A Time Capsule from the 1930s: What’s Different Now
If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values,…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%
Should stock valuations track this same decline in profits, it's entirely reasonable to expect the stock…
The Peculiar Power of Denial
We'd rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neofeudal…
How to Select a Town the Rich Won’t Gentrify and Ruin
Let's review how to select a town that the rich won't ruin via gentrification / swarming…
Here’s Why Housing Is Unaffordable for the Bottom 90%
This is the direct consequence of the Federal Reserve's decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth…
Reinventing Democracy
The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are…