90 The Missing Money I started writing about the “missing money” in the year 2000 when my attorney discovered reports of enormous “undocumented adjust- ments” at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. More recently, I have mentioned money that went missing from the US Department of Defense during fiscal year 2015. • Solari: The Missing Money • DOD and HUD Missing Money: Support- ing Documentation • DOD IG Report on the FY2015 DOD Financials • Crazy Man Versus Criminal: Cut and Run, Monica Lewinsky II & Real Trouble Ahead • Missing Money: Supporting Documenta- tion • The Missing Money • More on the Missing Money • The Financial Coup d’État & Missing Money • WhereistheMoney.org Mr. Global • Will The Real Mr. Global Please Stand Up? • Book Review: Tracking Mr. Global by Thomas Hupp • Precious Metals Market Report – Mr. Global’s Squeeze Play Planet Debt History shows us that using standing armies to achieve one’s objectives via force can be very costly. In contrast, ensnaring populations in legal and financial mechanisms that serve the empire (enforced by the local aristocracy) is preferable: it is more efficient and less costly. Debt and financial arrangements are far more effective tools of projecting power and cen- tralizing control than are the use of force and standing armies. • 1st Quarter Wrap Up 2015: Planet Debt • 1st Quarter Wrap Up 2015: Web Presenta- tion Planet Equity The global equity markets have grown by $60 trillion over the last 25 years, from approxi- mately $11 trillion to $70 trillion. Some of this growth has come from debasement of global currencies. As more money is printed, the value of stocks goes up while the currency in which they are denominated loses value – but not because corporate profits have risen or compa- nies are worth more. Indeed, one of the reasons why predictions of hyperinflation (as a result of expansionary monetary policy) have not mate- rialized is because this securitization process is soaking up a great deal of excess liquidity. • Annual Wrap Up 2014: Planet Equity • Annual Wrap Up 2014: Planet Equity, Web Presentation The Popsicle Index I conceived the notion of the Popsicle Index while serving in the first Bush administra- tion. I was looking for a “mechanism” to help community members collaborate in a manner that would optimize their collective well-being and generate the highest emotional intelligence while doing so. After various iterations, I chose a popsicle as the object to be sourced by a child who was free to walk to the nearest location to access something children like to eat (inspired by Neal Pierce’s description of a child’s “room to roam” during the early 1990s). I used the expression through- out the 1990s as I was working on community venture funds. I found it to be an invaluable tool for encouraging conversations within a community. It was always remarkable to watch children and parents discover their enormously different perceptions of the local Popsicle Index (or men and women). I would see their “Ah ha!” moments as they discussed cost-effective actions and changes that would positively im- pact their Popsicle Index. • Commentary: The Popsicle Index • A Conversation About the Popsicle Index • Solari Report 2nd Quarter Wrap Up 2016: Productivity, Prosperity, & the Popsicle Index 1 Solari Report the “Invasive digital computing and telecommunications combined with artificial intelligence have made it possible for large global lenders to use debt in combination with other tools of economic warfare to govern and harvest at an individual level.” BY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS / 1ST QUARTER WRAP UP VOLUME 2015 / NUMBER TWO Building Trust Between People, Places & Money Solari Report the BY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS / 2ND QUARTER WRAP UP VOLUME 2016 / NUMBER THREE PRODUCTIVITY, PROSPERITY & THE P PSICLE INDEX V. SOLARI CORE CONCEPTS