Stories By Charles Hugh Smith
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Controlling the Herd
What’s Driving Social Discord: Russian Social Media Meddling or Soaring Wealth/Power Inequality?
November 2, 2017Every story and every broadcast about Russian influence is another brick in a Great Media Wall...
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Editor's Choice
What the Kennedy Assassination Records Reveal: Uncontrollable Incompetence
November 1, 2017Forget the smoking gun, look at the complicity in the cover-ups of incompetence and gross errors...
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Controlling the Herd
Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin
October 23, 2017Those who see governments banning ownership of bitcoin are ignoring the political power and influence of...
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Editor's Choice
Fraud, Exploitation and Collusion: America’s Pharmaceutical Industry
October 18, 2017The rot within manifested by the pharmaceutical industry almost defies description. That we tolerate this as...
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Editor's Choice
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo
October 17, 2017The dirty secret of America's status quo is that power and wealth are both extremely concentrated,...
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Controlling the Herd
Our Protected, Predatory Oligarchy: Dirty Secrets, Dirty Lies
October 10, 2017Open your eyes, America: there are two systems of "justice": one for the wealthy and powerful...
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Economy and Finance
Be Careful What You Wish For: Inflation Is Much Higher Than Advertised
October 5, 2017What the Federal Reserve is actually whining about is not low inflation--it's that high inflation isn't...
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Economy and Finance
Our Crazy-Making, Profiteering Education-Career Maze
September 27, 2017The answer is not another $1 trillion in student loan debt to pay for another raft...
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Economy and Finance
What Is Real Wealth?
September 21, 2017As for acquiring capital--the most important types of capital don't require much money.
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Economy and Finance
Dear Jamie Dimon: Predict the Crash that Takes Down Your Produces-Nothing, Parasitic Bank and We’ll Listen to your Bitcoin “Prediction”
September 15, 2017Dear Jamie: if you want us to listen to your incoherent ranting about bitcoin as "financial...
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Economy and Finance
Housing Bubble Symmetry: Look Out Below
September 12, 2017Housing markets are one itsy-bitsy recession away from a collapse in domestic and foreign demand by...
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Economy and Finance
Is the High Cost of Housing Crushing Wages?
September 7, 2017The siphoning off of capital from productive investments to unproductive housing is a core dynamic in...
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Economy and Finance
Why Wages Have Lost Ground in the 21st Century
August 31, 2017One of the enduring mysteries for conventional economists is why wages aren't rising for the bottom...
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Controlling the Herd
The 5 Steps to World Domination
August 29, 2017You don't need an army to achieve World Domination; all you need is enough cheap credit...
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Controlling the Herd
Ideology as Addiction
August 28, 2017The individual addicted to an ideology needs a constant drip of confirmation that the ideological belief...
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Economy and Finance
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff?
August 24, 2017The signs are everywhere for those willing to look: something has changed beneath the surface of...
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Controlling the Herd
Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns?
August 22, 2017The status quo is coughing up blood, and the situation is dire.
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Controlling the Herd
Beware the “The Cultural Civil War” Narrative: You’re Being Played
August 21, 2017Snap out of it, America: you're being played, just as you were played by the absurd...
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Economy and Finance
What the Mainstream Doesn’t Get about Bitcoin
August 16, 2017The real demand for bitcoin will not be known until a global financial crisis guts confidence...
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Economy and Finance
Why We’re So Risk-Averse: “We Can’t Take That Chance”
August 3, 2017If our faith in the future and our resilience is near-zero, then we can't take any...
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Controlling the Herd
When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth…
July 21, 2017When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rotten,...
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Economy and Finance
Why 2017 Is Like 1969
July 18, 2017The similarities between the crises unfolding in 1969 and the present-day crises are not just skin-deep--they're...
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Controlling the Herd
Our Political Parties Are Obsolete
July 6, 2017ll the core systems of the nation are failing, visibly, painfully, badly, and yet all the...
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Economy and Finance
Understanding the Cryptocurrency Boom (and its Volatility)
June 30, 2017So what’s a non-expert to make of this swirl of speculation, skepticism, tribalism, confusing technological claims...
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Controlling the Herd
The Over-Criminalization of American Life
June 23, 2017The proliferation of laws and administrative regulations, federal, state and local, that carry criminal penalties has...
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Economy and Finance
How Higher Education Became an Obscenely Profitable Racket That Enriches the Few at the Expense of the Many (Student Debt-Serfs)
May 11, 2017Student loan lenders are skimming tens of billions in profits guaranteed by the taxpayers.
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Editor's Choice
Are We (Collectively) Depressed?
April 28, 2017We need to encourage honesty above optimism. Once we can speak honestly, there is a foundation...
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Controlling the Herd
The Left’s Descent to Fascism
April 18, 2017The Left is morally and fiscally bankrupt, devoid of coherent solutions, and corrupted by its embrace...
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Editor's Choice
The U.S. and China: Why the Sudden Convergence on North Korea?
April 14, 2017It was no coincidence that America's 11-ton bunker-tunnel busting bomb was deployed in Afghanistan as tensions...
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Economy and Finance
Who’s Playing The Long Game–and What’s Their Game Plan?
April 11, 2017The only way to play The Long Game in an internecine war is with great patience,...