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Reimagining Our Financial Model to Serve Life Catherine Austin Fitts Solari Investment Advisors Green Phoenix Rising September 25, 2010
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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
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Imagining a Shift Central 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
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Principles of a Healthy Financial System Transparency Sound Currency Equity Positive Returns Across Sectors
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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
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Sound Currency US Dollar vs. Gold
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Gas Purchasing Power
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Rising Oil or Falling Fiat?
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Falling Dollar: US Savers Lose $19 Trillion +
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Equity Cost of Capital: Corporations vs. People Place Based vs. Corporate Equity Living vs. Financial Equity
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Where Did Small Business Equity Go? 100 small businesses & farms 2 big businesses $100,000,000 $50,000,000 $10,000,000 1-5x10-15x $10-50,000,000$100-150,000,000 90% locally owned10% and declining 100+ local owners Financially Intimate Reinvesting locally Local control, expertise 10+ local owners Committed to centralizing Declining control, exp BeforeAfter Profile Retail Sales Govt $ Profits Multiplier Local Equity Ownership, Expertise, & Control
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100 small businesses & farms $100,000,000 $50,000,000 $10,000,000 8-12x $80-120,000,000 51% locally owned 100+ local owners 1,000+ 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
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Return to the Network Return to the Investor Total Economic Return Positive Returns Across Networks
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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
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Questions & Answers Q A &
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Imagining a Financial Model to Serve Life Catherine Austin Fitts Solari Investment Advisors Green Phoenix Rising September 25, 2010
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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 Taxes My Family Budget Neighbor’s Church Media Municipality Local Venture Funds
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Does the money in your community look like this? Mom’s 401k My Bank My Kids’ School My Uncle’s Church Media Municipality Taxes My Family Budget Centralizing Institutions Large banks Large corporations US government Corporate media Oil companies Defense and other contractors Agribusiness
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Transactions Currency Credit Cards Bank Deposits Debt Purchases Government: Taxes, Contracts, Spending, Regulations Donations Investments
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The Popsicle Index 150 10,000 + Very High Low Popsicle Index Dow Jones Index 1950sNow
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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
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Overview Principles of a Healthy Financial System 1.Transparency 2.Sound Currency 3.Equity 4.Balanced Returns on All Sectors
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