Catherine Austin Fitts: Catherine is the president of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Catherine served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led portfolio and investment strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities.

Catherine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the Wharton School (MBA) and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She blogs for the Solari Report at solari.com.

Rough Time Codes:

1:25​ – What is Central Bank’s role? The rundown of the government’s monetary policy.

[Editor Note: Basically the governments ‘accountant’]

2:30​ – What happened when we created the central banks and what does The Art of War have to do with this?

3: 21 – Bond Market

6:42​ – Trust is built through accounting and insurance

11:02​ – Who is “Mr Global”

17:00​ – Canadian Central Bank

19:13​– How Canadian Charter Banks got started

20: 50 – Two things that historically ensure a society fails

25:00​ – Catherine tells a JP Morgan Chase story

Edited By: Rajie Kabli