Charles Hugh Smith
Articles by Charles Hugh Smith
back to columnists »Yes, Everything Crashed–Just Not For You
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/yes-everything-crashed-just-not-for-you/
10/31/2025
ZIRP or ZAP? Will the Fed’s ‘Zero-Interest Rate Policy’ Return, and Will It Work?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/zirp-or-zap-will-the-feds-zero-interest-rate-policy-return-and-will-it-work/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/27/2025
Could a Rip-Your-Face-Off Rally in the Dollar Trigger a Global Financial Crisis?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/could-a-rip-your-face-off-rally-in-the-dollar-trigger-a-global-financial-crisis/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/23/2025
The Crisis and Revolution Hidden in Plain Sight
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/the-crisis-and-revolution-hidden-in-plain-sight/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/21/2025
If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be in a Depression
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/if-we-measured-the-economy-by-quality-of-life-instead-of-gdp-wed-be-in-a-depression/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/18/2025
The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/the-year-when-everything-happens-in-no-particular-order/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/15/2025
The True Meaning of Stoicism
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/the-true-meaning-of-stoicism/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/10/2025
Look Out Below
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/look-out-below-2/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/9/2025
The Golden Age of Spectacle
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/the-golden-age-of-spectacle/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/7/2025
Will AI Crash the Economy?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/will-ai-crash-the-economy/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/3/2025
Price Doesn’t Reflect Value, and We’re Paying a Steep Price for Confusing the Two
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/charles-hugh-smith/price-doesnt-reflect-value-and-were-paying-a-steep-price-for-confusing-the-two/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/1/2025
Can Social Security Be Saved for Future Generations?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/can-social-security-be-saved-for-future-generations/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/27/2025
Money, Credit, Growth and Depression: It’s Complicated
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/money-credit-growth-and-depression-its-complicated/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/25/2025
Is This the Last Bubble?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/is-this-the-last-bubble/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/22/2025
The Moral Decay of Debt
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/the-moral-decay-of-debt/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/18/2025
Entitled, Demanding–and Shunned
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/entitled-demanding-and-shunned/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/5/2025
Labored Daze
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/charles-hugh-smith/labored-daze/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/3/2025
Our Mafioso Economy
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/our-mafioso-economy/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/29/2025
How Great Powers Fall Apart
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/how-great-powers-fall-apart/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/23/2025
AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Own Reflection
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/ai-is-a-mirror-in-which-we-see-our-own-reflection/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/20/2025
Now Comes the Hard Part
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/now-comes-the-hard-part/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/15/2025
Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/charles-hugh-smith/go-ahead-and-rage-at-boomers-but-the-problem-is-the-entire-economic-order/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/5/2025
Is the Epstein Affair a Watershed Moment?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/is-the-epstein-affair-a-watershed-moment/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/28/2025
Maybe AI Isn’t Going to Replace You at Work After All
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/maybe-ai-isnt-going-to-replace-you-at-work-after-all/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/24/2025
The Grown Up Tax Bill: Sorry, Grown-Ups Are Out of Stock
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-grown-up-tax-bill-sorry-grown-ups-are-out-of-stock/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/21/2025
Can the Developed World Grow Its Way Out of Stagnation?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/can-the-developed-world-grow-its-way-out-of-stagnation/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/18/2025
The United States of Impunity
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-united-states-of-impunity/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/16/2025
Three Choices, None Good
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/three-choices-none-good/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/15/2025
Illiquid, Overvalued
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/illiquid-overvalued/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/9/2025
To Make America Great Again, Start Here
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/to-make-america-great-again-start-here/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/7/2025
America’s ‘Healthcare’ System Is Now a Structured Financial Skim/Scam
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/americas-healthcare-system-is-now-a-structured-financial-skim-scam/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/4/2025
The No-Win Bubble ‘Wealth Effect’: Either Way We Lose
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-no-win-bubble-wealth-effect-either-way-we-lose/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/2/2025
Hollowed Out
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/charles-hugh-smith/hollowed-out/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/27/2025
Meta-Thoughts on the War
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/charles-hugh-smith/meta-thoughts-on-the-war/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/25/2025
How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/charles-hugh-smith/how-housing-bubble-2-bursts/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/21/2025
And So It Begins
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/charles-hugh-smith/and-so-it-begins/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/17/2025
Now That the Parasites Have Consumed the Host….
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/charles-hugh-smith/now-that-the-parasites-have-consumed-the-host/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/13/2025
The ‘AI Revolution’ May Take an Unexpected Turn into the ‘AI Coup’
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-ai-revolution-may-take-an-unexpected-turn-into-the-ai-coup/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/29/2025
Ours Is a System of Fraud, Swindles and Corruption
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/ours-is-a-system-of-fraud-swindles-and-corruption/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/27/2025
Boomers, Let’s Face It: The Math Doesn’t Work
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/boomers-lets-face-it-the-math-doesnt-work/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/23/2025
The Real American Dream: Starting Over
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-real-american-dream-starting-over/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/20/2025
Living on Meds, Vitamin C and Ibogaine: American Precarity
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/living-on-meds-vitamin-c-and-ibogaine-american-precarity/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/16/2025
The One Real Economic Indicator: ‘Upgrade to Premium’
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-one-real-economic-indicator-upgrade-to-premium/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/14/2025
The Potential Winners and Losers in Reshoring Supply Chains
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-potential-winners-and-losers-in-reshoring-supply-chains/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/1/2025
The Winners and Losers in 21st Century America
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/charles-hugh-smith/the-winners-and-losers-in-21st-century-america/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/29/2025
The Wile E. Coyote Recession
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/charles-hugh-smith/the-wile-e-coyote-recession/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/26/2025
What’s ‘Normal’ in a Hyper-Normalized World?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/charles-hugh-smith/whats-normal-in-a-hyper-normalized-world/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/23/2025
Trade, Tariffs, Currencies, Colonialism, the Gold Watch, and Everything
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/charles-hugh-smith/trade-tariffs-currencies-colonialism-the-gold-watch-and-everything/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/15/2025
A Decade of Headwinds
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/charles-hugh-smith/a-decade-of-headwinds/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/11/2025
Ultra-Processed Life
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/charles-hugh-smith/ultra-processed-life/
Charles Hugh Smith
3/31/2025
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- Re: ‘The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!’
- Andrew’s Latest
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- 1974 Explained: The Year that Almost Crushed Britain
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