55 The Real Game of Missing Money Advisory Services, LLC developed investment screens, which we continued after shutting down our individual advisory business in 2018. With my commitment to spend time in California behind me, I continued to spend time in the heartland of the United States and began spending more time in Europe and Asia. My investment screens and The Solari Report would benefit from more on-the-ground intelligence globally. The way I can best understand what is happening in an economy is by moving around inside of it. Whenever I am criticized for spending too much time outside of the United States, I try to explain that the dividing line in this stuggle is between human and inhuman. I am, first and foremost, for humanity. For humans to achieve and maintain a human civilization on our planet, this will involve all of us. For much of this period, there was nothing more to say about money that was going missing. HUD continued to refuse to publish its undocumentable adjustments. Occasionally, someone would nail DOD for failing—yet again—to produce an audit. However, what else could you say? There were trillions missing. Most people did not consider the story relevant to their lives. And then the financials for fiscal 2015 were published. DOD had undocumentable adjustments of $6.5 trillion—by a multiple of three times, their biggest annual adjustments yet. HUD, silent since fiscal 1999, ‘fessed up to $278.5 billion of undocumentable adjustments for fiscal 2015. What was particularly shocking was that Lockheed Martin, lead supplier of payment and infor- mation systems to DOD, spun its IT division out to Leidos after fiscal 2015 ended and before the financial statements were published. This inspired me to publish a comment on The Solari Report on August 15th, “Lockheed Cuts and Runs” (https://home.solari.com/lockheed-cuts- runs/). I then started to speak and comment regularly on what was now $12-plus trillion missing from HUD and DOD and tried to get the issue injected into the campaign discussions. Congres- sional races are an ideal time for Americans to press their representatives on this topic. I was in the Netherlands the night of the 2016 presidential election. I initially was appalled at the idea of Donald Trump being considered a serious candidate for the Republican nomination. As Don Coxe so wisely put it, the Presidency of the United States is not an entry-level position. However, Trump worked hard on his campaign and seemed to listen and learn. The choice came down to Hillary Clinton and Trump. When Trump threatened to have Clinton jailed during one of the debates, I decided I would vote for Trump and donate to his campaign. The person who persuaded me of the soundness of this decision was Michael Moore, who stated in his presenta- tion before the election that Trump’s election would be the biggest “F**k You” in recorded his- tory. I realized that if a system has a negative return on investment, and everything that has been tried to fix it has failed, you might as well break it. If Trump could not recruit a team that could fix it, he might break it. Whatever happened, it would be better than Hillary Clinton. If a society continues to support the organized crime that is destroying it, there is no hope. No matter how slim, Trump offered some hope. Immediately after the election, I stopped in Dublin on the way back from Europe to the United States. As I had breakfast in my hotel, I read a wide selection of newspapers from around the world. The outpouring of shock regarding the election underscored that there was very little un- derstanding of why Trump had won and of the deeper economic and policy issues at work. I took a deep breath and decided I would explain the “real deal” on the election. I wrote The Productivity Backlash. I strongly recommend it to you if you do not yet understand what is Solari Report the BY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS / 3RD QUARTER WRAP UP VOLUME 2016 / NUMBER FOUR INVESTMENT SCREENING: Can We Filter for Productive Companies?