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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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What If There Are No Analogs For 2024?
Wednesday, December 27, 2023 6:45 AM EDT
One of the favorite parlor games of financial analysts and seers is to make predictions about what will happen in the coming year based on past analogs.
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Everyone Loves A Generous Government Until They Have To Pay For It
Monday, December 25, 2023 12:00 AM EDT
Not only does everyone love getting "free money" from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem because we will continue to "grow our way out of debt."
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The Fed's Empire Of Speculation And The Echoes Of 1929
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 3:55 AM EDT
The Federal Reserve has so completely normalized speculative excess that these extremes are no longer even recognized as extremes.
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Black Flag Friday: Could Black Friday Be A Harbinger Of A Tapped-Out Consumer?
Friday, November 24, 2023 10:22 PM EDT
If Black Friday is a bust, it may be a harbinger of what the mainstream has long considered impossible: the American consumer is well and truly tapped out.
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What's It Take To Be Middle Class Now?
Saturday, November 18, 2023 12:03 AM EDT
Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as a middle-class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity? No, it cannot.
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Can We Reverse America's Distemper?
Monday, November 13, 2023 2:44 PM EDT
Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded.
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Downward Mobility And Life On The Margins
Friday, October 13, 2023 5:54 PM EDT
Many people will experience downward mobility as the foundations of their financial security evaporate or crumble.
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On Thin Ice
Thursday, October 12, 2023 7:00 AM EDT
There is very little wiggle room left in many household budgets, and any decline in income will crack the ice.
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How Great Is Our Economy If The Bottom 50%'s Share Of The Nation's Wealth Has Plummeted Since 2009?
Monday, October 2, 2023 8:29 AM EDT
Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present.
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Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%
Friday, September 22, 2023 1:13 AM EDT
Should stock valuations track the same decline in profits, it's entirely reasonable to expect the stock market to lose 2/3 of its valuation premium.
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The Peculiar Power Of Denial
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 1:10 AM EDT
We'd rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neo-feudal economy and broken gears of governance.
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Here's Why Housing Is Unaffordable For The Bottom 90%
Monday, September 11, 2023 11:29 PM EDT
This is the direct consequence of the Fe's decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth and income inequality that gave the wealthiest households the means to bid up housing to the point it's no longer affordable to the bottom 90%.
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The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop The Housing Bubble
Friday, August 25, 2023 9:07 PM EDT
This is how bubbles collapse: the "vital few" 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains.
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The Problem Isn't A Housing Shortage, It's The Concentration Of Ownership By The Wealthy
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 11:38 PM EDT
This concentration of housing ownership by the wealthy is the direct result of Federal Reserve and federal policies that benefit the wealthy.
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No, Central Banks Won't Save Us This Time
Monday, August 21, 2023 7:00 AM EDT
There's fanciful confidence afoot that central banks will once again coordinate a global "save" as markets careen out of control. They won't. There are many reasons for this.
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Fooled By What We Measure, Enlightened By What We Don't Measure
Monday, August 7, 2023 10:44 PM EDT
We only manage what we measure, and the reliance on statistics that are overly broad and easily distorted/gamed leads to generalizations that ignore consequential cause and effect.
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