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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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%…
By Charles Hugh Smith If we consider the long term, it’s clear America’s economy and society have been declining for the average household for 50…
By Charles Hugh Smith The entire global status quo is on the cusp of the S-Curve decline phase. There is really only one unforgivable sin…
By Charles Hugh Smith Adaptability and flexibility will be the core survival traits going forward. What will separate the many nations that will crumble in…