On Speeches, Lectures, and Workshops

"Your talk last night was fascinating and filled that missing piece for me regarding our financial systems and investing. I am very grateful you were able to come to Portland."

"[Catherine] knows as much as any one person about the-really-heavy stuff that's going down in this fair land, and from the inside-out and way-down deep."

"Acting on a friend's suggestion, I attended a Catherine Austin Fitts speaking engagement in Ashland, Oregon. I was completely enraptured by the information she presented, and by her delivery of it. It would not be an exaggeration to say that what I learned in her lectures and workshop that weekend amounted to a paradigm shift in my perspective about the past, present and future of the U.S. government, U.S. economy, and U.S. markets. Listening to Catherine inspired me to begin an educational effort that is ongoing. She has a way of elucidating her audience on subjects and issues about which most citizens are deliberately kept ignorant, and she does so in a way that energizes and encourages. She casts a bright light on the map to a beautiful new world."

"Illahee tends to attract a steady crowd of very intelligent and action-oriented people on a regular basis and tonight's audience for Catherine Austin Fitts was no exception, given that Fitts is a highly intelligent and action oriented person in her own right. She presented to a highly receptive audience which by the end was asking poignantly direct questions about the nature and timing of the USA's dollar decline."

"I want to thank you again for a riveting presentation yesterday in Reading. As kids say, you rule! you rock!"

"If you want to check out real economic populism, check out Catherine Austin Fitts."

"I feel encouraged, inspired, and empowered—no small gift."

On "Navigate the Falling Dollar" Lecture and Video

"Remarkable and full of humanity and common sense, what is most missing in this...society. I have followed Solari for quite some time and found everything Catherine says very coherent."

"I found this of great value, helping me to understand money in a new and deeper way."

"Real great insight from a Wall Street insider [on] how to protect your wealth."

"Finally, [someone] who is concerned with the quality of life for humans and with environmental health. [Someone] who speaks about the reality of "tapeworm economics" we are living with in the U.S., and how we can educate ourselves and take action to make positive changes."

"This [presentation] is one of the most honest overviews of the situation facing all people with regard to market forces and how we interact economically."

"Thank you, Catherine, for being a bearer of a torch that burns brightly, and gives us something better to believe in and gives us back our power."

"Thanks for all your hope, dedication to humanity and efforts to make a positive change. It's exactly what I needed to break out of my cycle of fear and anger..."

"Excellent, superb presentation..."

"Smart lady. Some hope in a grim landscape."

"Listen and [take] action now or be prepared to lose it all..."

On Radio Shows

"AT LAST! A breakthrough! The truth! Solutions! I'm not alone! You are there with the truth. I have been lied to my whole life by nearly everyone and could not pinpoint or pull out the contradictions until recently. For years I've tried to alert those around me that "they" in our government are using us and tightening the screws, but had no cold facts. How wonderful you are. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"I have been listening to Coast on and off for 7 years and I have never enjoyed a guest more."

Message left by a trucker on Catherine's answering machine at 2am "I just finished listening to you on the radio. Darlin' you made my day. Scratch that. You made my year!"

"Mind-boggling stuff."

"I just wanted to take a minute to commend your extremely enlightening interview with Jim Puplava [of Financial Sense Newshour] on 'America's Black Budget and Manipulation of Markets'. I'm going to read it a few times to make sure I absorb all you mentioned particularly about the how our political economy has turned into a huge wealth transfer mechanism."

"Working to transcribe this weekend's Puplava FSO interview with Catherine Austin Fitts. An exceptional interview...I was expecting a powerful interview from Fitts, and IMO she did not disappoint."

"My Dad and I were driving to Philly to pick up my son, who is home on leave from San Diego. He is in the Navy, will be deployed on May 7, and when my Dad picked me up ... this morning to drive to the airport, he was listening to Catherine on Coast to Coast. We were so intrigued, I found 3 different stations to listen to the broadcast and switched between them as the reception faded on one, we tuned into the next. He didn't know who she was, but loved everything she was talking about. At 4am, all I could remember was Solari and Catherine.

"I keep your CD "Enron: Anatomy of a Cover Up" on my bedside table."

"U R a treasure trove of love, humanity, and just a downright great gal..."

Radio show host to co-host immediately after Catherine signs off: "Well, she really took the sheets off of the bed!"

On Solari Audio Seminars

"Like all true originals, you cannot place her...she is an artist whose medium is money."

"I am struck by your fluency...your giftedness in the subject matter at hand, which happens to be finance."

"I listen to your CDs all the time. I really like just carrying your voice around with me."

"When my professors start to push the "official story," I no longer get frustrated. I just put in my MP3 player ear plugs and listen to your audio seminars and smile."

"The fact of the matter is I've been so 'pumped-up' from listening to you speak the Truth, about the corruption which goes on behind the scenes at the expense and ignorance of average Americans, that I just keep listening to the CD's over, and over, and over in an attempt to absorb all I can."

"First and foremost, I LOVE all your audio seminars. You are the first person I've seen that has helped me understand the REAL micro and macro economics happening in our country today."

"I want to thank you so much for caring enough to share what you know for the betterment of humanity."

On solari.com

"Financial markets bypass the innovative potential of rural America. The Ethanol bubble aside, there is very little money available to support the kind of innovation that built America’s wealth. Automobiles, airplanes, tractors, washing machines and even paper bags and canning came about because of rural innovation. This innovation grew out of a tinkering class paying close attention to solving practical problems. There is little to support such innovation in rural America today. From my view as a life-long tinkerer, the financial markets no longer reflect wealth creation through practical problem solving. Rather it seems to me (with derivitives and hedge funds and stock buy backs) to be about manipulation of markets in which small percentage gains on huge sums make a few manipulators very rich without supporting the fundamental innovation that is needed for sustainable wealth creation. The last bit of hope for me is that there are still people like Catherine Fitts around who command a place on the trading floor who can speak truth to the manipulators."

"A wise and courageous woman who has risked her own well-being to tell truths that every American needs to know about our betrayal at the hands of those who would lead us. A true patriot and sign of hope for us all."

"Catherine Austin Fitts takes a holistic approach to economics and offers a solution to the ills of the economy that is brilliant in its daring and simplicity."

"The Spirit of Truth is all over you."

"I believe that Solari principles will be the ethos of the future."

"I followed the link to the Solari site and feel fortunate that there's a community dedicated to building a better future. I'm choosing to be part of the solution that brings balance back into the world deeply rooted in abundance, inspiration, love, joy, and hope."

"Thank you. You hit it home."

On Dillon, Read and Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits

"This woman is the real deal. She saw it from the inside and the insiders tried to destroy her. Its so refreshing to read her stuff. I've heard about all this before but never had it articulated so intelligently. She uncovers it all."

"Now I sincerely hope that you have read this far, and simply didn't go click [to her Dillon Read story]. Only because for all intents and purposes, this is a real life Matrix movie moment: Whereby, by virtue of clicking onto her site and reading the piece you will in effect be taking the red pill..."

"You may never view mainstream business (at least in the USA) the same way again if you make it to the end of this story."

"This [story] is hair-raising, chilling, astounding, gobsmacking..."

"I have read few documents that have said so much and made so much sense."

"Fascinating..."

"This is one of the most soul-inspiring readings I have come across..."

"This is a rather long article we are linking to, but it is a well-written expo of immense import and Earth-shaking proportions. The length is most certainly justified by the depth of information provided and the nature of what is revealed. I assure you that, after reading it over, ...your views about the higher echelons of our society, culture, and government will lay scorched with the illuminations provided in one, fell swoop. The ramifications assure no turning back."

"I am just so relieved in a way to have found you. You restore my sense of reality. You demonstrate in detail what I have long suspected. How shameful that so many participate at the level you achieved and so few break the rule of "Omerta." I was raised Catholic and taught the way of the cross. Comes the moment of truth, most toss a pinch of incense on Caesar's altar. Very few choose the way of the cross, to bear witness. As such you are a conduit of the holy for the rest of us. The holy spirit, if you will. In your work and testimony, I sense its movements and it calls to me too. As it might call your trucker friends, farmers, and someday many, many of us. Thank you."

"This is an excellent read by Catherine Austin Fitts. It will give excellent insight as to what is wrong in America today."

"It's certainly an important read for anyone who wants to try to understand what the hell's going on."

"Your story ....was a delight and most impressive. My emotions ran quite the wide gamut while reading it...A doff of the chapeau & flourish of my cape in your direction for holding your position so very well."

"She talks straight talk. And, in my opinion, she is an economic genius."

On TV and Documentaries

"Tonight after I set up a PC media center and projection screen for the company I work for, I added a link to "Freedom to Fascism"....This evening, after I got it all linked up, I tested it out....Several men are in there watching it (you) now that I could not reach and wake up. The mind control jack of the matrix was unplugged. I saw the lights go on. I want to THANK YOU for sticking your neck out, taking the effort and time to appear on that file. You did a great job, communicated things well. People will not listen sometimes to someone they know....but when they see someone more educated, more experienced and from a position such as yours, it has a different and positive/productive effect."

On Private Presentations

"I am stunned and delighted. My word, am I proud to know you. May you live long and prosper....I had not thought God was still making people like you. You have shifted the foundations of my thinking...Thank you very much."

"A few years ago, I...asked your opinion about gold. Rather prescient, weren't you? The price has almost doubled."

On a private presentation on creating standards for ethical investment in natural resources: "I fully admire the way that you're able to crisscross economics, then leap several strata of social and political theory at one time; seemingly with complete ease. It's one thing to narrate the demise of our once-great system and describe its current, tragic state. It's an achievement of an entirely different order to use your knowledge and expertise to build out the facts, then move beyond them."

"Catherine Austin Fitts is, in the truest sense of the word, an American heroine."