Charles Hugh Smith·5d ago“Angry Voters”: What Are We Angry About?Here’s the mainstream summary of the midterm election results: Angry Voters Usher in Beginning of the End to the Trump Era.A response icon3A response icon3
Charles Hugh Smith·Apr 3The Inevitability of the AI DepressionThe conventional narrative views AI dominance as inevitable. What’s actually inevitable is the AI Depression, the economic fallout of…A response icon9A response icon9
Sweet As Pears·Mar 14The Moral Vacancy of Extreme WealthIn this current age of exposure, the public has been forced to confront an unsettling pattern. This is no longer an abstract critique of…
Steve Owens·Nov 22, 2025From Networks to Extraction: How Power Accumulates WealthThroughout this examination we have documented how diaspora created transnational networks, how persecution forced concentration in…
Charles Hugh Smith·Nov 18, 2025What We’ve LostAmidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40…A response icon3A response icon3
Charles Hugh Smith·Nov 14, 2025Inequality Then and Now: Now It’s Too LateThe theme here is problems are not resolved, they’re papered over with profitable faux fixes. In my previous post, I described how the…A response icon2A response icon2
InThe AnalysisbyAden M Parsons·Nov 4, 2025Stop Blaming Billionaires. You’re Just Jealous.Billionaires’ Row
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 13, 2025And So It BeginsAnd so it begins. Call it whatever you want — how about the Great Unraveling for starters — and perhaps it’s appropriate to discuss it on…
Charles Hugh Smith·May 14, 2025Living on Meds, Vitamin C and Ibogaine: American PrecarityCribbing a line from a Grateful Dead song (“ain’t it a shame”) seems appropriate when discussing the prospects of America’s burgeoning…A response icon2A response icon2
