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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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Forget The Fake Statistics: China Is A Tinderbox
Sunday, August 9, 2015 11:34 PM EDT
After 30 years of torrid expansion, perhaps the single most consequential factor in China’s economy is how much of it is a “black box”: a system with visible inputs and outputs whose internal workings are opaque.
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Let's Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes
Saturday, August 8, 2015 5:19 PM EDT
Since the status quo has no workable Plan B to "growth" in an economy in which household incomes have declined 8.5% in a supposedly expanding economy, real solutions must arise outside the status quo.
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Here's The Next Crisis "Nobody Saw Coming"
Friday, August 7, 2015 4:28 AM EDT
When borrowing become prohibitive (or impossible) and raising taxes no longer generates more revenues, state and local governments will have to cut expenditures.
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Where Did The GDP "Growth" Go? Not Into Wages
Thursday, August 6, 2015 4:35 AM EDT
How can the economy grow by roughly one-third in real dollars while real median household income drops like a rock?
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I Sure Am Glad There's No Inflation
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 3:45 AM EDT
I sure am glad there's no inflation, because these "stable prices" the Federal Reserve keeps jaw-jacking about are putting us in a world of hurt.
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Rent Bubble = Housing Bubble = Rent Bubble
Monday, August 3, 2015 2:31 AM EDT
Rents and housing are self-reinforcing bubbles: rents are soaring because housing is unaffordable, i.e. echo-bubble valuations. Soaring rents then justify bubblicious home prices.
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The Cost Of Stagnation: We're Living In Limbo
Friday, July 31, 2015 12:43 PM EDT
This erosion of opportunities to complete life's stages and core dramas is rarely recognized, much less addressed.
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7 "Saves" In 7 Months: A Market Going Nowhere Fast
Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:43 AM EDT
forever), Greece was "saved" again, China's crumbling stock bubble was "saved" again, and so on.
In this article: SPY, SPX
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Currency Devaluation: The Crushing Vice Of Price
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:09 AM EDT
Devaluation has a negative consequence few mention: the cost of imports skyrockets.
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Does "Creative Destruction" Include The State?
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 4:49 AM EDT
Everyone lauds "creative destruction" when it shreds monopolies and disrupts private enterprise "business as usual." If thousands lose their middle-class livelihoods-- hey, that's the price of progress.
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When Authorities "Own" The Market, The System Breaks Down: Here's Why
Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:22 PM EDT
Central planning asset purchases aimed at propping up prices destroy the essential price discovery needed by private investors.
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Bubble, Bubble, Toil And Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets To Prop Up Markets
Friday, July 24, 2015 1:00 PM EDT
The Central Planners who thought that buying shares to prop up the stock bubble was an excellent fix are about to find out the true meaning of toil and trouble.
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Is The Echo Housing Bubble About To Burst?
Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:32 PM EDT
Echo bubbles aren't followed by a third bubble.
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Will The Oil Patch Bust Trigger Recession?
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:59 PM EDT
Could the oil patch bust triggered by oil plummeting from $100/barrel to $50/barrel kick the U.S. into recession?
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Are Tech Giants' New Buildings Signs Of The Top?
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:07 AM EDT
If pouring billions of dollars into outrageous "look at me" buildings isn't tempting the gods, what is it?
In this article: AAPL, META, GOOG
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We Need A Crash To Sort The Wheat From The Chaff
Monday, July 20, 2015 4:55 AM EDT
Once the phantom collateral vanishes, there's no foundation to support additional debt and leverage.
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