Author: Charles Hugh Smith

Everything's fixed except what's no longer profitable to plunder. Underfunded, ignored, mismanaged by incompetents, it breaks.…

Echoing Sun Tzu ("All warfare is based on deception"), successful central banking is based on deception…

The unraveling of hyper-Globalization and hyper-Financialization will generate consequences few conventional analysts and pundits anticipate.

Plunder is fun until everything has been plundered. Nothing is infinite except greed and credulity. Unfortunately,…

If those on the opposite side of the trade are viewed as threats rather than friends,…

Self-reliance in the 21st century is uniquely challenging because we've become overly dependent on globalization and…