Our Phantom Middle Class
What happens when America finally admits its middle class is a phantom of feel-good fantasy? We…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Big Media: Selling the Narrative and Crushing Dissent for Fun and Profit
The profit-maximizing Big Tech / Big Media Totalitarian regime hasn't just strangled free speech and civil…
What Would Happen If the Fed Ceased to Exist?
Extremes get more extreme until risk breaks out; then the reversal will be as extreme as…
When Social Capital Becomes More Valuable Than Financial Capital
This devaluation of financial wealth--and its transformation to a dangerous liability-- will reach extremes equal to…
Can 20 Years of Deflation Be Compressed into Two Years? We’re About to Find Out
Extremes become more extreme right up until they reverse, a reversal no one believes possible here…
One Little Problem with the "All-Electric" Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the "Waste" Gasoline?
Regardless of what happens with vaccines and Covid-19, debt and energy--inextricably bound as debt funds consumption--…