Grey Swans Are Circling
Charles Hugh Smith
The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer
Charles Hugh Smith
‘Superheroes’ Reflect Our Powerlessness
Charles Hugh Smith
The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults
Charles Hugh Smith
The Cost of Owning a Home Is Soaring
Charles Hugh Smith
The Limits of Government
Charles Hugh Smith
Central Planning: China’s Miracle–and Malaise
Charles Hugh Smith
Is Social Media Actually ‘Media,’ Or Is It Something Else?
Charles Hugh Smith
A Contrarian Clarification of “Free Speech”
Charles Hugh Smith
All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake
Charles Hugh Smith
17 Indicators of Global Recession Are Clanging
Charles Hugh Smith
Can We Rein in the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?
Charles Hugh Smith
When Did Our Institutions Lose Our Trust?
Charles Hugh Smith
Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey
Charles Hugh Smith
Adapt or Die, Or…?
Charles Hugh Smith
Why Political ‘Solutions’ Don’t Fix Crises, They Make Them Worse
Charles Hugh Smith
Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust
Charles Hugh Smith
So the Economy Now Depends on Stocks Which Depend on Front-Running the Fed–And This Is Fine?
Charles Hugh Smith
What’s Changed? What’s Different This Time?
Charles Hugh Smith
2024, A Year of No Significance
Charles Hugh Smith
When Local Newspapers Close, We Lose What Matters: Journalism
Charles Hugh Smith
The La-La-Land Fairy Tale of a “Soft Landing”
Charles Hugh Smith
Success Is a Trap
Charles Hugh Smith
We’ve Left the Bottom 60% in the Dust, but Never Mind: S&P500 to 6000!
Charles Hugh Smith
You Say You Want a Revolution
Charles Hugh Smith
The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem
Charles Hugh Smith
There’s Just One Problem: AI Isn’t Intelligent, and That’s a Systemic Risk
Charles Hugh Smith
The Anti-Consumers
Charles Hugh Smith
The Great Unwinding: Is There Any Way to Come Out Ahead?
Charles Hugh Smith
The Rollercoaster Ride Ahead: 15 Years of Extreme Distortions Will Be Unwound
Charles Hugh Smith
The Downside of Complacency: Illiquidity Evaporates Stocks and Real Estate
Charles Hugh Smith
Two Tidbits of Timeless Political Wisdom from Machiavelli
Charles Hugh Smith
Twisters on the Horizon: Is This Decade a Re-Make of ‘That 70s Show’?
Charles Hugh Smith
No Reform or Leader Is Going to Save the Status Quo–We’re on Our Own
Charles Hugh Smith
Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism
Charles Hugh Smith
Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism
Charles Hugh Smith
10 Geopolitical / Financial Risks to the Global Economy
Charles Hugh Smith
So Sorry, But Every Inch of You Is Toxic
Charles Hugh Smith
The Glue Binding Democracy and a Free Economy Has Melted
Charles Hugh Smith
Prepare for the Repricing of Risk Globally
Charles Hugh Smith
How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough To Buy the Boomers’ Millions of Unaffordable Bungalows?
Charles Hugh Smith
If AI Is So Great, Prove It: Eliminate All Surveillance, Spam and Robocalling
Charles Hugh Smith
Having Too Much Money Leads to Catastrophe
Charles Hugh Smith
The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear
Charles Hugh Smith
Is Hyper-Inflation That Destroys a Currency a ‘Solution’?
Charles Hugh Smith
Is Anyone Else’s Life as Stupidly Complicated by Digital ‘Shadow Work’ as Mine Is?
Charles Hugh Smith
Maybe We’re Closer to ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ Than We Realize
Charles Hugh Smith
The Decay of Everyday Life
Charles Hugh Smith
Precarious: One Misfortune Away from Insolvency
Charles Hugh Smith
Squeezed for Decades, America’s Working Class Is Finally Up Against the Wall
Charles Hugh Smith