The Template of National/Imperial Decay and Collapse
The point is the good times of seemingly endless expansion are never permanent yet human regimes…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Have Our Elites Lost The Mandate of Heaven?
The top monkeys are doing very well indeed, while the troop is feeling that the Monkey…
National Self-Reliance Is On the Rise: China and the U.S.
Balancing globalized trade and capital flows with domestic self-reliance and control of credit and capital is…
How to Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society and Economy
Politicians and corporate managers have an enviable record of self-enrichment but very little to show in…
Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States
Because the best protection isn't a 30-room bunker; it's having 30 people who care about you.
The Chinese Connection: Here’s Why Inflation Won’t Fall to 2% and Stay There Indefinitely
Where is the global deflator expansive enough to replace China's one-off deflation of global inflationary forces?…