Catherine Austin Fitts discussed the Federal Reserve, the black budget, the war on drugs, the missing trillions, and what really happened to the economy. She discussed how the "swine flue" could have been a financial hit on Mexico. She took us from the days growing up in Philadelphia and how crime grew parallel to the Dow Jones. She advocates self sufficiency and transferring of funds to local (non-Federal Reserve banks).
Catherine Austin Fitts is the Founder and President of Solari. She served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. She also served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School, and studied Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Catherine serves on the board of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and publishes a column, Mapping the Real Deal, in Scoop Media in New Zealand. She is the author of an upcoming book to be released in the fall: Financial Coup d'Etat.