Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire
The Empire is striking back, protecting what really counts, and the Billionaire Bubble sideshow is folding its tents…
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Charles Hugh Smith: Move Out Of The Unraveling City BEFORE Economic Collapse
Systemically, the US is undergoing socio-economic collapse, which means that individually, we all have to…
Continue readingThe Economy / Market Look “Healthy” Until They Have a Seizure and Collapse
So one index or asset or another hits a new high, wow, more proof everything is so robust and healthy, we never had it so good–right up to the…
Continue readingWhat Will Surprise Us in 2022
What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as…
Continue readingSleepwalking Into the Abyss in 2022
What would be truly optimistic would be to surrender our dependence on asset bubbles and malinvested debt to prop up an unstable delusion of effortless “wealth”…
Continue readingHow Vulnerable Is Your Personal Supply Chain?
How vulnerable is your personal supply chain? For the average American, the answer is: very.
Continue readingGet in Crash Positions
When the market goes bidless, it’s too late to preserve capital, never mind all those life-changing gains…
Continue readingOnce Risk-On Switches to Risk-Off, the Bottom Is Far Lower Than Anyone Believes Possible
So here we are, witnessing the switch from risk-on to risk-off in real time…
Continue readingThe Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below
But alas, humans do not possess god-like powers, they only possess hubris, and so all bubbles pop: the more extreme the bubble, the more devastating the…
Continue readingWhy Inflation Is a Runaway Freight Train
The value of these super-abundant follies will trend rapidly to zero once margin calls and other bits of reality drastically reduce demand…
Continue readingWe Don’t Talk About Collapse To Revel In It, We Talk About Collapse to Prevent It
If one possible result of the current system is collapse, realizing the system itself must be changed isn’t doom-and-gloom, it’s problem-solving…
Continue readingTop 1% Gains More Wealth Than the Combined GDPs of Japan, Germany, UK, France, India and Italy, Bottom 50%–You Get Nothing
Given that political power in America is a pay-to-play auction in which the highest bidder wins, how this incomprehensibly lopsided ownership of…
Continue readingPaging Isaac Newton: Time to Buy the Top of This Bubble
Despite Newton’s tremendous intelligence and experience, he fell victim to the bubble along with the vast herd of credulous greedy punters…
Continue readingEight Reasons Scarcities Will Increase Rather Than Evaporate
Who knew it would be so easy? All we have to do is collect urine and we’ll be flying our electric air taxi tomorrow!
Continue readingSkimpflation, Shrinkflation and the Rising Rebellion of Workers and Consumers
While Corporate America is focusing on preserving its precious profits, its customers and workforce are rebelling by walking away…
Continue readingAmerica Is Now a Kleptocrapocracy
I hope everyone here is hungry because the banquet of consequences is being served…
Continue readingAre We Really Crazy Enough to Believe This Is Going to Work?
Unbeknownst to the giddy participants, they’re not just betting on the omnipotence of the Fed Politburo, they’re also making a max-leverage bet that…
Continue readingWhy Shortages Are Permanent: Global Supply Shortages Make Fantastic Financial Sense
The era of abundance was only a short-lived artifact of the initial boost phase of globalization and financialization…
Continue readingWhile Everyone Cheers Soaring “Wealth”, America’s Social Order Is Unraveling
So by all means, focus on the inexorable rise of stocks, cryptos and housing as “proof” of America’s soaring “wealth” while the social order…
Continue readingThe Market Crash Nobody Thinks Is Possible Is Coming
The banquet of consequences is being served, and risk-off crashes are, like revenge, best served cold…
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