Are You Ready For a Real Recession?
In a real recession, what seemed safe and rock-solid melts into air. We haven't had a…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
2023: Echoes of 1973
So what's changed? Everything, but mostly beneath the surface churn of circus and theater. 2023 is…
How Many Dominoes Must Topple Before One Falls on Us?
Everything's abstract until it happens to us. Dominoes falling are abstractions until one falls on you.…
What If AI Is Only a Cost and Not a Profit Bonanza?
In the real-world, the costs are all we know for sure and profits remain elusive and…
Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private
One Deep State is bad enough, but a renegade, predatory private-sector Deep State is intolerable. In…
Doom Loops Are Multiplying
We can all pretend to be fantastic until the floor collapses beneath us. At that point,…