What’s It Take To Be Middle Class Now?
Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Check All That Apply: Artifice, Suppression, Deceit, Denial, Delusion
Why does the phrase "bread and circuses" keep coming to mind?
Can We Reverse America’s Distemper?
Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded. Consider this description of America's discontent:
The Original Song That Came To Me in a Dream
It was interesting to compose a melody in a dream. Of Two Minds is devoted to…
The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled to Digital Siberia
As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a…
Who’s Wealth Will Get "Clawed Back" First?
Politically, what's the easier play: cut entitlements, the vast majority of which flow to the bottom…