The UFO/Fed Connection
By Charles Hugh Smith Perhaps the aliens’ keen interest in Earth’s central bank magic and its potential for destruction results from a wager. You’ve probably…
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Stimulus Addiction Disorder: The Debt-Disposable Earnings Pyramid
By Charles Hugh-Smith One glance at this chart explains why the status quo is locked on “run to fail” and will implode in a spectacular…
The Global Financial Endgame in Fourteen Points
By Charles Hugh Smith The over-indebted, overcapacity global economy can only generate speculative asset bubbles that will implode, destroying the latest round of phantom collateral….
The Most Hopeful Scenario for 2021
By Charles Hugh Smith Choose wisely, America, or the options for a positive outcome will vanish like mist in Death Valley on a clear July…
“The Great Reset” Already Happened
By Charles Hugh Smith Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The…
The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize
By Charles Hugh Smith Clearly, the Fed reckons the public is foolish enough to believe the Fed’s money will actually be “free.” It’s pretty much…
How We Institutionalized Incompetence
By Charles Hugh Smith And so we face the ultimate irony: ‘bailing-out-everything’ destroys the entire rotten system. You’ve probably noticed things no longer work as…
This Is a Financial Extinction Event
By Charles Hugh Smith The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed….
An Interesting Juncture in History
By Charles Hugh Smith Just as the rewards of central-bank bubbles have not been evenly distributed, the pain created by the collapse of the bubbles…
The New (Forced) Frugality
By Charles Hugh Smith There are only two ways to survive a decline in income and net worth: slash expenses or default on debt. In…
All I Want for Christmas Is an Unmanipulated Market
By Charles Hugh Smith The irony, of course, is that only those punters who sold on the way up will escape the devastation of the…
A “Market” That Needs $1 Trillion in Panic-Money-Printing by the Fed to Stave Off Implosion Is Not a Market
By Charles Hugh Smith It was all fun and games enriching the super-wealthy but now the karmic cost of the Fed’s manipulation and propaganda is…
“Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?”
By Charles Hugh Smith Convenience is the sales pitch, but the real goal is control in service of maximizing profits and extending state power. When…
Predatory “Green Capitalism” Is Monetizing the Air, and It’s Going to Cost You
By Charles Hugh Smith You want to reduce CO2? Then trigger a global depression that reduces global consumption of everything by 50% and destroys 95%…