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.…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
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,…
Once Trust Has Been Lost, There’s No Going Back
Now that the overlapping crises are upon us and the banquet of consequences is being served,…
Front-Running the Fed Pivot Might Not Work Next Time
The Fed has trained the trading-rats all too well, and there is no way to avoid…