Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.29.09
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Receive $46 Billion From Treasury
Bloomberg.com (02 April 09)
KPMG Hit With Lawsuit Over New Century Collapse
Reuters (01 April 09)
Geopolitical – Week of 3.29.09
Govt. Seeks to Reverse Ted Stevens’ Conviction
Associated Press (01 April 09)
“We the People” to “King of the World”: “You’re Fired!”
Truthout (01 April 09)
GM’s Treatment Smacks of Martha Stewar…
Precious Metals -Week of 3.29.09
Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default?
Seeking Alpha (02 April 09)
A Reporter Actually Gets it: IMF Gold Will Never Hit Market
GATA (02 April 09)
The Sting
Silver Seek.com (30 March 09)
Russia …
Food & Health – Week of 3.29.09
Fooling With Disaster?
Facing South (02 April 09)
8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
Alternet (01 April 09)
Experimental Vaccine Used in Ebola Exposure Case
Google (27 March 09)
‘Holy Mary, Hel…
Life – Week of 3.29.09
Earth Population ‘Exceeds Limits’
BBC (31 March 09)
America’s Newest Wilderness System
The Daily Green (02 April 09)
TNT Area 5 – Five Year Neighborhood Plan
tnt5.wikispaces.com
The Bright Built…
Technology – Week of 3.29.09
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
The New York Times (28 March 09)
Money & Markets ~ Charts 3.27.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report which will resume on Thursday, 2 April.
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Geithner's Plan: $1 Trillion for Shredding?
Jim Sinclair of MineSet.com reports that James Galbraith, author of The Geithner Plan Won’t Work, was on Bloomberg TV this morning and noted the mortgage collateral fraud that I have been warning ab…
Health Revolution Petition
“We, the People of these United States of America, hereby call for revolutionary changes in our health care system that encourage health and prosperity instead of disease and corporate profit.”
. …
A Comment on Geithner's Plan
By Carolyn Betts
I am an attorney who was working in Washington with RTC during the S&L crisis, so I know something about “toxic asset” sales. I have been poking around the legal and contractin…
Quote du Jour
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
Details on Treasury Public Private Partnership Investment Program
From The U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Room
Treasury Press Release
Fact Sheet (PDF)
White Paper and FAQs
Catherine’s comments on her Community Business segment on Flashpoints on how to …
First Quarter 2009: Looking Back
I am headed to Europe this week and will be reading and writing my quarterly wrap up for next week’s Solari Report. If there are any issues you would like me to address, please feel free to post them …
Quote Du Jour
“As the estimable John Gray, of the London School of Economics, wryly explains in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, the point of quantitative easing is to furnish the means to “re-ener…
Solari Prayer Team Call . . . Every Thursday Except Holidays
Heartfelt thanks and many blessings to all who have joined us in prayer, either on the conference line or at home. You cannot know what a difference it makes! Catherine and the entire Solari Team ar…
Money & Markets – Week of 3.22.09
New Gold Rush: Party Like It’s 1849
Yahoo News (26 March 09)
A New World Currency Draws Nearer After Geithner’s Slip
GATA (25 March 09)
Cuomo Subpoenas AIG Swap Data in Taxpayer Fund Probe (Update5)…
Happy Birthday, Solari!
Today is Solari’s birthday.
We started operations on March 22, 1998. I was sitting in a beautiful mansion in Washington staring at a blank piece of paper as most everyone I knew told me my life was o…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.22.09
Dan Rather Reports 407: Elizabeth Warren
mefeedia(13 March 09)
Food & Health – Week of 3.22.09
Bacterial Infection Kills 100 Patients at Quebec Hospital in 18 Months
myTELUS.com (04 Aug 04)
Growing Your Own Food On One Square Yard Of Land
Op Ed News.com (18 March 09)
White House to Break Grou…
Life – Week of 3.22.09
Johnny Carson – Jimmy Stewart – Beau Poem
20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie
Truthout (23 March 09)
MOGtv: Live: Jolie Holland Sings “Delia”
Charlie Giles Needs Help
911blogger.com (16 March …
Technology – Week of 3.22.09
Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip
Technology Review (25 March 09)
Scientists in Possible Cold Fusion Breakthrough
Breitbart.com (24 March 09)
Researchers Find Ways to Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air…
Attack on Credit Unions?
Credit unions have provided a serious alternative to banking with big banks. Their strength in their communities commands a market share that the big banks want. So this news is ominous. Given what I …
The Goldman Trough
I must say, it sure pays to have the Secretary of Treasury working for you and your partners instead of for the citizens or the good of the whole.
I just finished reading Goldman Sach’s latest Form 1…
How is Your Pension Fund Doing?
With special thanks to one of our favorite sources, Jim Willie at Golden Jackass, here is a roundup of some of articles that indicate the growing challenges faced by pension funds.
Ever wonder why yo…
Quote du Jour
“. . . it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this…
Flawed Food Safety Bills in Congress
We have received many e-mails about the Food Safety Bills introduced in Congress. We share your concerns. One of our most trusted sources on food issues is the Weston A. Price Foundation. Here is thei…
The Nuts & Bolts of Organizing a Solari Circle
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The Solari Report – 19 Mar 2009
Michael Al…
Is the Baltic Dry Index Rising?
Wikipedia on the Baltic Dry Index
Great Time to Cut Operations at the SEC, Huh?
“Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro warned yesterday that the agency will “make significant cuts in its current operations” this year unless Congress authorizes it to spend more…
Groundwater Resources of the World
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Find this map at: WhyMap.org
Stewart vs Cramer
“You knew what the banks were doing and yet were touting it for months and months – the entire network was. And so now to pretend that this was some sort of crazy once in a lifetime tsunami that nobod…
Money & Markets – Week of 3.15.09
China Inc. On Huge Foreign Buying Spree
MoneyNews.com (19 March 09)
Short selling hedge funds lit the spark that led to the global economic meltdown.Now they want to help craft the laws Congress wi…
The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble
To: The Wall Street Journal
Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble”
By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Dated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In hi…
Geopolitical – Week of 3.15.09
Who owns Colorado’s rainwater?
Los Angeles Times (18 March 09)
The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement
The August Review (18 March 09)
Lose Your Property For Growing Food?
World Net Daily (16 M…
Precious Metals – Week of 3.15.09
China Lost Billions in Diversification Drive
Financial Times (15 March 09)
Gold Fix- The Real Story on Gold
Kirbyanalytics
GoldMoney Alert – 15 March 2009
GoldMoney (15 March 09)
UPDATE 1-Singap…
Food & Health – Week of 3.15.09
Only In America Could Misery Be Turned Into a Commodity
Thomas Paine’s Corner (14 March 09)
Chilean Town Withers in Free Market for Water
The New York Times (14 March 09)
Growing Power in an Urban …
Life – Week of 3.15.09
Unlived Lives
Awaken in the Dream
Airports’ Homeless Resist Efforts to Remove Them
Yahoo News (16 March 09)
Talks Willie Smits: A 20-year Tale of Hope: How we Re-grew a Rainforest
TED (March 09)
A…
Technology – Week of 3.15.09
Consumers Want Unrestricted Internet Access: Survey
Reuters (18 March 09)
Vatican Starts Chinese Website But Some Fear Block
Reuters (16 March 09)
Google Turns Voicemail Into Email
Reuters (12 March…
Hersh on Government Assassinations
Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes ‘Executive Assassination Ring’
Minnesota Post (11 March 09)
Money & Markets ~ Charts 3.12.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report.
Click here to view all charts as a pdf file.
Currency …
Catherine Austin Fitts at GoldRush 21 (August 2005)
Catherine Austin Fitts speaking at the GoldRush 21 conference held in Dawson City, Yukon Canada on August 7-9 2005 – predicts current crisis and the importance of Main Street to real solutions.
Dirty, Dirty…
Congress Saves on Online Contracts: Senate Makes Major Concession in Stripping Internet Posting Provision from Stimulus
Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to …
The Illustrations the New York Times Paid Money Not To Print
This Kissinger image (by David Levine) is one of 320 illustrations—by 142 of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary artists – that The New York Times itself originally commissioned for its Op-Ed …
Confiscation = Government Run
If the Administration wants to provide bailout relief, here is a simple solution. Waive taxes on 401ks and IRAs and allow Americans to withdraw all monies tax free so they can reinvest in real asset…
Bailout Mo’ Money
We thought we would dig out the data to update Bloomberg’s calculation of November 2008 that totaled the bank bailouts at $8.5 trillion.
Here is our list of additional commitments:
I. $750 Billi…
Precious Metals: More FAQs
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The Solari Report – 12 Mar 2009
This is the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to Westpoint, Tennessee on Thursday, March 1…
Cash On The Sidelines
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A New Beginning
Tom Fox Photography
Most Foreclosures Pack Into a Few Counties
STATE-BY-STATE GRAPHIC: Foreclosures in 2008
WASHINGTON — More than half of the nation’s foreclosures last year took place in 35 counties, a sign that the financial crisis devastating the nationa…
Sound Advice From Don Coxe
“Believing that you could put together bad stuff with good stuff, mix it up, and make it great stuff, is the debauched, debased, phony belief system that brought down Wall Street.
Believing that you…
Money & Markets – Week of 3.08.09
Madoff: Yes, Your Honor, I Ran a Huge Ponzi Scheme
Yahoo Finance (12 March 09)
Britain Monetizes Its National Debt
marketskeptics.com (11 March 09)
Regulatory Reports Show 5 Biggest Banks Face Huge …
Geopolitical – Week of 3.08.09
Georgians Could Pay Future State Taxes in Gold
bizjournals.com (06 March 09)
The Big Bad Database of Senator Norm Coleman
wikileaks.org (11 March 09)
Madoff Whistleblower Lawyer Calls For New Finan…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.08.09
Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout
The New York Times (02 March 09)
Glenn Beck’s Heart-stopping Housing Chart
YouTube
“The Bezzle” Defined
The Market Ticker (08 March 09)
Precious Metals – Week Of 3.08.09
Modern Gold Rush Under Way
YouTube
Central Banks Reported to be Net Buyers of Gold in January
GATA (10 March 09)
Gold: You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down
sliderontheblack.com (12 March 09)
Food & Health – Week of 3.08.09
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
Cryptogon.com (09 March 09)
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine Wi…
Life – Week of 3.08.09
Web Genome Project to Map the Internet
Scoop Independent News (11 March 09)
Google Turns Voicemail into E-Mail
Reuters (12 March 09)
II Divo “Amazing Grace”
Brightcove.com
Can Humans Cause Earthqua…
The Race to Zero
“I was standing there, about to put a dollar bill into a vending machine, and it hit me: I could use my dollar to buy a pack of gum or a package of mints, or else I could use my dollar to buy a shar…
Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
The full page ad in Ruppert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for its “Future of Finance Initiative” starts off by saying that the financial system has stopped working.
I completely disagree.
The fina…
Money & Markets
I will be posting a round up of charts each Thursday which compare gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report.
Click here to view all cha…
Quote du Jour
“Agriculture’s been a horrible business for 30 years. For decades the money shufflers, the paper shufflers, have been the captains of the universe. That is now changing.
The people who produce real…
Beware the Privatization of State and Local Assets
At its beginning, the ruling powers in Great Britain embarked on one of the most sustained efforts to destroy community life ever undertaken.
From 1770 to 1830 some 3,280 enclosure bills were passed …
Proposed U.S. Budget
The new budget tells the story. The U.S. government collects taxes from Americans and debt tithes globally and then gives the money to the banks and funds the military.
Proposed US Budget
Global Re…
Sam Smith Moves To Maine
The Progressive Review is one of the finest news sources around. It’s esteemed publisher is proof positive that not everyone who graduates from Harvard goes along with the game. Sam’s comments on le…
Help Keep GATA Going
A Challenge From a Tennessee Hillbilly to Help GATA
By Chris Powell – GATA (3 Mar 09)
“Thanks to some of you, GATA has met the two $300 matching contribution challenges we were given during the Phoe…
Numbers in the News
Mathematicians Discover the Largest Number
Consent of the Governed Blog (11 Feb 2009)
PALO ALTO, CA – An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integ…
Green-Tech Investing
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The Solari Report – 05 Mar 2009
John Rubino’s latest book, Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom, is as good as the one before, …
Charles Walters: 1926 ~ 2009
“It’s with great sadness that we pass along the news that Acres U.S.A. founder/executive editor Charles Walters passed away on January 14, 2009…”
. . . view the rest of the Acres, USA article
Paul Harvey: 1918 ~ 2009
Paul Harvey at Wikipedia
Paul Harvey Tribute – ABC
Broadcasting Pioneer Paul Harvey Dies at Age 90 – Yahoo.com
Quote du Jour
“People have lost their sense of humor. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a r…
The China Question
There is a Internet rumor that the U.S. has granted the Chinese the power of eminent domain if the U.S. defaults on its debt. This does indeed raise the question: “What is the U.S. giving the Chine…
Water Wonders
Simple elixir called a ‘miracle liquid’
Los Angeles Times – By Marla Dickerson (23 Feb 2009)
Money & Markets – Week of 3.01.09
Fed Refuses to Release Bank Data, Insists on Secrecy
Bloomberg.com (06 March 09)
Frank Seeking Prosecutions for Financial Wrongdoing
Bloomberg.com (06 March 09)
Blows to Barrick
The Dominion (05 Ma…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.01.09
Mortgage Bailout to Aid 1 in 9 U.S. Homeowners
The Wall Street Journal (05 March 09)
This is it! Where’s The Note, Who’s The Holder: Enforcement Of Promissory Note Secured By Real Estate
Livinglies…
Geopolitical – Week of 3.01.09
360,000 Veterans May Have Brain Injuries
USA Today
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Tightens State Control of Food Amid Rocketing Inflation And Food Shortages
Telegraph.co.uk (04 March 09)
Chávez Targets Ca…
Precious Metals – week of 3.01.09
Survey: Over Two-Thirds of Chinese Economists Favor Gold Over US Bonds
China Stakes.com (02 March 09)
Buy / Sell Gold And Silver
24thGold
Gold Price Correction Will Not Last
The Moscow Times.com (02…
Food & Health – Week of 3.01.09
Food Stamp Enrollment Jumps to Record 31.8 Million
Reuters (05 March 09)
Baxter: Product Contained Live Bird Flu Virus
Toronto Sun (05 March 09)
Officials Investigate How Bird Flu Viruses Were Sent …
Life – Week of 3.01.09
Review: Los Farruco at Royce Hall
Los Angeles Times (04 March 09)
The Town with No Tuition?
Inside Higher Ed (03 March 09)
Tunguska-sized Space Rock Buzzes Earth
NewScientist (03 March 09)
The…
Sales of "Atlas Shrugged" Soar
Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009—Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of …
Quote du Jour
“I’m a lunatic farmer, that’s my new catch phrase. I have a Ph.D. That stands for Post Hole Digger. Today we only need to buy toilet paper and Kleenex, everything else we make here. The only reason …
Letter to the Editor
Editor, The Nation
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On February 13th, you published “The Peterson Foundation Responds” by David Walker, CEO of The Peterson Foundation (See Peterson Foundation Tax Return, Pet…
Solari Prayer Team Call Continues . . . Every Thursday Except Holidays
Heartfelt thanks and many blessings to all who have joined us in prayer, either on the conference line or at home. You cannot know what a difference it makes! Catherine and the entire Solari Team ar…
Financial Coup d'Etat & Your 401k: Uh-oh
Now that social security is being looted, the time has come to replenish it with the remaining balances in our 401k’s.
The George Orwell award to Dean Baker, who thinks the solution is to give the go…
Bubba Goes Green; Fox is Miffed
This first video is a documentary which describes a Southern Christian community exploring the creation of an ethanol business for energy independence and other businesses to build local self-sufficie…
The Data Beast – Part VI
In Stanley Kubrick’s thriller, Eyes Wide Shut, we watch as Dr. Bill Harford (played by Tom Cruise) attends a private party given by a secret society whose members have the power, among other things,…
Understanding Financial Terminology
Step one to understanding the economy and finance is simply understanding the accounting and financial terms that are new to you or which you do not understand. I usually start with a good dictionary …
Looting Social Security
William Greider of The Nation has written a excellent description of the coming assault on the social safety net.
Trillions have been stolen, yet rather than recapture it and hold people accountab…
Bank Nationalization
A question in from a network member:
So I would like your take on the situation: Is the movement to nationalize banks:
a way to increase productivity and predictability – by eliminating a
whole la…
Money & Markets – Week of 2.22.09
The Oracle with Max Keiser
A YouTube Video (27 Feb 2009)
Ex-Treasury Official Confirms Gold Suppression Scheme
GATA (24 Feb 09)
Delphi Allowed to Cancel Benefits for 15,000 Workers (Update3)
Bloo…
Geopolitical – Week of 2.22.09
Judge Questions Law Giving Telecoms Immunity
Truthout (24 Feb 09)
NAFTA Renegotiation Must Wait, Obama Says
Truthout.org (20 Feb 09)
Army Charity Hoards Millions
Truthout.org (22 Feb 09)
Secret Rep…
Precious Metals – Week of 2.22.09
Swiss Party Wants to Punish U.S. For UBS Probe
Reuters (21 Feb 09)
The Long And The Short Of It
plata.com (20 Feb 09)
Food & Health – Week of 2.22.09
Cash-Strapped Communities Suffer as Corporations Target Water Systems
Common Dreams.org (25 Feb 09)
Five Brain-Manipulating Technologies That Prove Dollhouse Exists Right Now
Mad Science (17 Feb 09)
Life – Week of 2.22.09
A FAMILY CURSE
awakeninthedream.com
Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans
Short Sharp Science (22 Oct 08)
Amid The Grieving, a Rare Act of Sportsmanship
Rivals High (18 Feb 09)
Guard…
Rigorous Intuition
In 1997, a strategic planning group at the CIA made a visit to my company in Washington. They brought with them a woman whose job and title were classified. I was not allowed to know them. She com…
John Taylor Gatto
I just heard a recording of an outstanding speech by John Taylor Gatto called “A Short, Angry History of Modern Schooling.” Check out his website. If you feel like you are only one person, check out…