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Charles Hugh Smith

Book Author, Blogger at Of Two Minds
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Charles Hugh Smith, has been an independent journalist for 22 years. His weblog, OfTwoMinds.com, is a daily compendium of observations and analysis on the global economy and financial markets, as well as notable political, social and cultural trends. Charles ...more
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The Spear In AI's Back
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 6:20 PM EDT
That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given.
In this article: BOTZ
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Sound Money Vs. Fiat Currency: Trade And Credit Are The Wild Cards
Thursday, April 11, 2024 5:07 PM EDT
We need to start thinking outside the current system, which has no solutions.
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YOLO Spending, Inflation And The Wisdom/Madness Of Crowds
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:32 PM EDT
Once expectations of inflation become embedded, enterprises raise prices and workers demand higher wages regardless of actual inflationary pressures.
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Fed To Offer Every Household $1 Million From Its New Discount Window
Monday, April 1, 2024 1:15 PM EDT
The Federal Reserve announced a new program today that offers every American household a $1 million loan from its new Household Discount Window at 2% interest. 
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Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future
Friday, March 29, 2024 5:11 PM EDT
Few win when a reserve currency dies. Labor can start earning the day after the reset, but the capital lost is gone for good.
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Our Economy And Politics Are Broken
Monday, March 25, 2024 4:10 PM EDT
Awakening from the dream of painless financial/political solutions, we find the status quo is not the solution, it is the source of our decay
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Global Recession's Winners And Losers
Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:47 PM EDT
The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU elites.
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Rates, Risk And Debt: The Unavoidable Reckoning Ahead
Monday, February 26, 2024 4:18 PM EDT
Policy errors have consequences, and we're only in the first inning of those consequences.
In this article: IEF
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Finding, Creating (And Keeping) A Job In The Era Of AI
Monday, February 19, 2024 5:13 PM EDT
What's valuable is flexible, entrepreneurial, experiential-based skills that can be applied to a variety of problems--including those that have yet to arise.
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The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs And Artificial Scarcity
Friday, February 16, 2024 5:20 PM EDT
Unleash the powers of unlimited credit and excess capital on a limited, essential resource such as shelter and this is what we end up with: artificial scarcity, rent-serfs and half-vacant neighborhoods owned by absentee landlords.
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Household Belt-Tightening: Will The Trickle Become A Flood?
Thursday, February 8, 2024 6:10 PM EDT
The top 0.1% will weather a recession just fine, but that will offer cold comfort to the other 130 million American households.
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Irony Alert: "Outlawing" Recession Has Made A Monster Recession Inevitable
Thursday, February 8, 2024 4:14 PM EDT
Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and so they're unprepared for anything other than guarantees of rescue and permanent expansion.
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Our Tax System Is An Unfair Mess: Here's How To Fix It
Monday, January 29, 2024 2:57 PM EDT
Make the U.S. attractive to labor and capital with low rates and a simple, fair tax system and the populace and economy will benefit.
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The Chinese Connection: Here's Why Inflation Won't Fall To 2% And Stay There Indefinitely
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 6:50 PM EDT
Where is the global deflator expansive enough to replace China's one-off deflation of global inflationary forces? There isn't one.
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What The Fed Accomplished: Distorted The Economy, Enriched The Rich And Crushed The Middle Class
Thursday, January 4, 2024 5:39 PM EDT
The mainstream holds the Fed is busy planning a return to the glory days of zero interest rates, but ZIRP is on the downside of the S-Curve; it's done, gone, history.
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2023: The Fed Declares Victory; 2024: The Year Of Hubris And Nemesis
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 4:40 AM EDT
Are the crowds ready for the curtain of Fed omnipotence to be pulled aside? What will push markets ever higher if the Fed's alchemy fails?
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