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Charles Hugh Smith

Book Author, Blogger at Of Two Minds
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Charles Hugh Smith, has been an independent journalist for 22 years. His weblog, www.oftwominds.com, is a daily compendium of observations and analysis on the global economy and financial markets, as well as notable political, social ...more
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End Of The Empire
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 8:23 AM EDT
If the top 1/100th of 1% crowding airports with their private jets isn't afraid of impoverished, disenchanted debt-serfs with pitchforks, they should be.
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The Critical Difference Between Rentier Wealth And Wealth Creation
Monday, October 6, 2014 8:48 PM EDT
Duplicate article.
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The Critical Difference Between Rentier Wealth And Wealth Creation
Monday, October 6, 2014 8:47 PM EDT
If you want to understand why our economy is stagnating and wealth inequality is rising, look at the rise of rentier skims and the resulting decline in wealth creation.
In this article: MSFT
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Crony Capitalism Is Kryptonite To Democracy And The Real Economy
Monday, October 6, 2014 6:54 AM EDT
When the machinery of governance is ruled by the highest bidders, democracy is dead.
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What Are We So Afraid Of?
Friday, October 3, 2014 6:10 AM EDT
Fear drives students and their families to borrow immense sums for mostly marginal college educations: here are Federal student loans--is anybody on this debt-rocket-ride to the moon asking if there is a Plan B or C that doesn't require a life of debt-serfdom/indentured servitude?
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The Sources Of America's Political & Financial Dysfunction
Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:47 AM EDT
The way to preserve great wealth is to buy political protection of that wealth. The way to protect great political leverage is to grease the machinery of governance with cash.
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Oil, Empire And Playing The Great Game
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 7:10 AM EDT
Those waiting for the U.S. and its dollar to collapse in a heap may find their own stability is more contingent (and fleeting) than they reckoned.
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Is The Stock Market Top In?
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:01 AM EDT
The pool of greater fools willing and able to buy assets at higher prices with leveraged free money has been drained by six years of credit/risk expansion.
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The Oil Head-Fake: The Illusion That Lower Oil Prices Are Positive
Monday, September 29, 2014 5:03 AM EDT
The essence of the Oil Head-Fake Dynamic is the inevitable drop in oil price due to global recession will trigger disruption of the global oil supply chain.
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Global Status Quo Optimizes: Protecting Elites And The Clerisy Class
Friday, September 26, 2014 3:02 AM EDT
The political, corporate/financial and National Security State Elites represent a vanishingly thin layer of the American economy and society.
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Global Bellwether: Japan's Social Depression
Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:25 AM EDT
Beneath the surface wealth of bullet trains, cute robots and exuberant fashions, this is the Japan few outsiders understand: the one gripped by a deepening social depression.
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What Metric Are We Optimizing For?
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:41 AM EDT
If we choose metrics unwisely, we create self-destructive choices, policies and goals.
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GDP = Waste
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:23 AM EDT
Any system that has no way to measure, much less prioritize, opportunity costs and maximization of utility is not just flawed--it is terribly misguided and structurally destructive.
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The Counter-Intuitive Rise Of The U.S. Dollar
Monday, September 22, 2014 6:57 AM EDT
As things get dicier globally, assets in periphery nations typically get dumped as mobile capital flees risk and migrates to lower risk core nations and currencies.
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Are We Ready For Daily-Life Drones?
Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:10 AM EDT
This exploration illustrates how ill-prepared we are, legally and socially, for the multitude of issues and conflicts that will inevitably arise as private drones become cheap and ubiquitous.
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Which Global Hegemon Is On Shifting Sands?
Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:27 AM EDT
Given that all the leading candidates for Global Hegemon are hastening down paths of self-destruction, perhaps there will be no global hegemon dominating the 21st century.
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