Just A Taste: 3rd Quarter Wrap Up - News Trends & Stories Part I

“Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to “make off promptly” or to “hurry off”. The phrase originated in the 1700s as describing an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation….The phrase is used as a pejorative in political language, implying a panicked and cowardly retreat…” ~ Wikipedia

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our 3rd Quarter Wrap Up will be presented throughout October in four parts:

News Trends & Stories, Parts I and II For the next two weeks we will highlight the top news trends and stories with Dr. Joseph Farrell. This coming week in Part I, we will look at Economy and Financial Markets and Geopolitics, including a serious discussion of “cut and run” – the growing signs that insiders are pulling significant money and assets out of the US government and spinning out and cashing out of major investments and liabilities. The following week in Part II, Dr. Farrell and I will cover Science and Technology and The Big Questions. Make sure to check our web presentation for the complete listing with links of News Trends & Stories for the 3rd Quarter.

Financial Market Roundup: In the third week, we will combine a written Blockbuster Chartology from master technician Rambus with Catherine’s Equity Overview. Make sure to check our web presentation for the complete roundup of financial market charts on September 30 which will be available next week.

Theme – Investment Screening: Can We Filter for Productive Companies?- Finally, our big theme. We look at the investment screening industry and ask whether it is possible to filter for fundamentally productive companies. In August, investors in private prison companies found their stock price down by almost 50% as a result of changes in government policies. Wells Fargo stock is down 18% this year, in part because of a scandal related to falsification of accounts. As the debt-financed growth model comes to an end, investors in companies that are not fundamentally productive face a new set of risks.

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In Money & Markets this week I will discuss the latest in financial and geopolitical news, as well as my latest commentary, “Crazy Man vs. Criminal: Cut and Run, Monica Lewinsky II & Real Trouble Ahead.”

In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review The Night Manager, an adaptation of the John le Carré novel by the same name. It tells the story of a British effort to indict and prosecute a major arms trafficker. The intelligence operatives are faced with two enemies – the arms trafficker and the upper echelons of their own government, whose interests are intertwined with the lucrative trade. Tom Hiddleston is particularly brilliant in the role of the uncover agent.

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