Charles Hugh Smith
Articles by Charles Hugh Smith
back to columnists »What’s Behind the Inflation Hall of Mirrors?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/08/charles-hugh-smith/whats-behind-the-inflation-hall-of-mirrors/
8/5/2021
America Has Lost the Trade War with China, But the Real Pain Has Yet To Begin
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/charles-hugh-smith/america-has-lost-the-trade-war-with-china-and-the-real-pain-has-yet-to-begin/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/28/2021
America Is a Moral Cesspool, and Student Loans Prove It
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/charles-hugh-smith/america-is-a-moral-cesspool-and-student-loans-prove-it/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/27/2021
The $50 Trillion Plundered from Workers by America’s Aristocracy Is Trickling Back
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-50-trillion-plundered-from-workers-by-americas-aristocracy-is-trickling-back/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/14/2021
A Few Things About Reinforced Concrete High-Rise Condos
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/charles-hugh-smith/a-few-things-about-reinforced-concrete-high-rise-condos/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/8/2021
America’s Social Order Is Unraveling
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/charles-hugh-smith/americas-social-order-is-unraveling/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/29/2021
It Always Ends the Same Way: Crisis, Crash, Collapse
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/charles-hugh-smith/it-always-ends-the-same-way-crisis-crash-collapse/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/25/2021
Increasingly Chaotic Volatility Ahead—The New Normal Few Think Possible
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/charles-hugh-smith/increasingly-chaotic-volatility-ahead-the-new-normal-few-think-possible/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/31/2021
Why Inflation Will Accelerate
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/charles-hugh-smith/why-wage-inflation-will-accelerate/
Charles Hugh Smith
5/17/2021
What’s Yours Is Now Mine: America’s Era of Accelerating Expropriation
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/charles-hugh-smith/whats-yours-is-now-mine-americas-era-of-accelerating-expropriation/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/27/2021
The Only Way to Get Ahead Now Is Crazy-Risky Speculation
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/charles-hugh-smith/the-only-way-to-get-ahead-now-is-crazy-risky-speculation/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/23/2021
The ‘Helicopter Parent’ Fed and the Fatal Crash of Risk
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/charles-hugh-smith/the-helicopter-parent-fed-and-the-fatal-crash-of-risk/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/16/2021
Is a Cultural Revolution Brewing in America?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/charles-hugh-smith/is-a-cultural-revolution-brewing-in-america/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/12/2021
What Could Go Awry?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/charles-hugh-smith/what-could-go-awry/
Charles Hugh Smith
4/9/2021
We Don’t Need the Great Reset, We Need the Great Rebalancing
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/charles-hugh-smith/we-dont-need-the-great-reset-we-need-the-great-rebalancing/
Charles Hugh Smith
3/23/2021
The Cannibalization Is Complete: Only Inedible Zombies Remain
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/charles-hugh-smith/the-cannibalization-is-complete-only-inedible-zombies-remain/
Charles Hugh Smith
3/13/2021
When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally Implode?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/charles-hugh-smith/when-does-this-travesty-of-a-mockery-of-a-sham-finally-implode/
Charles Hugh Smith
3/5/2021
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/charles-hugh-smith/the-stock-market-fatally-wounded-by-the-truth-will-stumble-and-crash/
Charles Hugh Smith
2/1/2021
The Most Hopeful Scenario for 2021
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/01/charles-hugh-smith/the-most-hopeful-scenario-for-2021/
Charles Hugh Smith
1/4/2021
About Those Vaccine ID Cards…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/charles-hugh-smith/about-those-vaccine-id-cards/
Charles Hugh Smith
12/5/2020
2021 Is Already Optimized for Failure
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/charles-hugh-smith/2021-is-already-optimized-for-failure/
Charles Hugh Smith
12/2/2020
Our Frustrations Run Far Deeper Than Covid Lockdowns
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/11/charles-hugh-smith/our-frustrations-run-far-deeper-than-covid-lockdowns/
Charles Hugh Smith
11/26/2020
Here’s Our Historical Analogy Menu: Rome, the USSR, or Revolutionary France
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/11/charles-hugh-smith/heres-our-historical-analogy-menu-rome-the-ussr-or-revolutionary-france/
Charles Hugh Smith
11/7/2020
Everything Is Staged
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/charles-hugh-smith/everything-is-staged/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/23/2020
How We Institutionalized Incompetence
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/charles-hugh-smith/how-we-institutionalized-incompetence/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/13/2020
What Could Go Wrong? Plenty
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/charles-hugh-smith/what-could-go-wrong-plenty/
Charles Hugh Smith
10/9/2020
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts into Air
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/09/charles-hugh-smith/this-is-how-it-ends-all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air/
Charles Hugh Smith
9/12/2020
The ‘ New Normal’ Is De-Normalization
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/08/charles-hugh-smith/the-new-normal-is-de-normalization/
Charles Hugh Smith
8/15/2020
The Nation Is Falling into the Abyss Between Wall Street and Main Street
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-nation-is-falling-into-the-abyss-between-wall-street-and-main-street/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/30/2020
The Sinking Titanic’s Great Pumps Finally Fail
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/charles-hugh-smith/the-sinking-titanics-great-pumps-finally-fail/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/13/2020
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/charles-hugh-smith/how-we-got-here-the-global-economys-75-year-stumble-to-the-precipice/
Charles Hugh Smith
7/6/2020
Forget the V, W, or L Recovery: Focus on N-P-B
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/06/charles-hugh-smith/forget-the-v-w-or-l-recovery-focus-on-n-p-b/
Charles Hugh Smith
6/30/2020
Unstoppable: The Greatest Depression and the Reverse Wealth Effect
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/06/charles-hugh-smith/unstoppable-the-greatest-depression-and-the-reverse-wealth-effect/
By Charles Hugh Smith.
6/11/2020
Deep State to Powell: Stop Goosing Stocks Higher or You’ll Re-Elect Trump
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/06/charles-hugh-smith/deep-state-to-powell-stop-goosing-stocks-higher-or-youll-re-elect-trump/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
6/10/2020
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-outlines-of-a-better-world-are-emerging/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
5/11/2020
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/05/charles-hugh-smith/the-pandemic-is-deepening-americas-many-divides/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
5/1/2020
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/charles-hugh-smith/the-global-repricing-of-assets-cant-be-stopped/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
3/20/2020
No, the Fed Will Not ‘Save the Market’—Here’s Why
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/charles-hugh-smith/no-the-fed-will-not-save-the-market-heres-why/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
2/26/2020
Omens, Portents, Karma, and the Mandate of Heaven
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/charles-hugh-smith/omens-portents-karma-and-the-mandate-of-heaven/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
2/21/2020
The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking, and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/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.
2/20/2020
Second-Order Effects: The Unexpectedly Slippery Path to Dow 10,000
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/charles-hugh-smith/second-order-effects-the-unexpectedly-slippery-path-to-dow-10000/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
2/1/2020
No Matter How Much Money the Fed Prints, We Still Can’t Afford Nice Things
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/no-matter-how-much-money-the-fed-prints-we-still-cant-afford-nice-things/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/18/2020
Instability Rising: Why 2020 Will Be Different
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/instability-rising-why-2020-will-be-different/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/16/2020
Just a Friendly Heads-Up, Bulls: The Fed Just Slashed its Balance Sheet
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/just-a-friendly-heads-up-bulls-the-fed-just-slashed-its-balance-sheet/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/14/2020
The Fed Can’t Reverse the Decline of Financialization and Globalization
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/the-fed-cant-reverse-the-decline-of-financialization-and-globalization/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/11/2020
Is This ‘The Top’?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/is-this-the-top/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/8/2020
Grab-Bag Resolutions 2020
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/grab-bag-resolutions-2020/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/2/2020
The Hour Is Getting Late
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/charles-hugh-smith/the-hour-is-getting-late/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
1/1/2020
Are Social Media the New Tobacco?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/12/charles-hugh-smith/is-social-media-the-new-tobacco/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
12/30/2019
A ‘Market’ Crash Is Baked In—Here’s Why
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/12/charles-hugh-smith/a-market-crash-is-baked-in-heres-why/
Article by Charles Hugh Smith.
12/28/2019
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