Can We “Export Inflation?” Yes We Can, Yes We Are
By Charles Hugh Smith A strong currency exports inflation to those nations which do not issue the currency. Though it’s difficult to be confident of…
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How Empires Die
Op-Ed by Charles Hugh Smith When the state / empire loses the ability to recognize and solve core problems of security and fairness, it will…
Should You Move While You Can, Or When You Must?
By Charles Hugh Smith This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers…
How Vulnerable Is Your Personal Supply Chain?
By Charles Hugh Smith How vulnerable is your personal supply chain? For the average American, the answer is: very. Americans consider abundance and ready availability…
Eight Reasons Scarcities Will Increase Rather Than Evaporate
By Charles Hugh Smith Who knew it would be so easy? All we have to do is collect urine and we’ll be flying our electric…
The UFO/Fed Connection
By Charles Hugh Smith Perhaps the aliens’ keen interest in Earth’s central bank magic and its potential for destruction results from a wager. You’ve probably…
Stimulus Addiction Disorder: The Debt-Disposable Earnings Pyramid
By Charles Hugh-Smith One glance at this chart explains why the status quo is locked on “run to fail” and will implode in a spectacular…
The Global Financial Endgame in Fourteen Points
By Charles Hugh Smith The over-indebted, overcapacity global economy can only generate speculative asset bubbles that will implode, destroying the latest round of phantom collateral….
The Most Hopeful Scenario for 2021
By Charles Hugh Smith Choose wisely, America, or the options for a positive outcome will vanish like mist in Death Valley on a clear July…
“The Great Reset” Already Happened
By Charles Hugh Smith Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The…
The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize
By Charles Hugh Smith Clearly, the Fed reckons the public is foolish enough to believe the Fed’s money will actually be “free.” It’s pretty much…
How We Institutionalized Incompetence
By Charles Hugh Smith And so we face the ultimate irony: ‘bailing-out-everything’ destroys the entire rotten system. You’ve probably noticed things no longer work as…
This Is a Financial Extinction Event
By Charles Hugh Smith The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed….
An Interesting Juncture in History
By Charles Hugh Smith Just as the rewards of central-bank bubbles have not been evenly distributed, the pain created by the collapse of the bubbles…