What’s "Normal" in a Hyper-Normalized World?
Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its "growth" and "wealth,"…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
The Family Home: From Shelter to Asset to Liability
The deflation of asset bubbles and higher costs are foreseeable, but the magnitude of each is…
This Nails It: The Doom Loop of Housing Construction Quality
Add in the doom loop of an unprecedented credit-asset bubble and housing as a sector is…
Trade, Tariffs, Currencies, Colonialism, the Gold Watch and Everything
The present-day tariff-trade-war conflicts boil down to Neocolonial strategies to gain control of markets for exports…
Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
It seems we're supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should…