Stories By Charles Hugh Smith
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Armageddon Scenarios
Is the Stock Market Now ”Too Big to Fail”?
September 4, 2015If the market is indeed now too big to fail, the Fed will be forced to...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Here’s the Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming”
August 7, 2015Strangely enough, every easily foreseeable financial crisis is presented in the mainstream media as one that...
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Armageddon Scenarios
I Sure Am Glad There’s No Inflation
August 6, 2015I sure am glad there's no inflation, because these "stable prices" the Federal Reserve keeps jaw-jacking...
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Economy and Finance
What’s the Real Unemployment Rate in the U.S.?
June 16, 2015By my reckoning, roughly 60% of the civilian work force is fully employed and 40% are...
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Crime/Police State
If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken
June 10, 2015We now inhabit a world where virtually everything is a con.
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Economy and Finance
Memo to the Fed: You Are the Enemy of the Middle Class, Capitalism, and the Nation
June 5, 2015Memo to the Fed: you are the enemy of the middle class, capitalism and the nation.
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Economy and Finance
Being Healthy Is Unprofitable
June 3, 2015U.S. healthcare is unsustainable. That it will break in the next decade is predictable.
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Economy and Finance
The Central Problem With Central Banks: They Become the Greater Fools/Bag-Holders
May 13, 2015Those who are confident the central banks can print unlimited money may find there are political...
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Economy and Finance
Endangered Species: The Self-Employed Middle Class
May 5, 2015It isn't easy to earn enough to afford a middle class life via self-employment. Including the...
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Economy and Finance
How Much of Our Work Is Compliance, Enforcement, and Menial Servitude to the New Aristocracy?
April 28, 2015It's difficult to estimate the quantity of our work devoted to data-shuffling compliance with and enforcement...
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Controlling the Herd
Ten Wonderful Things I’m Grateful for (Irony Alert)
April 21, 2015Since every volume on the nearly endless shelf of pop psychology self-help books recommends working up...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Neofeudalism 101: Strip-Mining the Upper Middle Class
April 9, 2015The tax donkeys who pay most of the tax support the large class of modern-day serfs...
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Controlling the Herd
Orwell and Kafka Do America: How the Government Steals Your Money – “Legally,” of Course
March 27, 2015Due process and rule of law have been replaced with "legalized" looting by government in America.
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Economy and Finance
Income, Education and Inequality in The “Recovery”: Prepare to Be Surprised
March 20, 2015Note to the higher education industry: issuing diplomas doesn't magically create new jobs in the real...
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Controlling the Herd
When It Becomes Serious, First They Lie — When That Fails, They Arrest You
March 16, 2015When lying is no longer enough to gain compliance, then the organs of security are unleashed...
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Economy and Finance
Empire of Lies
February 13, 2015We are living in an era where a single statement of truth will drive a pin...
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Economy and Finance
How Do You Unmanipulate a Manipulated Economy?
January 20, 2015Breaking the stranglehold of vested interests is the essential step to rebuilding an economy that isn't...
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Controlling the Herd
2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss
January 9, 2015What will you accept as real--your intuition that something is deeply amiss in America, or the...
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Economy and Finance
2015: Now That the Fed Drove Everyone into Ruinously Risky Bets…
January 7, 2015It is impossible for everyone to sell at the top before the implosion; the assets are...
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Economy and Finance
2015: A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness and Desperation
January 5, 2015Issuing lies and pursuing willful blindness is not leadership: it's failure on a grand scale.
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Economy and Finance
Should I Buy a House in 2015?
December 31, 2014Let's try to identify some key reference points to consider.
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Economy and Finance
Don’t Just Follow the Money – Follow the Income
December 30, 2014Lies are no substitute for truth and fantasy is no substitute for reality.
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Economy and Finance
Do We Own Our Stuff, or Does Our Stuff Own Us?
December 1, 2014Being freed from being owned is a form of liberation with many manifestations.
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Economy and Finance
Have Central Banks Entered an Undeclared War?
November 22, 2014The monetary tectonic plates are shifting, and predicting the next global financial earthquake is relatively easy.
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Economy and Finance
One Reason Why Sickcare Is Outrageously Expensive: Needless Scans/Tests
November 21, 2014Add easy profits from needless tests to defensive medicine and no cost controls or real competition,...
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Economy and Finance
The Hidden Value of Gardens
September 13, 2014Much of the community economy is invisible to market discovery of price/value.
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Economy
Why Has Classical Capitalism Devolved to Crony-Capitalism?
September 11, 2014Here is the quote that perfectly captures our era: "People of privilege will always risk their...
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Economy and Finance
Stocks Have Reached a Permanently High Plateau
September 8, 2014Permanently high plateau has such a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
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Economy and Finance
Here’s Why the Market Could Crash–Not in Two Years, But Now
September 5, 2014Why not crash now? After all, all the good news is known and priced in, and...
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Economy and Finance
The Underbelly of Corporate America: Insider Selling, Stock Buy-Backs, Dodgy Profits
September 2, 2014The hollowing out of corporate strengths to enable short-term profiteering by the handful at the top...