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
Alexander Houston·Aug 15, 2025Your Grocery Bill Jumps £47/Month as Food Inflation Hits 2.9%Your Grocery Bill Jumps £47/Month as Food Inflation Hits 2.9%
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 27, 2025The Economy — and its Future — in Four ChartsClimbing above the craziness of the Normalized Now news flow to view the economy from a quiet, windswept peak helps clear the mind of…A response icon19A response icon19
Charles Hugh Smith·Feb 26, 2025Housing: The Foundations of the Middle Class Are CrumblingHome ownership has been the foundation of middle-class stability and security for so long that it defines middle-class status as much as…A response icon4A response icon4
Charles Hugh Smith·Nov 8, 2024Unaffordable Housing and Homeless Encampments: How Did It Get This Bad?The post-election hope that festering problems can now be solved doesn’t seem to extend to unaffordable housing and homeless encampments…A response icon2A response icon2
Charles Hugh Smith·Sep 27, 2023When Shelter Becomes a Speculative Asset, Society UnravelsLet’s begin by stipulating that speculation (i.e. gambling) is part of human nature. The role of regulations and policy is to limit the…
Charles Hugh Smith·Sep 13, 2023How to Select a Town the Rich Won’t Gentrify and RuinYesterday I discussed how those enriched by two decades of Federal Reserve-inflated bubbles make housing unaffordable for the bottom 90% by…
Charles Hugh Smith·Sep 11, 2023Here’s Why Housing Is Unaffordable for the Bottom 90%The superficial conclusion that the reason why housing is unaffordable is a scarcity of housing misses a key dynamic in supply and demand…
Lavinia Latham·Mar 7, 2023What a place of privilege.As a new homeowner, this article titled, “These five cities have seen home prices fall by almost 30% — nearly double Toronto’s drop”…
