The Four D’s That Define the Future
When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Dear Jerry and James: You’re Both Wrong About New York
The "system" known as a city, now bloated and overgrown by decades of mal-investment, will be…
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
While the Federal Reserve and the Billionaire Class push the stock market to new highs to…
Inflation Is Stealth Austerity
Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation's…
Intolerance and Authoritarianism Accelerate Disunity and Collapse
Scapegoating dissenters only hastens the disunity and disarray that accelerates the final collapse.Authoritarianism is imposed on us,…
In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who’s Emperor
Pretense and PR are not reality, and believing the Old Normal will magically be restored with…