Charles Hugh Smith, Author at LewRockwell

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Extremes Become More Extreme, Then Revert to the Mean

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/charles-hugh-smith/extremes-become-more-extreme-then-revert-to-the-mean/

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1/21/2025

Is Placing a Wager in a Casino an ‘Investment’?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/charles-hugh-smith/is-placing-a-wager-in-a-casino-an-investment/

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1/20/2025

What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/charles-hugh-smith/what-if-tech-the-market-and-the-state-are-no-longer-solutions/

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1/16/2025

I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/charles-hugh-smith/i-quit-the-tsunami-of-burnout-few-see/

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1/10/2025

Too Big to Care and the Illusion of Choice

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/01/charles-hugh-smith/too-big-to-care-and-the-illusion-of-choice/

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1/2/2025

What If Solutions That Worked in the Past No Longer Fix What’s Broken?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/what-if-solutions-that-worked-in-the-past-no-longer-fix-whats-broken/

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12/28/2024

A Christmas Gift From Marcus Aurelius

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/a-christmas-gift-from-marcus-aurelius/

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12/26/2024

The Core Skill Going Forward: Frugality

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/the-core-skill-going-forward-frugality/

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12/23/2024

The Economy Has Failed the American People, But It’s Taboo To Say Why

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/the-economy-has-failed-the-american-people-but-its-taboo-to-say-why/

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12/20/2024

All Three Pillars Holding Up the Economy Have Cracked

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/all-three-pillars-holding-up-the-economy-have-cracked/

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12/18/2024

Truth, Beauty and the Unseen Craftsperson

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/truth-beauty-and-the-unseen-craftsperson/

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12/16/2024

Grey Swans Are Circling

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/grey-swans-are-circling/

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12/14/2024

The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/charles-hugh-smith/the-big-shining-lie-were-better-off-now-no-were-poorer-much-poorer/

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12/13/2024

‘Superheroes’ Reflect Our Powerlessness

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/superheroes-reflect-our-powerlessness/

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11/27/2024

The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/the-cure-for-what-ails-us-market-crash-and-mass-defaults/

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11/21/2024

The Cost of Owning a Home Is Soaring

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/the-cost-of-owning-a-home-is-soaring/

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11/13/2024

The Limits of Government

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/the-limits-of-government/

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11/8/2024

Central Planning: China’s Miracle–and Malaise

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/central-planning-chinas-miracle-and-malaise/

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11/6/2024

Is Social Media Actually ‘Media,’ Or Is It Something Else?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/11/charles-hugh-smith/is-social-media-actually-media-or-is-it-something-else/

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11/1/2024

A Contrarian Clarification of “Free Speech”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/a-contrarian-clarification-of-free-speech/

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10/28/2024

All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/all-the-worlds-a-stage-everything-is-fake/

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10/25/2024

17 Indicators of Global Recession Are Clanging

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/17-indicators-of-global-recession-are-clanging/

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10/23/2024

Can We Rein in the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/can-we-rein-in-the-excesses-of-financialization-without-crashing-the-economy/

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10/17/2024

When Did Our Institutions Lose Our Trust?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/when-did-our-institutions-lose-our-trust/

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10/12/2024

Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/social-trust-its-not-warm-and-fuzzy-its-the-money-honey/

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10/10/2024

Adapt or Die, Or…?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/adapt-or-die-or/

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10/8/2024

Why Political ‘Solutions’ Don’t Fix Crises, They Make Them Worse

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/why-political-solutions-dont-fix-crises-they-make-them-worse/

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10/4/2024

Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/charles-hugh-smith/ahead-lies-ruin-the-decay-of-social-trust/

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10/2/2024

So the Economy Now Depends on Stocks Which Depend on Front-Running the Fed–And This Is Fine?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/charles-hugh-smith/so-the-economy-now-depends-on-stocks-which-depend-on-front-running-the-fed-and-this-is-fine/

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9/28/2024

What’s Changed? What’s Different This Time?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/charles-hugh-smith/whats-changed-whats-different-this-time/

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9/27/2024

2024, A Year of No Significance

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/charles-hugh-smith/2024-a-year-of-no-significance/

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9/19/2024

When Local Newspapers Close, We Lose What Matters: Journalism

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/charles-hugh-smith/when-local-newspapers-close-we-lose-what-matters-journalism/

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9/13/2024

The La-La-Land Fairy Tale of a “Soft Landing”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/charles-hugh-smith/the-la-la-land-fairy-tale-of-a-soft-landing/

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9/2/2024

Success Is a Trap

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/success-is-a-trap/

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8/30/2024

We’ve Left the Bottom 60% in the Dust, but Never Mind: S&P500 to 6000!

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/weve-left-the-bottom-60-in-the-dust-but-never-mind-sp500-to-6000/

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8/27/2024

You Say You Want a Revolution

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-5/

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8/22/2024

The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/the-super-wealthy-have-a-problem/

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8/17/2024

There’s Just One Problem: AI Isn’t Intelligent, and That’s a Systemic Risk

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/theres-just-one-problem-ai-isnt-intelligent-and-thats-a-systemic-risk/

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8/10/2024

The Anti-Consumers

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/the-anti-consumers/

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8/7/2024

The Great Unwinding: Is There Any Way to Come Out Ahead?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/08/charles-hugh-smith/the-great-unwinding-is-there-any-way-to-come-out-ahead/

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8/3/2024

The Rollercoaster Ride Ahead: 15 Years of Extreme Distortions Will Be Unwound

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-rollercoaster-ride-ahead-15-years-of-extreme-distortions-will-be-unwound/

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7/31/2024

The Downside of Complacency: Illiquidity Evaporates Stocks and Real Estate

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-downside-of-complacency-illiquidity-evaporates-stocks-and-real-estate/

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7/27/2024

Two Tidbits of Timeless Political Wisdom from Machiavelli

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/two-tidbits-of-timeless-political-wisdom-from-machiavelli/

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7/23/2024

Twisters on the Horizon: Is This Decade a Re-Make of ‘That 70s Show’?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/twisters-on-the-horizon-is-this-decade-a-re-make-of-that-70s-show/

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7/22/2024

No Reform or Leader Is Going to Save the Status Quo–We’re on Our Own

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/no-reform-or-leader-is-going-to-save-the-status-quo-were-on-our-own/

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7/9/2024

Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/move-over-disaster-capitalism-make-room-for-addiction-capitalism-2/

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7/3/2024

Move Over, Disaster Capitalism–Make Room for Addiction Capitalism

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/charles-hugh-smith/move-over-disaster-capitalism-make-room-for-addiction-capitalism/

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7/2/2024

10 Geopolitical / Financial Risks to the Global Economy

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/charles-hugh-smith/10-geopolitical-financial-risks-to-the-global-economy/

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6/28/2024

So Sorry, But Every Inch of You Is Toxic

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/charles-hugh-smith/so-sorry-but-every-inch-of-you-is-toxic/

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6/26/2024

The Glue Binding Democracy and a Free Economy Has Melted

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/charles-hugh-smith/the-glue-binding-democracy-and-a-free-economy-has-melted/

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6/20/2024