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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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The Housing Echo-Bubble Is Popping
Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:04 PM EDT
There is nothing remotely "normal" about the echo-bubble's rise, and we can anticipate that its deflation will be equally abnormal.
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Why Artifice Rules The World: We Have No Choice
Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:03 AM EDT
There's only one small problem with relying on artifice: we haven't actually fixed what's broken in the real world. Rather than actually address the structural causes of unemployment, we lower interest rates to zero and reckon the resulting financial bubble will fix the problems.
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The New Misery Index
Monday, August 25, 2014 11:51 AM EDT
The classic Misery Index is the sum of unemployment and inflation, though later variations have added interest rates and the relative shortfall or surplus of GDP growth.
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Is The $5 Bill The New $1 Bill?
Monday, August 25, 2014 6:46 AM EDT
It's starting to feel like a $5 bill is the new $1 bill: everything that could be purchased with one or two dollars not that long ago is now $5 or even $10.
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Why The Fed Must Taper
Friday, August 22, 2014 3:19 AM EDT
While the Federal Reserve presents itself as free to do whatever it pleases whenever it pleases, the reality is the Fed's own policies are constraining its choices.
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The Crazy-Making Fed
Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:10 AM EDT
The Federal Reserve's communications and policies are a form of crazy-making double bind. No wonder the economy and everyone participating in it are beset by various manifestations of mental and physical illness.
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The Housing Bubble's Silver Lining
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:13 AM EDT
As rents climb, developers large and small take out their calculators and dreams of wealth blossom: but no, this is not bubble.
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Are Capital Inflows Propping Up U.S. Markets?
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:32 AM EDT
Nobody really believes the official narrative that the "recovery" is powering the remarkable strength of U.S. stocks, bonds and real estate.
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Don't Think It Won't Happen Just Because It Hasn't Happened Yet: Loss Of Faith In The Fed
Monday, August 18, 2014 8:41 AM EDT
Much of the supposedly godlike power of central banks is participants' faith in their powers to control not just finance but the real world that can be leveraged by finance.
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Have We Forgotten What An Authentic Market Is?
Monday, August 18, 2014 3:26 AM EDT
Everyone who feels forced to play along plans to exit before the whole rotten structure implodes, but that's not how collapses work.
In this article: SPX
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Is Collapse The Only Real "Fix" To Our Healthcare And Legal Systems?
Friday, August 15, 2014 3:54 AM EDT
If structural reform is impossible as a result of political capture by vested interests, collapse is the only "fix" left.
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Are There No Hard Limits On Financial Finagling?
Thursday, August 14, 2014 6:10 AM EDT
The hard limits are hidden, and we will discover them only when it's too late to modify the self-destructive behavior and policies we've pursued as "safe" and "forever."
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We're Relying On Phantom Wealth To Fund Our Retirement
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:10 AM EDT
The narrative that Social Security, Medicare and pension funds invested in stocks and bonds can fund the retirement of 65 million people is a misleading fantasy.
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It's Not Just Healthcare That's Bankrupt-It's Our Legal System, Too
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:03 AM EDT
What can you say about a "healthcare" system in which 99% of all physicians will face a malpractice claim in their careers?
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Here's Why Wages Might Rise Despite Millions Of Unemployed Being Available For Work
Monday, August 11, 2014 7:22 AM EDT
Tragically, the inability of our institutions to impart the skills required by the emerging economy hobble not just the unemployed but employers.
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A Brief Note On The Difference Between Trading And Investing
Friday, August 8, 2014 3:54 AM EDT
Investing in oneself and enterprises one actively controls may be the only legitimate deployment of capital that qualifies as an investment in the traditional sense.
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