America Is a Moral Cesspool, and Student Loans Prove It
If America somehow managed to educate millions of college students without burdening them with $2 trillion…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
America Has Lost the Trade War with China, and the Real Pain Has Yet to Begin
Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As…
Have We Reached "Peak Self-Glorifying Billionaire"?
Perhaps we should update Marie Antoinette's famous quip of cluelessness to: "Let them eat space tourism."…
Big Tech: "Our Terms Have Changed"
So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don't be…
How Breakdown Cascades Into Collapse
Maintaining the illusion of confidence, permanence and stability serves the interests of those benefiting from the…
Welcome to the 21st Century Sequel of the Catastrophic 1600s
As the chart below on 'how systems collapse' illustrates, the loss of stabilizing buffers goes unnoticed…