Why the Labor Shortage Isn’t Going Away
It's getting hard to fill toxic low-pay jobs, and that's not going to change. The nature…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
The Real Policy Error Is Expanding Debt and Calling It "Growth"
Waste is not growth, and neither are the unlimited expansion of debt and speculative bubbles. The…
The Only Real Solution Is Default
The destruction of 'phantom wealth' via default has always been the only way to clear the…
US Dollar Strength: "Unintended Consequences" Or "The Empire Strikes Back"?
How unintended can these consequences be? My guess: not very. A great many people got the…
Calm Before the Tempest?
Is it beyond conception that the core actually strengthens for a length of time before the…
Why Nations Fail
The irony is that the suppression of dissent is the suppression of competing ideas that generate…