II. Beats Me! What Is a Dollar?

By Franklin SandersJuly 27, 2022 “Money has a history which is fifty centuries old, and filled with an experience too valuable and too dearly bought to be ignored or thrown away.” ~ Alexander del Mar “Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against…

By Catherine Austin Fitts My “go to” website for technical analysis of precious metals, the US dollar & the US stock market is Rambus Chartology, where Rambus (that’s his handle – he’s the founding technical analyst) leads a discussion with extensive charts of what the markets are saying. In January 2016, Rambus launched his quarterly Solari…

“Tell me about God. I’ve almost forgotten.” ~ Four-year-old boy addressing his newborn baby brother (from Metanoia interview with Reverend John Gregory Toews) By Catherine Austin Fitts The campaign to ensure that each of us resonates in a trance with our smartphone and the local Wi-Fi—instead of with the divine intelligence as it weaves throughout…

“This is the end of Western civilization.” ~ Lewis Douglas (U.S. Budget Director), remark to James P. Warburg after  President Roosevelt announced that the U.S. was going off the gold standard, April 18, 1933 Lewis Douglas was wrong, of course. The end of Western civilization had already come 60 years earlier, when the United States…

“The Market is not benevolent.” ~ Anonymous “The market is not benevolent,” a friend of mine quips whenever I complain about this or that. He means that the market doesn’t owe you a living, and being insensate, doesn’t wish you good or ill. Like a chainsaw, it’s a great tool but dangerous to the ignorant…