Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 30, 2025The No-Win Bubble “Wealth Effect”: Either Way We LoseI have endeavored to explain how our economy has changed dramatically over the past 50 years beneath the surface. Nothing that’s going to…A response icon11
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·Oct 14, 2024Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?Thanks to recency bias, we tend to think the world has always been more or less as it is today. Tectonic shifts beneath the veneer of…A response icon3
Charles Hugh Smith·May 6, 2024Withdrawing from the Rat Race Is Going GlobalThe world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don’t fit the heavily promoted narratives of “growth” and “progress.” The…A response icon1
