Month: February 2014

**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!**

**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

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

**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

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Joshua Lott By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured

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

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

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