What’s Behind the Inflation Hall of Mirrors?
Charles Hugh Smith
America Has Lost the Trade War with China, But the Real Pain Has Yet To Begin
Charles Hugh Smith
America Is a Moral Cesspool, and Student Loans Prove It
Charles Hugh Smith
The $50 Trillion Plundered from Workers by America’s Aristocracy Is Trickling Back
Charles Hugh Smith
A Few Things About Reinforced Concrete High-Rise Condos
Charles Hugh Smith
America’s Social Order Is Unraveling
Charles Hugh Smith
It Always Ends the Same Way: Crisis, Crash, Collapse
Charles Hugh Smith
Increasingly Chaotic Volatility Ahead—The New Normal Few Think Possible
Charles Hugh Smith
Why Inflation Will Accelerate
Charles Hugh Smith
What’s Yours Is Now Mine: America’s Era of Accelerating Expropriation
Charles Hugh Smith
The Only Way to Get Ahead Now Is Crazy-Risky Speculation
Charles Hugh Smith
The ‘Helicopter Parent’ Fed and the Fatal Crash of Risk
Charles Hugh Smith
Is a Cultural Revolution Brewing in America?
Charles Hugh Smith
What Could Go Awry?
Charles Hugh Smith
We Don’t Need the Great Reset, We Need the Great Rebalancing
Charles Hugh Smith
The Cannibalization Is Complete: Only Inedible Zombies Remain
Charles Hugh Smith
When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally Implode?
Charles Hugh Smith
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash
Charles Hugh Smith
The Most Hopeful Scenario for 2021
Charles Hugh Smith
About Those Vaccine ID Cards…
Charles Hugh Smith
2021 Is Already Optimized for Failure
Charles Hugh Smith
Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns
Charles Hugh Smith
Here’s Our Historical Analogy Menu: Rome, the USSR, or Revolutionary France
Charles Hugh Smith
Everything Is Staged
Charles Hugh Smith
How We Institutionalized Incompetence
Charles Hugh Smith
What Could Go Wrong? Plenty
Charles Hugh Smith
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Charles Hugh Smith
The ‘ New Normal’ Is De-Normalization
Charles Hugh Smith
The Nation Is Falling into the Abyss Between Wall Street and Main Street
Charles Hugh Smith
The Sinking Titanic’s Great Pumps Finally Fail
Charles Hugh Smith
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice
Charles Hugh Smith
Forget the V, W, or L Recovery: Focus on N-P-B
Charles Hugh Smith
Unstoppable: The Greatest Depression and the Reverse Wealth Effect
By Charles Hugh Smith.
Deep State to Powell: Stop Goosing Stocks Higher or You’ll Re-Elect Trump
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
No, the Fed Will Not ‘Save the Market’—Here’s Why
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Omens, Portents, Karma, and the Mandate of Heaven
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking, and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Second-Order Effects: The Unexpectedly Slippery Path to Dow 10,000
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
No Matter How Much Money the Fed Prints, We Still Can’t Afford Nice Things
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Instability Rising: Why 2020 Will Be Different
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Just a Friendly Heads-Up, Bulls: The Fed Just Slashed its Balance Sheet
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The Fed Can’t Reverse the Decline of Financialization and Globalization
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Is This ‘The Top’?
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Grab-Bag Resolutions 2020
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
The Hour Is Getting Late
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
Are Social Media the New Tobacco?
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
A ‘Market’ Crash Is Baked In—Here’s Why
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.