Stories By Charles Hugh Smith
-
Controlling the Herd
Is Your “Democracy” Actually a Totalitarian State? Take this Quick Quiz
April 6, 2017In the USA, the answer is "yes," the government is a tyranny by complexity.
-
Economy and Finance
Forget ObamaCare, RyanCare, and any Future ReformCare–the Healthcare System Is Completely Broken
March 28, 2017"Reform" is an appealing delusion, but the rot is so deep and so pervasive it is...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Divided Deep State is a Symptom, Not the Disease
March 23, 2017If we understand the profound political disunity fracturing the nation and its Imperial Project, we understand...
-
Economy and Finance
Dear America: Better Read the Fine Print on Your Credit Card Statement
March 22, 2017What will replace the current system after it self-destructs? That's the question.
-
Economy and Finance
When Money Is “Free,” Discipline Evaporates; When Discipline Evaporates, Decisions Are Disastrous
March 17, 2017Whatever is free is squandered.
-
Economy and Finance
Solutions Abound–on the Local Level
March 13, 2017Rather than bemoan the inevitable failure of centralized "fixes," let's turn our attention and efforts to...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Criminalization of Financial Independence
February 24, 2017Independent enterprises are a source of political and financial independence--and any independent class is dangerous to...
-
Controlling the Herd
Over-Regulation Has Criminalized the Practice of Medicine
February 23, 2017The average person has little exposure to the criminalization of everyday enterprise in America via over-regulation...
-
Controlling the Herd
There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News
February 21, 2017The mainstream media continues peddling its "fake news" narrative like a desperate pusher whose junkies are...
-
Controlling the Herd
While Elites Played Empire, America Fell Apart
February 17, 2017Dear Imperial America: the lifestyle you ordered is permanently out of stock.
-
Economy and Finance
Loving Our Servitude in America’s Plantation Economy
February 10, 2017We have a choice. We can continue loving our servitude in our Plantation Economy, or we...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Fix-Nothing Farce of Symbolic Politics
February 2, 2017Solutions are not symbolic; solutions gut the rackets by breaking down the regulatory walls protecting the...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Most Important Civil Rights Issue Trump Could Solve with an Executive Order: End the “War on Drugs” Gulag
January 27, 2017One of the first steps to making America great again is to close down the War...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Collapse of the Left
January 23, 2017The Left is not just in disarray--it is in complete collapse because the working class has...
-
Editor's Choice
Does a Rogue Deep State Have Trump’s Back?
January 20, 2017Rather than being the bad guys, as per the usual Liberal world-view, the Armed Forces may...
-
Economy and Finance
Trump as Lightning Rod–Not Just for Disaffected Progressives, But For Panicked Insiders
January 19, 2017The Eastern Establishment fears and loathes Outsiders, and seeks to destroy them, usually via the mainstream...
-
Economy and Finance
Will Our Grandchildren Wonder Why We Didn’t Build a Renewable Power Grid When It Was Still Affordable?
January 16, 2017Tragi-comedy in the making, or no worries, mate, energy will be cheap and abundant for decades...
-
Economy and Finance
The Path to $10,000 Bitcoin
January 12, 2017So let's imagine a scenario in which tens of trillions of at-risk wealth suddenly seek an...
-
Controlling the Herd
Dear Self-Proclaimed “Progressives”: as Apologists for the Neocon-Neoliberal Empire, You Are as Evil as the Empire You’ve Enabled
January 10, 2017We need to pull together, not self-divide into ever more fractious camps. The oldest and most...
-
Economy and Finance
Prosperity = Abundant Work + Low Cost of Living
January 3, 2017While the economy is a vast, complex machine, the sources of widespread prosperity are not that...
-
Controlling the Herd
Fake News, Mass Hysteria and Induced Insanity
December 30, 2016The "fake news" is that we've never been healthier, healthcare costs are under control and our...
-
Economy and Finance
Why I’m Hopeful
December 28, 2016Why am I hopeful? the Status Quo is devolving, and a better way of living lies...
-
Economy and Finance
Why the Massive Expansion of “Money” Hasn’t Trickled Down to “The Rest of Us”
December 22, 2016If you create and distribute money only in the apex of the wealth/power pyramid, it can...
-
Economy and Finance
What Have the “Experts” Gotten Right? In the Real Economy, They’re 0 for 5
December 20, 2016Eight years of failure and counterproductive consequences is enough to declare the "experts" are only "experts"...
-
Editor's Choice
Why the Democrats Can’t Let Go of Losing
December 17, 2016Why has the nation turned away from the Democratic Party? Perhaps one reason is that the...
-
Editor's Choice
Is the Deep State at War – With Itself?
December 13, 2016Shouldn't statements purported to be "fact" or the "truth" be substantiated beyond "trust us, an agency...
-
Economy and Finance
Populism in America: “Follow the Money”
December 8, 2016America's populist movements, including the present one, have been revolts against the concentrated wealth and power...
-
Controlling the Herd
Our “Gaslight” Financial System
December 6, 2016Perhaps the ultimate gaslighting in human history is our current fiat money creation system that benefits...
-
Controlling the Herd
The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative
November 28, 2016Labeling everyone who dissents or questions the ruling elite's narrative as tools of an enemy power...
-
Economy and Finance
The Great Con: Political Correctness Has Marginalized the Working Class
November 18, 2016So when the protected class of well-paid institutional "progressives" speak darkly of "reversing 40 years of...