News & Commentary

By Catherine Austin Fitts November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned. In last month’s

By Catherine Austin Fitts There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Courtney Subramanian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online

By Simon Kennedy Not long ago, before the financial crisis and the global recession it triggered, economists referred to Americans as the consumers of last

By Bloomberg News China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally

**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 Chris Reinhart is now leading the MicroHouse program for Open Source Ecology (OSE) full time. OSE has exciting plans for workshops

By Wikipedia Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). The €5

By The Economist A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea

By Charles Seife SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology. If there’s a gene for hubris, the