Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset
By Charles Hugh Smith The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a…
By Charles Hugh Smith The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a…
By Charles Hugh Smith The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways. We all know that buying a…
By Charles Hugh Smith To reverse the damage wrought by financialization, we must reverse financialization. The post-election hope that festering problems can now be solved…
By Charles Hugh Smith Turn the crank of social media / search (SM/S) and you get highly profitable Digital Addiction and social destabilization leading to…
By Charles Hugh Smith No wonder we’re restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be…
By Charles Hugh Smith Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the…
By Charles Hugh Smith That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden beneath high-tech frictionless, faceless transactions…
By Charles Hugh Smith If we want social / economic renewal, we have to make it straightforward for anyone willing to adopt the values and…
By Charles Hugh Smith Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies. Free speech is getting a lot…
By Charles Hugh Smith “It’s all because of our low cost of living that I can feel relatively secure.” We see stories like this all…
By Charles Hugh Smith Can a couple of hardworking people live well in America on $30,000 a year in earnings? Yes, if they’re willing to…
By Charles Hugh Smith Perhaps the most apt metaphor to describe the decade ahead is that investors, consumers and taxpayers will all be rafting whitewater…
By Charles Hugh Smith And that’s how democracy and a free economy die. An astute reader asked me to clarify the difference between individual sacrifice…
By Charles Hugh Smith The past 24 years can be viewed as an era in which risk declined due to the dynamics of globalization and…