2016 Annual Wrap Up - News Trends & Stories Part I

“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 with 155 souls on board. No one has ever trained for an incident like that.” ~Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This Thursday we begin our roll out of the 2016 Annual Wrap Up!

This year’s Wrap Up brings valuable perspective onto what happened in 2016, the changes underway now and events ahead.  Our theme this year is “The Global Harvest and What It Means to Investors” – because food is the heart of local and global economic and political success.

We will start this Thursday with my Introduction and Overview as well as the first part of our conversation with Dr. Joseph Farrell on News Trends & Stories. Dr. Farrell and I will be cover Economy & Financial Markets, Geopolitics and Culture.  The following week we will  cover Science & Technology, The Unanswered Questions of 2017 and Inspiration.  You can follow and link to the selection of stories on the 2016 Annual Wrap Up web presentation.

In all of our Annual Wrap Ups to date, I have told you there is a good chance that the “slow burn “will continue through the next year. Not this year.

The heat is turned up and we are moving into a financial pressure cooker. With the financial coup accomplished and the debt growth model coming to an end, thousands of institutions will be forced into “controlled demolitions” – pension funds are cutting benefits, insurance companies are canceling policies, and companies will continue to layoff, move, close down or declare bankruptcy.

In the face of this wave of financial defaults, our opportunity is to reengineer government investment and expenditures from a negative to a positive return. Can we do it? If we don’t, we are headed into a long and difficult financial squeeze.  You will want to access our business and investment scenarios for 2017 when we cover them in our Equity Overview in the third week.

In Money & Markets this week I will answer your questions in Ask Catherine. Make sure you e-mail or post your questions.

For Let’s Go to the Movies, I am happy to announce that Sully has been chosen as Solari Report Movie of the Year. Congratulations to Clint Eastwood and the cast for creating a marvelous movie about truly extraordinary leadership – Captain Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III and the “Miracle on the Hudson.” Inspiring leadership in each and every person is exactly what we need when the unexpected is all around.  Leaders invent their futures – and that is exactly what we will do together in 2017.

Talk to you Thursday!

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"Ring Out, Wild Bells"

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out thy mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

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Resolution Blues by Roosevelt Sykes

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Special Solari Report: Can America Be Great Again? - Framing the Vision with Jon Rappoport

[CAF Note – The transcript is now available – this is public so I encourage you to circulate widely!]

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“Our circumstances are far too dire for the luxury of realism.” ~Caroline Casey

by Catherine Austin Fitts

Where are your risks and opportunities in the changes underway in the United States? Can America really be great again?

To ask these questions, we need to first consider the American oligarchy and the members of the establishment who set the policies that impact our finances and time. I divide them into three groups – Titanic Turners, Scaredy Cats, and Pigs:

• Titanic Turners have the intention, energy, experience, resources and courage to try to turn the Titanic in time.
• Scaredy Cats prefer to “cut and run” – they are the first to sail off in their well endowed lifeboats.
• Pigs wake up each morning saying, “What about me?” They are eager to strip natural resources and other assets, and are encouraging invasive digital technology, more regulations,”piratizations,” constitutional conventions, and state secession to help them do so. They fund various noble groups to front for them and to create obstacles for the Titanic Turners.

If you look at the nominees proposed during the Trump Transition or, in fact, look at municipal, civi, and business officers in your local area, our leaders can be grouped and understood in this way. For that matter, so can all of us.

The role of independent media should be to help generate ideas and intelligence that:

• Improve the power and performance of the Titanic Tuners,
• Make it attractive for the Pigs and Scaredy Cats to follow or even become Titanic Turners, and
• Make life exceptionally painful for the Pigs until they do.

We also need to support the general population to take responsibility to help turn the Titanic and reject the Pigs, each in our own lives and local areas.

Jon encouraged me is to describe the basic concepts of how we can do this. How do we assess who are Titanic Turners and whether or not they are acting with integrity and competence as public servants? Jon wanted me to review the basic concepts and definitions to help me explain what it means when the cost of capital starts to rise as well as why I believe there is a significant economic opportunity to rebuild America if we can turn the ship.

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Best of the Solari Report: Making Your New Year Resolutions Powerful

“The information that you share not only has changed my life but possibly even saved my life… Catherine, your site is so unique in that it not only informs us of the world as it is but helps to illuminate in how it could be. I’m writing to inform you of how the information discovered on Solari has changed my path going forward.” ~ A Solari Report Subscriber

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If there is one thing I know about Solari Report subscribers, it is that each of you is unique. That means when you focus on your new years resolutions for 2017, you will have a wide variety of interests.

To help inspire you, here are interviews with some real masters from our full Solari Report libraries with ideas to help you craft your new years resolutions:

Items marked with an asterix (*) are open to the pubic.

COMING CLEAN

Coming Clean is the name we give for cleaning the corruption out of our lives – out of our minds and spirits, our bodies, our pocketbooks and our homes.

Article: Coming Clean*

Eunice Boston is the master of how to manage your home and work spaces in a manner that will enhance their beauty, and also help nourish your spiritual and personal well being. She never ceases to amaze and inspire me – not to mention, she saved my life! She tells the story here.

Coming Clean: Transforming Lives through the Power of Cleaning*

In Coming Clean: Detox Power, Dr. Laura Thompson walks you through critical techniques to help you detox from hard times and environmental pollution.

Coming Clean: Detox Power

The health care system can be a dangerous place to be unless we provide clear legal power, authorities and directions to those who support us. This is a topic we love to avoid, but doing so can save your life or the lives of those you love – both young and old. Attorney and author Jo Kline Cebuhar makes this an easy and understandable topic in two interviews:

• Health Care Proxies

• Health Care Directives

Jo also did a great interview with me on death – a topic that is not popular in many Western cultures. That’s too bad, because sharing this passage with those we love can be a remarkable transformation for us all. As a culture, it would be wonderful if we could all come clean about our fear of death.

Managing End-of-Life

BUILDING FINANCIAL WEALTH

One of my favorite books on building wealth is Family Wealth – Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations by attorney Jay Hughes. Hughes wrote it to help wealthy families stay wealthy. However, the same practices can help you become wealthy too. Jay joined us on the Solari Report to discuss what he has learned over a lifetime of helping families manage their wealth.

Family Wealth

Sometimes the best way to build wealth is not to lose what you have. Financial fraud is a serious problem in the developed world. One of the most pernicious is Identify Theft. Top author and journalist Bob Sullivan describes what you can do to protect yourself.

Identity Theft: Avoiding It If You Can, Surviving It When You Don’t

Every Solari Report subscriber has heard me say often how important it is that they learn about the techniques used to manipulate us with digital media and electronics. Adam Trombly’s discussion with me on entrainment technology is a must

Entrainment, Subliminal Programming and Financial Manipulation

This year we started to help our readers explore how these techniques are used to market a wide number of addictions, which lead to publishing several book reviews:

• Book Review: Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction*

• Book Review: Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas*

Then of course there is our great interview with Dr. Robert Lustig about Sugar Addiction.

Sugar Addiction: Getting It, Ending It

If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, which is compromising personal health and financial wealth, it may help you to understand the powerful technology that may be involved in covertly creating and maintaining your addiction.

DEEP SURVIVAL

We are in a period of change, learning to live with rising levels of uncertainty. It helps to get out of trying to predict the future and into to creating our future. This starts with being prepared to succeed in a variety of future scenarios.

One of my favorite books and Solari Report interviews is with Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why. Gonzales interviewed people who have survived extraordinary wilderness survival experiences. He distilled the survivor lessons down into “twelve rules of survival” that are essential skills for everyone to learn and apply.

Deep Survival with Laurence Gonzales

One of the tools that I use to great the future with confidence and for investment strategy is scenario thinking. You will find our annual scenarios in the Solari Report Annual Wrap Up. This year the best scenario thinker I know joined us on the Solari Report.

Scenario Thinking with Eric Best

Well, there is lots more in the Solari Report archives if you have digested all of these. So send your questions if you are looking for something else or want more.

On behalf of the Solari Team, my best wishes for a happy, healthy prosperous 2017 for you and yours.

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Money & Markets - December 23, 2016

“Chaos is a friend of mine.” ~ Bob Dylan

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Prices for Asian equities, precious metals and US treasuries continue to fall, looking a new bottom. I expect US equities to end the year as the star performer.  The US dollar index is trading above 1o2. It could head much higher in 2017.

Here are the Thursday close charts – Set One,
Set Two, Set Three, Set Four

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