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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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Where Did The GDP "Growth" Go? Not Into Wages
How can the economy grow by roughly one-third in real dollars while real median household income drops like a rock?
I Sure Am Glad There's No Inflation
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.
Rent Bubble = Housing Bubble = Rent Bubble
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.
The Cost Of Stagnation: We're Living In Limbo
This erosion of opportunities to complete life's stages and core dramas is rarely recognized, much less addressed.
7 "Saves" In 7 Months: A Market Going Nowhere Fast
forever), Greece was "saved" again, China's crumbling stock bubble was "saved" again, and so on.
Currency Devaluation: The Crushing Vice Of Price
Devaluation has a negative consequence few mention: the cost of imports skyrockets.
Does "Creative Destruction" Include The State?
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.
When Authorities "Own" The Market, The System Breaks Down: Here's Why
Central planning asset purchases aimed at propping up prices destroy the essential price discovery needed by private investors.
Bubble, Bubble, Toil And Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets To Prop Up Markets
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.
Is The Echo Housing Bubble About To Burst?
Echo bubbles aren't followed by a third bubble.
Will The Oil Patch Bust Trigger Recession?
Could the oil patch bust triggered by oil plummeting from $100/barrel to $50/barrel kick the U.S. into recession?
Are Tech Giants' New Buildings Signs Of The Top?
If pouring billions of dollars into outrageous "look at me" buildings isn't tempting the gods, what is it?
We Need A Crash To Sort The Wheat From The Chaff
Once the phantom collateral vanishes, there's no foundation to support additional debt and leverage.
What's Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways To Get Ahead And Innovation
What's in demand but scarce is valuable. This is one of those scale-invariant principles: businesses large and small want what's scarce and in demand. What's abundant but not in demand is cheap. What's scarce but not in demand is ignored.
Thank Goodness Everything's Been Fixed
A chastened Greece is fixed, that spot of bother in China has been fixed and so has that Iran nuclear problem... so is everybody happy?
Greece And The Problem Of Correcting Trade/Productivity Imbalances
Piling on more debt is the worst possible way to correct structural trade and productivity imbalances.
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