Have We Reached "Peak Self-Glorifying Billionaire"?
Perhaps we should update Marie Antoinette's famous quip of cluelessness to: "Let them eat space tourism."…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
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…
Here’s Why America’s Labor-Shortage Will Drive Inflation Higher
Great swaths of the American workforce are already on strike or slipping away from the dead-end…
The $50 Trillion Plundered from Workers by America’s Aristocracy Is Trickling Back
As I often note here, when you push the pendulum to an extreme of wealth and…