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The Psychology of Inflation
Charles Hugh Smith
When Shelter Becomes a Speculative Asset, Society Unravels
Charles Hugh Smith
Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%
Charles Hugh Smith
The Peculiar Power of Denial
Charles Hugh Smith
How to Select a Town the Rich Won’t Gentrify and Ruin
Charles Hugh Smith
Here’s Why Housing Is Unaffordable for the Bottom 90%
Charles Hugh Smith
Reinventing Democracy
Charles Hugh Smith
We’re Living in a Neofeudal Bubble
Charles Hugh Smith
Airbnb Has Destroyed America’s Resort Towns
Charles Hugh Smith
Neither Comply Nor Resist
Charles Hugh Smith
The Problem Isn’t a Housing Shortage, It’s the Concentration of Ownership by the Wealthy
Charles Hugh Smith
No, Central Banks Won’t Save Us This Time
Charles Hugh Smith
I Have a Very Bad Feeling About This
Charles Hugh Smith
The Peculiar Unreality of Spectacle
Charles Hugh Smith
2021 to 2024: From ‘Revenge’ Splurging To Forced Frugality
Charles Hugh Smith
Why Rome Collapsed: Lessons for the Present
Charles Hugh Smith
I’m Not Really Enjoying the Show
Charles Hugh Smith
Fooled by What We Measure, Enlightened by What We Don’t Measure
Charles Hugh Smith
The Wealthy Are Not Like You and Me–Our Terminally Stratified Society
Charles Hugh Smith
Even the Aliens Are Boring
Charles Hugh Smith
Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization
Charles Hugh Smith
All Bubbles Pop
Charles Hugh Smith
I Keep Changing Channels But It’s Still the Same Program
Charles Hugh Smith
Everyone’s Talking About Currencies: 21 Points
Charles Hugh Smith
Lessons From the Great Depression
Charles Hugh Smith
The Two Causes of the Coming Great Depression
Charles Hugh Smith
Without Inflation, the Status Quo Collapses; With Hot Inflation, It Also Collapses
Charles Hugh Smith
All Dreams End: The Collapse of Keynesian Economics
Charles Hugh Smith
Who Wins and Who Loses in a Deep Global Recession?
Charles Hugh Smith
The Make-or-Break Fork in the Road Ahead
Charles Hugh Smith
Breaking/Broken News You Might Have Missed
Charles Hugh Smith
The Corruption of POTUS, SCOTUS and SCROTUS
Charles Hugh Smith
2023-2030: Artifice Vs. Doom-Loops
Charles Hugh Smith
This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late
Charles Hugh Smith
12 Ways To Cut the Chains of Financial Serfdom
Charles Hugh Smith
Look Around and What Do You See? Social Defeat
Charles Hugh Smith
What Happens When the Competent Opt Out?
Charles Hugh Smith
A Nation of Junkies: The Empty Future of a Stimulus-Speculation Economy
Charles Hugh Smith
Higher Unemployment Won’t Stop Wages from Rising
Charles Hugh Smith
Wages Going Up for Good: Catch-Up and Blowback
Charles Hugh Smith
Are You Ready For a Real Recession?
Charles Hugh Smith
2023: Echoes of 1973
Charles Hugh Smith
How Many Dominoes Must Topple Before One Falls on Us?
Charles Hugh Smith
What If AI Is Only a Cost and Not a Profit Bonanza?
Charles Hugh Smith
Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private
Charles Hugh Smith
Doom Loops Are Multiplying
Charles Hugh Smith
Once Trust Has Been Lost, There’s No Going Back
Charles Hugh Smith
What If the Fed Has Lost Control?
Charles Hugh Smith
Crystal Balls, Soothsayers, and AI, Oh My!
Charles Hugh Smith
What If the Whole Shebang Unravels?
Charles Hugh Smith