Author: Charles Hugh Smith

For about 1 in 4, Social Security provides at least 90 percent of their income. How…

What does it say about our "prosperity" if we can't even afford to equal the purchasing…

That the era of stability has ended and a new era of increasingly chaotic volatility has…

Change the incentives, and the outcomes change. Ecologist Howard Odum provided a profound insight into human…

If you wanted to design a system guaranteed to collapse in a putrid heap, you'd make…

The Fed sees itself as trapped by the incompetence and greed of the other players and…