Maybe We’re Closer to ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ Than We Realize
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The Decay of Everyday Life
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Precarious: One Misfortune Away from Insolvency
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Squeezed for Decades, America’s Working Class Is Finally Up Against the Wall
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Withdrawing from the Rat Race Is Going Global
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Labor Rising: Will Class Identity Finally Matter Again?
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Cities’ ‘Doom Loops’ Are Even Worse Than You Imagined
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Is the ‘Housing Shortage’ the Result of Housing-Hoarding by the Wealthy?
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The Spear in AI’s Back
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Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don’t Be Naive
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Sound Money Vs. Fiat Currency: Trade and Credit Are the Wild Cards
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Staving Off Revolution
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What Orwell and Huxley Got Wrong and Kafka Got Right
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Fed To Offer Every Household $1 Million From Its New Discount Window
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Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future
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The Growing Rebellion Against Costly, Low-Quality, Overly-Complex Technology
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America the Snackable
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A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society
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Global Recession’s Winners and Losers
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If AI Is So Great, Why Is Managing the Digital Realm Eating Us Alive?
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Rates, Risk and Debt: The Unavoidable Reckoning Ahead
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The Pitfalls of Central Planning
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Finding, Creating (and Keeping) a Job in the Era of AI
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Digital Service Dumpster Fires and Shadow Work
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The ‘Phantom Legion’ Problem
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Irony Alert: ‘Outlawing’ Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable
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The International City Model: Freedom Is the Solution, Coercion Is the Problem
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National Self-Reliance Is On the Rise: China and the U.S.
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Self-Reliance, Taoism, and the Warring States
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What’s the Source of the Astounding 50% Boost in Corporate Profits?
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What the Fed Accomplished: Distorted the Economy, Enriched the Rich and Crushed the Middle Class
Charles Hugh Smith
2023: The Fed Declares Victory; 2024: The Year of Hubris and Nemesis
Charles Hugh Smith
Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay
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What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?
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Everyone Loves a Generous Government Until They Have to Pay For It
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The Fed’s Empire of Speculation and the Echoes of 1929
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Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?
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What Happens When Millions of Renters Can No Longer Afford High Rents and Move Back Home?
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What’s It Take To Be Middle Class Now?
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Can We Reverse America’s Distemper?
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How Much Do You Spend on Food?
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We’re Eating Our Seed Corn
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The Counterculture Everyone Forgot
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Our Neofeudal, Neocolonial World
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The Profitable Destruction of Americans’ Health
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Lowering Risk as We Enter Forced Frugality
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We Need a Change: Taylor Swift for President
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On Thin Ice
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The Many Flavors of Doom
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The Bottomless Swamp of Regulatory Capture
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