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