Coffee and a Mike Catherine Austin Fitts #1342
Mar 27, 2026
Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and publisher of The Solari Report, speaks on financial geopolitics and the rise of digital control systems. She covers Iran and liquidity warfare, risks facing Israel, COVID 2.0 and a financial reset, food and fertilizer vulnerabilities, and how programmable money and bitcoin factor into a global control grid.
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Surfing Unpredictable Global Change
- Catherine Austin Fitts treats rapid global change like a surfable phenomenon and studies it daily to see around the corner.
- She leverages a global subscriber intelligence network and investment-banker training to spot operational patterns and emergent risks.
Bar Management Taught Team Balance
- Fitts recounts managing a two-person bar and tracking revenues to show how gender balance doubled nightly house takings.
- She used the same principle in investment banking: mixed-sex teams produced far better client outcomes.
Being Booted Opened New Doors
- Fitts describes saying no to a Department of Justice settlement in 1998 and being effectively expelled from the establishment.
- That exile opened grassroots networks and alternative knowledge that she now considers the best thing that happened to her.
