By Megan McArdle

Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors,” the federa…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a really big bonus this year.

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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!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The political process has devol…

**CAF Note: Are computers replacing FX trades because they are more efficient? Or because they are more obedient at implementing illegal schemes?**

By Ambereen Choudhury and Julia Verlaine

A widen…

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
~ Buddha

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…

**Note from CAF: The following was written in dialogue between two members of my network in Montana. The author is positive, very intelligent, thorough, highly educated, grounded. This is a highly r…

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By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals

The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this is very good footage documenting Dick Che…

By The Economist

Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and free trade, the notion t…

By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn

Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing?

There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or “fra…

Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.

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By Matt Taibi

Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps…

By Pension Dialog

As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, a…

By David Sirota

When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball” on climate change. I am not sure what …

‘Cos its true what they say
It’s better the devil you know”
~ Kylie Minogue

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As you can see from the banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…

**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

The dependence of the U.S. econ…

By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman

On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center of the world’s largest freight rail ya…

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By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald

The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…

By Adrianne Jeffries

NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.

Initial proposals are due …

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From: Catherine Austin Fitts
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM
To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net”
Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner

Dear Mayor Miner:

I am writing to request that…

***CAF Note: Now you know why I leave my cell phone in the car when I get home!***

By PRWeb

Cell-Phone-Detective.com has announced the launch of its Cell Spy Stealth mobile spyware app that allows…

By Anthony Wood

A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior of storm systems is set to launch. The Glob…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is:

“The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 10…

**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

While benefits and contracts to…

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By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal of U.S. exporters a day after President Bara…

By Chris Puplava

Emerging markets have been hemorrhaging this year and are now grabbing media attention. However, as the charts show, the decline in these markets and currencies has been taking pla…

By James Gallagher

Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.

Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now…

**CAF Note: I asked one of our subscribers if I could republish his comment on GMOs and Nano-Technology engineering of the food supply. This guy is essentially so knowledgeable about food and so in…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

President Obama has the challenging task of trying to persuade us that the US government should have a hand in softening the blow of income inequality.

While the Presiden…

By Wikipedia

Peter “Pete” Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south of San Francisco, saying he never thought he would see such a …

By LeWeb Founders

Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares his views on the tech sector in China …

**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

The use of the federal budget t…

By The Transnational Institute

The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos. This anthology exposes and ana…

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By Wikipedia

Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, te…

By Alfred McCoy

For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Ger…

By Gloria Goodale

As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the event a red flag for the future of the nation.

Gov. J…

By Tenth Amendment Center

The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as legislators in Tennessee introduced a bill to ban t…

By Sarah N. Lynch

Chinese units of the global “Big Four” accounting firms should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months, a judge in the United States ruled, in an escalatio…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of several large financial institutions (Deutsche…