By Catherine Austin Fitts

Theme:

Caveat Emptor and The Milk Bucket – the simple way to understand politics and political debates in America.

Stories:

  • China Bubbles
  • Saker on Venezuela
  • David Stockman’s New Book on the Wall and US Global Strategy/DOD Budget
  • Caveat Emptor
  • The McCabe Interview & McCabe’s redacted $70,000 Table
  • Illinois Pension Schemes – the most clever piratization proposals yet
  • Fed on Negative Interest Rates
  • Trump Signs Space Directive
  • Jedi Wars: DOD requests stay in Jedi contract lawsuit in court of claims
  • Meditations at the Crossroads & Solving the Real Problem

Hero:

The Missing Money A Team

Call for Prayers for Rob Kirby and A Team

Let’s Go to the Movies

Walter Bosley at SSP 2015

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30 Comments

  1. Am I the only one who would ask how it comes that the Chinese have a moon presence and now the Japanese are planning asteroid mining, but we only have unmanned ‘science’ missions out there? Couldn’t the US as a minimum acknowledge that its space program has been doing the same thing? I understand that such operations wouldn’t cost $21T and that NASA’s budget has not been very much, so some ‘splaining would appear necessary, and again, the credibility gap is unmoored and growing. Even without a reset financially, the BS isn’t selling and it’s likely Washington will run out of stories before it runs out of investors. Needless to say, the two go hand-in-hand.

    1. There was a whole campaign organized around that theme….including the Obama Foundation – so the pressure was on.

      1. well, that blew up in their faces. It’s promising. They are getting messy and making mistakes.

  3. It is, of course, early in the reportage, but doesn’t this supposed plan to kill Democrats purportedly having been planned by a Coast Guard officer stink to high heaven? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coast-guard-officer-accused-of-being-domestic-terrorist-with-hit-list-of-lawmakers-journalists-2019-02-20
    It seems that projection by the left now includes fake preparations to add meat to fake news. The Smollett case was an amateur attempt at something similar. This one seems to employ more sophisticated techniques. Still, it is betrayed by its failure to launch, the ready discovery of pat evidence, and the uncharacteristic behavior of the presumed guilty party. A 49 year-old Coastie is likely nearing retirement, has sacrificed much to get to that point, and is basically a committed career public servant. He wouldn’t have any more access to his alleged targets than anyone else, and therefore his scheme takes no advantage of his position. It doesn’t add up. Comments?

    1. John:

      I read the article. I would need to file that one under “I have absolutely no idea.” The whole thing sounds beyond over the top.

      Catherine

      1. I am led to liken it to the Vegas shooter incident. That one has faded away as a gnarled non sequitur into the mists of miscellany.

        1. Actually the FBI published a 3 page final report that is the kind of report that people with $70,000 conference tables right.

          2. Unlikely. No one get that nuts without a crowd. Either egging him on or planting things. 🙂

          3. I meant what they must have said in the 3-page report: Nothing to see here, folks. Just a lone nut. You can trust us to protect you.

  4. Under the ‘Consider the Source’ category:

    Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies

    1) Apple
    2) Amazon
    3) Berkshire Hathaway
    4) Walt Disney
    5) Starbucks
    6) Microsoft
    7) Alphabet
    8) Netflix
    9) JPMorgan Chase
    10) FedEx

    Really? FedEx is a Yes! However, if one ever doubted that propaganda works, look at #1 – #9. Yikes!! Looks like the Who’s Who of the Deep Staters!!

    1. 1st Quarter Wrap Up is back to a discussion of ESG and screening business – same issue.

    1. The “peak everything” spiral down is underway and accelerating – its everywhere. The states that have been fiscally responsible will be much better places to be.

      2. But which states are those? Would love to see a list or to hear you talk about it in a money and markets!

        1. I have found it tracks closely to the pension fund funding –

          We covered the state pension fund gaps in the 2017 Annual Wrap Up. Here is the 2016 Study from Pew on State Pension Funding Gaps. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2018/04/the-state-pension-funding-gap-2016

          I have not done a comprehensive underwriting recently. If I did one here are the states that would be considered:

          Tennessee
          South Dakota
          North Dakota
          Wisconsin
          Nebraska
          Idaho
          Iowa
          Wisconsin

          I would review their most recent official statements at the EMMA system at MSRB https://emma.msrb.org/
          their consolidated annual financial reports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_annual_financial_report
          and the budgets and financial statements at their website

          if you have never done a review like this, these will be helpful:

          https://home.solari.com/book-review-follow-the-money-a-citizens-guide-to-local-government/
          https://home.solari.com/unpacking-your-financial-ecosystem/

          1. Mary:

            I would also add – IMO better to live in a financial responsible place with cold weather and migrate south nomad style or offshore for the winter than live in a state with serious fiscal and financial problems. The danger is, of course, that the federal fiscal challenges puts all US citizens and residents at risk no matter when we are.

            Catherine

    1. try watching it in its entirety, he says so much. The White House channel is the best source for an unedited Trump.

    2. The challenges of moving space out of the Air Force were too much – so it stays in the Air Force Command.

  7. Gold seems to be going on a tear recently. Are the wealthy fleeing to it because of the coming recession?

      1. Oh – I left out my question! CT got rid of all it’s counties in 1960(?) and then substituted marshals appointed by committee for elected sheriffs in 2000(?) – I believe Alaska is only other state without sheriffs. On Friday, the State is looking at forced school regionalization. How should residents approach this system – by considering the State of CT as one large county?
        S.B. 457, An Act Concerning the Size of School Districts
        S.B. 738, An Act Concerning the Creation of Regional School Districts
        S.B. 874, An Act Concerning Education Initiatives and Services in Connecticut

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