Credit Exhaustion Is Global
By Charles Hugh Smith Europe is awash in credit exhaustion, and so is China. The signs are everywhere: credit exhaustion is global, and that means…
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France in a Nutshell: “The Government Stopped Listening to the People 20 Years Ago”
By Charles Hugh Smith The elites’ clever exploitation of politically correct cover stories has enthralled the comatose, uncritical Left, but not those who see their…
The View from the Trenches of the Alternative Media
By Charles Hugh Smith What’s scarce in a world awash in free content and nearly infinite entertainment content? After 3,701 posts (from May 2005 to…
Shadow Banning Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: We’re All Digital Ghosts Now
By Charles Hugh Smith Just about the only bulwark against being silenced by the modern-day tech-corporate-NKVD-Stasi is Patreon. If you do a search of shadow banning,…
Globalization Has Hollowed Out Rural America
By Charles Hugh Smith The value of local control and local capital far exceed the pathetic “savings” reaped from shoddy commoditized goods. What do we make of an economy…
The Grand Irony of RussiaGate: The U.S. Becomes More Like the U.S.S.R. Every Day
By Charles Hugh Smith When the Soviet regime exiled Sakharov in 1980, everybody assumed the USSR was permanent and impregnable to collapse. There are many…
What’s Wrong With The Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all…
Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score”
By Charles Hugh Smith China is creating Kafka’s nightmare world as the perfection of centralized control of its citizenry. China is rapidly building out a…
The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
By Charles Hugh Smith This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless,…
The Problem with a State-Cartel Economy: Prices Rise, Wages Don’t
By Charles Hugh Smith The vise will tighten until something breaks. It could be the currency, it could be the political status quo, it could…
15 Years of War: To Whose Benefit?
By Charles Hugh Smith As for Iraq, the implicit gain was supposed to be access to Iraqi oil. Setting aside the 12 years of “no…
Decrypting The Appointment Of John Bolton
By Charles Hugh Smith So perhaps the dominant wing of the Deep State is finally willing to cut a deal with Trump. To many observers,…
Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy?
By Charles Hugh Smith If targeting political extremes generates the most profit, then that’s what these corporations will pursue. As many of you know, oftwominds.com…
Career Advice to 20-Somethings: Create Value as a Mobile Creative
By Charles Hugh Smith Finding work that fits who you are is rarely easy, especially if you don’t fit into the mainstream, and usually it…