Is Inflation “Transitory”? Here’s Your Simple Test Is inflation "transitory" in your household budget? Really? Where? Charles Hugh Smith 17 Jun 21 383 1
What a Wonderful Time, Every Single Asset Is Rising. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? There used to be a word for the price of everything going up Charles Hugh Smith 8 Apr 21 542 3
There’s No Vaccine for a Terminally Ill Economy Few are willing to admit the US economy was already on life support before Covid Charles Hugh Smith 11 Mar 21 426 2
Inflation Is a Class War "Meanwhile, those with the right kind of assets are experiencing fantasic increases in their unearned income" Charles Hugh Smith 10 Mar 21 450 0
They Can Always Print More Money but We Can’t Print More Time "Which put another way is the power to devalue the money we trade our time for and thus devalue our time" Charles Hugh Smith 2 Mar 21 562 1
Vaccine ID Is Easier Said Than Done Sure they want them. Can it actually be done? Charles Hugh Smith 25 Dec 20 669 10
“The Great Reset” Already Happened "Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there's nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize" Charles Hugh Smith 16 Nov 20 1740 16
Bubblegeddon Helicopter Money and the End of Taxes Free money for everyone! Charles Hugh Smith 15 Oct 20 710 18
Bubblegeddon America’s Metastasizing Class Wars "The winners in this system are protected by the State, while the losers are stripmined by crushing taxes or humiliated by their abject dependence on the state". Charles Hugh Smith 12 Sep 20 950 6
Bubblegeddon In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who’s Emperor As long as the Fed can keep the decline pain-free for the elites. pretense and PR will be preferred to perilous reform Charles Hugh Smith 8 Sep 20 874 0
Bubblegeddon If the “Market” Never Goes Down, the System Is Doomed "Markets are fundamentally clearing houses of information on price, demand, sentiment, expectations and so on" Charles Hugh Smith 4 Sep 20 706 0
Bubblegeddon Here’s Why the “Impossible” Economic Collapse Is Unavoidable There is no "new normal" for the economy Charles Hugh Smith 18 Aug 20 1461 6
This Is a Financial Extinction Event "The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed" Charles Hugh Smith 21 Jul 20 1387 9
Bubblegeddon The Fed’s Casino Is in Flames, but Please Continue Gambling "The pool of greater fools is drying up, and so the Fed has been forced to start buying its own gambling chips directly. This is an act of complete desperation" Charles Hugh Smith 20 Jun 20 717 3
Bubblegeddon The Fed’s Grand Bargain Has Finally Imploded "It's a long way to the bottom of the canyon, and the impact will be devastating" Charles Hugh Smith 16 Jun 20 924 7
Bubblegeddon An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks to Decline Is Too Fragile to Survive And a system that will sacrifice everything to stock valuations isn't fit to exist Charles Hugh Smith 26 May 20 869 9
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging The present system based on monetary fraud nears its collapse, something much better and more sensible will take its place Charles Hugh Smith 14 May 20 1084 9
Bubblegeddon Our Inevitable Collapse: We Can’t Save a Fragile Economy With Bailouts That Increase Fragility By bailing out the sources of systemic fragility with trillions, the Fed has shifted the risk to the entire financial system and the currency itself Charles Hugh Smith 5 May 20 1011 5
Bubblegeddon Covid-19 Tips the Dominios: The World Is Insolvent "Subtract their immense debts and they have negative net worth, and therefore the market value of their stock is zero" Charles Hugh Smith 17 Mar 20 1491 7
Bubblegeddon The Future of What’s Called “Capitalism” Whatever definition of capitalism you use, the current system isn't it Charles Hugh Smith 6 Feb 20 648 6
Bubblegeddon All I Want for Christmas Is an Unmanipulated Market "Everyone knows the price has lost connection with reality, and so every punter is one second away from hitting sell" Charles Hugh Smith 25 Dec 19 567 6
Why OK Boomer Should Really Be OK Fed It's money inflation that is behind the ever-widening wealth gap between the generations Charles Hugh Smith 19 Dec 19 370 3
