oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith
This Polycrisis Is Unique
Paging Nostradamus: You Have a Margin Call
Iran, En-Lai, Napoleon, Mike Tyson and Model Collapse
Perverse Incentives Have Created a Runaway Media Monster
Things Change
The War
The Decay of our Quality of Life No Longer Aligns with the Narrative
How We Got Here: Moral Flexibility Leads to Moral Decay
Money Is Funny That Way: The Case for USD Supremacy
What Defines a "Good Economy"? Social Mobility and Not Losing Ground
Small Business in the TINA Economy: Competing for the Scraps
What Few Understand About Money
Self-Employment Series #2: Ownership Is Not Freedom
A Market Crash and Recession Are Bullish, Not Bearish
The Banality of Evil and Those Who Said No
Re-Set: Reversing the Debt-Debasement Death-Spiral
Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life
Power and Impunity
The US Economy in a Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground
Why the Next Recession Will Be the Catalyst for Depression
The Fatal Limits of the Technocrat Class
The Epic Struggle Just Ahead
Lessons from China's Cultural Revolution
Narrative Control Made Easy: Us versus Them
Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess?
The Perverse Incentives Dominating Our Lives
We Can Discern Cycles and Waves, But Not the Outcomes
Channeling Napoleon and Chou En-Lai
Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the "Solutions" That Implode the Whole Shebang
Everyone's a Lender Now: Shadow Banking USA
The Good News Is People Are Realizing We're On Our Own
My Christmas Letter
Insane Financial Imbalances and Social Revolution
All the Dominant Models Are Collapsing
The Wile E. Coyote Insight: What We "Know" Is More Dangerous Than the Unknown
The Perilous Journey Ahead
How We Fail: The Empire Is Forever
Why We Fail
Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
Model Collapse: The Entire Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination
Why Healthcare Is in a Death Spiral: Follow the Money
24 Things I'm Grateful For
A Stoic's Thanksgiving Gratitude
The Middle Class Is Cracking
Is AI a Catalyst for Growth--or For Collapse?
What We've Lost
Inequality Then and Now: Now It's Too Late
Did the "Solution" Solve the Problem, Or Did It Just Make Somebody Rich?
The Risk of AI Isn't Skynet
The Inevitable Drift Down from "Can't Lose" Owning Stocks to "Can't Win"
Yes, Everything Crashed--Just Not For You
The Revolution Trilogy
Anatomy of AI Cold Turkey
ZIRP or ZAP? Will the Fed's 'Zero-Interest Rate Policy' Return, and Will It Work?
Could a Rip-Your-Face-Off Rally in the Dollar Trigger a Global Financial Crisis?
The Crisis and Revolution Hidden in Plain Sight
If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We'd Be In a Depression
The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order
The True Meaning of Stoicism
Look Out Below
The Golden Age of Spectacle
Will AI Crash the Economy?
Price Doesn't Reflect Value, and We're Paying a Steep Price for Confusing the Two
Can Social Security Be Saved for Future Generations?
Money, Credit, Growth and Depression: It's Complicated
Is This the Last Bubble?
The Moral Decay of Debt
Precarity and the Point of No Return
"Upgrade Now" To Get What Was Previously Included At No Extra Charge
The Garbage Time of History Is Global
Entitled, Demanding--and Shunned
Labored Daze