Isn’t It Obvious?
And so here we are, exhausted by the divisions, the frustration, the rage and our loneliness…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
We’re Told This Is Progress, But It’s Actually Anti-Progress
We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent…
Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?
Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready…
A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
The core skill going forward--frugality--is largely a forgotten skillset. Time to get busy while we still…
When Did Our Institutions Lose Our Trust?
This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect "mining what remains…
Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey
That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden…