Articles by Charles Hugh Smith

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These Are Not Signs of a Healthy Market

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9/7/2019

Will Everything Change in 2020-2025 or Will Nothing Change?

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9/6/2019

Dear Trump Advisors: Prop the Market Up Now and Lose in 2020

Or Let the Market Crash and Win in 2020. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/31/2019

The Fantasy of Central Bank ‘Growth’ Is Finally Imploding

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/29/2019

The Benefits of a Profoundly Shattering Recession

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/27/2019

Is the US Becoming a Third World Nation?

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/24/2019

A Wobbling Stock Market

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/20/2019

The Road to Hell Is Paved With Virtue-Signaling

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/16/2019

Who Protected Epstein for Decades, and Why?

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8/15/2019

The Internal War in the Deep State Claims Its High Profile Casualty:

Jeffrey Epstein. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/13/2019

Main Street Small Business on the Precipice

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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8/1/2019

Why Is What Was Once Affordable to Many

Now Only Affordable to the Wealthy? Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/30/2019

Once ‘Prosperity’ Falters

The Legitimacy of the Status Quo Evaporates. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/27/2019

It’s Not Just the News That’s Fake

Everything’s Fake, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/26/2019

Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea

How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/23/2019

The Three Ds of Doom

Debt, Default, Depression. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/19/2019

The Explosive Crisis of the Deep State

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/16/2019

‘Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?’

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/13/2019

When Everything From Bat Guano to Quatloos Is Soaring

Speculative Euphoria Has Reached an Extreme, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/9/2019

What’s Left To Monetize?

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/6/2019

Vested Interests in Charge = Guaranteed Failure

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/5/2019

America’s Concealed Crisis

Fifty Years of Economic Decline, 1969 to 2019. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/3/2019

Following in Rome’s Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Inequality

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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7/1/2019

No, Autos Are Not “Cheaper Now”

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/29/2019

Could a Cryptocurrency Become a Global Reserve Currency?

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/28/2019

The Human Cost of ‘Recovery’

We’re Burning Out, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/25/2019

The Lessons of Rome

Charles Hugh Smith on Our Neofeudal Oligarchy.

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6/24/2019

Dear Central Bankers: Prepare To Be Swept Away

in the Next Wave of Populism, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/21/2019

How Much of Your ‘Wealth’ Is Hostage to Bubbles

And Impossible Promises? Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/18/2019

Misplaced Pride

Most of the “Middle Class” Is Actually Working Class, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/15/2019

The Self-Destructive Trajectory

Of Overly Successful Empires, by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/13/2019

What Would It Take

To Spark a Rural/Small-Town Revival? Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/10/2019

The Tech Bubble

Is it bursting? Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/8/2019

A Quiet Revolution Is Brewing

But a scary one. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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6/4/2019

Forget ‘Money’

What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil, and Food—and a Shared National Purpose, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/28/2019

Superbugs and the Ultimate Economic Weapon: Food

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/25/2019

The Normalization and Institutionalization

Of Fraud. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/20/2019

Downward Mobility Matters More

Than Liberal-Conservative Labels, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/18/2019

The Economy Has Fundamentally Changed in the 21st Century

And Not for the Better. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/16/2019

Burnout Nation

Charles Hugh Smith on the US.

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5/15/2019

Unrealistically Great Expectations

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/11/2019

Good Riddance

To a “Nothing-Burger” Trade Deal, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/7/2019

The Accelerating Decay of the Middle Class

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/3/2019

The Erosion

Of Everyday Life. Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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5/1/2019

There Are Two Little Problems

With “Taxing the Rich” To Pay for “Free Everything,” says Charles Hugh Smith.

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4/30/2019

This Is the End of the Cycle

Article by Charles Hugh Smith.

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4/29/2019

America’s Forced Financial Flight

Fleeing Unaffordable and Dysfunctional Cities, by Charles Hugh Smith.

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4/23/2019

How Empires Fall

Charles Hugh Smith on moral decay.

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4/22/2019

No Fix for Recession

Without a Financial Crisis, There’s No Central Bank Policy Fix, says Charles Hugh Smith.

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4/16/2019

Assange and the Unforgivable Sin

Of Disemboweling Official Narratives, by Charles Hugh Smith.

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4/13/2019