Investments
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“When you grow up in “The Family” like I did, you learn right off the bat that protection comes from everywhere, including the CIA, FBI and blessings from the Vatican who are at th…
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” ~ Lord Northcliffe
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week Dr. Joseph Farrell joins me for a fascina…
“But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the…
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How Do You Enforce the US Constitution When the Government is Breaking It?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result…
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
~ Deuterono…
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A new President and his administration now grapple with how the United States, its economy and its role in the world will evolve from the Bretton Woods system creat…
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“’Lockdown’ is what the stock market has been on since mid-February. We’ve got multiple terrorist attacks around the world, we’ve launched a U.S. missile strike on Syria, a battle …
“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” ~ Michael Corleone, Godfather III
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The question we ask in our 1st Quarter Wrap Up is “Can a new adminis…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pur…
“Don’t let the same dog bite you twice” ~ Chuck Berry
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday we will continue our rollout of the 2016 Annual Wrap Up with my overview of fina…
“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 ev…
“No one warned us. No one said you are going to lose two engines at a lower altitude than any jet in history. This was dual engine loss at 2,800 feet followed by an immediate water landing…
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“If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.” ~Benjamin Graham
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week w…
“My high octane speculation for today reiterates something I’ve suggested in many previous blogs: with the commmercialization of space comes the inevitable necessity of protecting those national…
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“Buy the shock” is emerging as a new buzzword — and investment strategy — on Wall Street.” ~ Adam Shell on Brexit
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Overview
Equity markets made a sharp correction in t…
“We interviewed about 2,000 of our clients and we got a very sobering message from them. They said: â€Well, you should realize that we all need banking, but we don’t need banks.” Ralph Hamers, …
“The debt-financed growth model has reached its limits. There are no short-cuts that aren’t reforms.” ~Wolfgang Schäuble, German finance minister, at G20 meeting in Shanghai
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“Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.” ~ Dave Ramsey
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Here are the trends and stories from the 1st Quarter that will help you stay informed on current events, particularly the ones likely to impact your time and money.
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6. What If?
7. Yields
8. Please Remember!
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“Deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don’t care whose fault it is, i…
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Overview
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Well, now I can stop saying, “The US stock market is long overdue for …
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“Nowadays, people will go anywhere to avoid paying tax. A quick visit to Lichtenstein, Monaco, maybe Jersey; empty the vaults of private wealth, and you could write off the world’s debt. In a da…
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William G.T. Shedd
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have been getting an increasing number of questions about risks in the equity market…
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William G.T. Shedd
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“I am a student of uncertainty. I have no idea where the stock market is going to be.”
~ Hugh Hendry
The following charts are reviewed in my audio comments for the Financial Market Round Up. Click…
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