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Reimagining Our Financial Model to Serve Life
Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari Investment
AdvisorsGreen Phoenix
RisingSeptember 25,
2010
Financial Earth
The Red Button Story
Financial Earth
•Strong Dollar Policy•GATT/WTO•Global Pump & Dump•Missing $ & Bailouts•Ecological Devastation•Depopulation•Slow Burn & Global Taxation
Imagining a ShiftCentral Banking-Warfare
• Centralizing/Corporate• Wealth Shrinking• Secrecy of Government
Funds; The Black Budget• Centralized Fiat Currency• Debt• Negative Return on
Government Investment• War; Organized Crime• Technology Hoarding
A New Model
• Decentralizing/Entrepreneur
• Wealth Building• Transparency of
Government Funds• Global & Local Currencies• Equity • Positive Return Across All
Sectors• Peace; Lawful • Integration of Technology
Principles of a Healthy Financial System
•Transparency•Sound Currency•Equity•Positive Returns Across Sectors
Transparency
• What is Your Ecosystem?• What is Your Financial Ecosystem?• How does It Equate to Your Representative
Governments?• Your Transactions: Where Does Your Money Go?• Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation• Can We “See” Clean & Dirty Players?• Transparency = Enforcement of Law
Sound CurrencyUS Dollar vs. Gold
Gas Purchasing Power
Rising Oil or Falling Fiat?
Falling Dollar: US Savers Lose $19 Trillion +
Equity
•Cost of Capital: Corporations vs. People
•Place Based vs. Corporate Equity
•Living vs. Financial Equity
Where Did Small Business Equity Go?
100 small businesses
& farms 2 big businesses
$100,000,000 $100,000,000
$50,000,000 $50,000,000
$10,000,000 $10,000,000
1-5x 10-15x
$10-50,000,000 $100-150,000,000
90% locally owned 10% and declining
100+ local owners• Financially Intimate• Reinvesting locally
• Local control, expertise
10+ local owners •Committed to
centralizing•Declining control, exp
Before After
Profile
Retail Sales
Govt $
Profits
Multiplier
Local Equity
Ownership, Expertise, & Control
100 small businesses
& farms $100,000,000
$50,000,000
$10,000,000
8-12x
$80-120,000,000
51% locally owned
100+ local owners1,000+ local
investors• Financially Intimate• Reinvesting locally
• Local control, expertise
• Alignment of local/global
Now
Profile
Retail Sales
Govt $
Profits
Multiplier
Local Equity
Ownership, Expertise, & Control
What does a financially intimate community look like?
Decentralizing the financial equity of a place
$30,000,000 capital gains locally for small business owners,
individual investors, and Solari circles
Return to theNetwork
Return to the
Investor
Total Economic Return
Positive Returns Across Networks
What Do I Do Next?
• Withdraw from Central Banking-Warfare Model• Invest in the Real Economy & Strategic Resources - Around You - That You Use: Ex. Food - Disintermediate & Simplify - Support Young Entrepreneurs• Build Financial Intimacy• Organize: Solari Circles• Organize: Community & Technology Venture Funds• Organize: Local Enforcement
Questions & Answers
Q A &
Imagining a Financial Model to Serve Life
Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari Investment
AdvisorsGreen Phoenix
RisingSeptember 25,
2010
Financially Intimate Water Food Education Independent Media Diversified Business Renewable Energy Infrastructure Local Currencies
Mom’s 401k
Local Bank
My Kids’ School
Could the money in our communities look like this?
Solari Circles
TaxesMy Family
Budget
Neighbor’s Church
Media
Municipality
Local Venture Funds
Does the money in your community
look like this?
Mom’s 401k
My Bank
My Kids’ School
My Uncle’s
Church
Media
Municipality
TaxesMy Family
Budget
Centralizing Institutions Large banks Large corporations US government Corporate media Oil companies Defense and other contractors Agribusiness
Transactions
• Currency• Credit Cards• Bank Deposits • Debt• Purchases• Government: Taxes, Contracts, Spending,
Regulations• Donations• Investments
The Popsicle Index
150 10,000 +
Very High Low Popsicle Index
Dow Jones Index
1950s Now
The Popsicle Index is the % of people in a community who believe that a child can leave their home, go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle (ice cream) and come home alone safely.
POPSICLE INDEX
Overview
Principles of a Healthy Financial System
1. Transparency2. Sound Currency3. Equity4. Balanced Returns on All Sectors