Stories By Charles Hugh Smith
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Economy and Finance
College Grads: It’s a Different Economy
May 4, 2013The economy has changed in structural ways; preparing for the old economy is a sure path...
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Economy and Finance
The Decline of Self-Employment and Small Business
April 22, 2013Small business is the incubator of employment. As it declines, so too do opportunities for first...
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Economy and Finance
The United States of Delusion
January 4, 2013The irony is that clinging to delusion rather than face the necessity of deep cuts will...
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Economy and Finance
Generational Wealth and Upward Mobility
October 25, 2012Advanced democracies have lost upward mobility.
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Economy and Finance
What Will Benefit from Global Recession? The U.S. Dollar
October 9, 2012Understanding the euro's failure and Triffin's Paradox helps us understand why the dollar will rise significantly...
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Economy and Finance
What Could Go Right?
October 5, 2012A number of macro-issues could "go the right way" in the coming months.
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Economy and Finance
If You Prop Up an Artificial Economy Long Enough, Does It Become Real?
October 3, 2012Does carefully nurturing a facade of health actually lead to health? No; all it does is...
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Economy and Finance
The Source of High Inflation: Government Spending
October 1, 2012If we look at what's skyrocketed in price (healthcare, college tuition), we find they are government...
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Economy
Why QE Won’t Create Inflation Quite as Expected
September 27, 2012The Fed can create money but if it doesn't end up as household income it is...
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International
China, Japan and the Senkaku Islands: The Roots of Conflict Go Back to 1274
September 25, 2012Sensitivity to domination, aggression and loss of face run deep in East Asia
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Controlling the Herd
QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion?
September 24, 2012Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic "too big to fail" banks...
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Economy and Finance
The Next Eurozone Crisis
September 20, 2012Europe is currently basking in the temporary calm of official reassurances and half-measures. The calm won't...
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Economy and Finance
If You Want to Help the Poor and the Middle Class, Encourage Deflation
September 18, 2012If we step out of the conventional brainwashing about how bad deflation is, we discover it's...
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Economy and Finance
The Fed Has Failed, Failed, Failed
September 17, 2012Bernanke knows QE3 will fail to revive the real economy, but he doesn't care; his real...
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Economy and Finance
We Need a New Stock Market
September 14, 2012We need a new stock market exchange that is a transparent, retail-trader friendly alternative to the...
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Economy and Finance
Psychoanalyzing the Fed
September 13, 2012Rather than regurgitate the usual economic analysis of the Fed's policies, let's hazard a psychoanalysis of...
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Economy and Finance
Cui Bono Fed: Who Benefits from the Federal Reserve?
September 12, 2012Does the Federal Reserve benefit the nation, or just the banks?
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Economy and Finance
The Federal Reserve’s Cargo Cult Magic: Housing Will Lift the Economy (Again)
September 11, 2012The Federal Reserve is ultimately a Cargo Cult, founded on fantasy and a boundless faith that...
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Economy and Finance
Is Anybody Else Tired of Buying and Owning Stuff?
September 7, 2012We are suffocating in stuff, physically, psychologically and spiritually.
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Economy and Finance
The Resilience and Fragility of the Status Quo
September 4, 2012The apparent resilience of the Status Quo masks its fundamental fragility.
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Economy and Finance
Labor Day 2012: The Future of Work
September 3, 2012Technology and the Web are destroying far more jobs than they create. We will need to...