If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression
GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order
The pool of speculative fervor will be drained, as impossible as that seems in this moment…
The True Meaning of Stoicism
Self-discipline isn't supposed to be punishing. Rather, it's friendly and encouraging. The encouraging Master is strict…
The Golden Age of Spectacle
"The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie." Guy Debord
Will AI Crash the Economy?
The lines of dominoes being toppled run through every nook and cranny of the economy.