The COSTS Of Essentials (Housing, Education & Healthcare) ARE SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
And how do we pay for these spiraling out of control costs? By borrowing more, of course…
Continue readingOf Two Minds
Crunchtime: When Events Outrun Plan B
Not only will events outrun Plan B, they’ll also outrun Plans C and D…
Continue readingCould America Survive A Truth Commission?
A nation no longer capable of naming names and reporting what actually happened richly deserves an economic and political collapse to match its moral collapse…
Continue readingWe Can Only Choose One…Our National Economy, Or Globalization
The servitude of society to a globalized economy is generating extremes of insecurity, powerlessness and inequality…
Continue readingDarn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying The Planet To Maximize Profits
The planet’s most widely-owned super-corporation is destroying the planet to maximize its smartphone sales and profits…
Continue readingWhat’s Been Normalized? Nothing Good Or Positive
What’s been normalized are policies and cultural norms that seek to enrich and protect the few at the expense of the many…
Continue readingPolitical And Social Conflict Are Accelerating: Here’s Why
All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident…
Continue readingIf QE Is “Not-QE”, Then Is A Blow Off Top “Not A Blow Off Top”?
The Fed’s level of panic is noteworthy, as is the absurd transparency of its laughable attempt to conceal its panic…
Continue readingWe’ve Incentivized Sociopaths In Our Markets, Economy And Politics…Guess What Happens Next?
As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives only increase…
Continue readingNo Recession, Ever Again? The Yellowstone Analogy
Central banks’ attempts to eliminate recessions insure a devastating financial fire that will burn down the entire global financial system…
Continue readingThe Middle Class Is Now The Muddle Class
The net result is the muddle class has the signifiers but not the wealth, power, capital or agency that once defined the middle class…
Continue readingHas California Lost The Mandate Of Heaven?
At that point, it’s too late: there’s no bid for overpriced decaying bungalows, overpriced tech stocks, etc…
Continue readingThe Unraveling Quickens
Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all ways…
Continue readingPrying Open The Overton Window
If you’re truly interested in finding solutions to humanity’s pressing problems, then start helping us pry open the Overton Window…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Economic Decay Leads To Social And Political Decay
If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading…
Continue readingLet Me Know When It’s Over
Maybe it’s my cheap seat or my general exhaustion, but the whole staged spectacle is beyond tiresome; I’ve had my fill…
Continue readingAmerica In 2019: Even The Wealthy Are Poorer In Everything That Matters
These are people at the apex of the American economy and society, and did everything right…
Continue readingWill The Clintons Destroy The Democratic Party?
History is full of ironies, and perhaps it will suit the irony gods for Trump to take down the Republican Party…
Continue readingCould Pricey Urban Meccas Become Crime-Ridden Ghost Towns?
As the exodus gathers momentum, all the reasons people clung so rabidly to urban meccas decay…
Continue readingWhen Karma Crushes Dogma The Stock Market Crashes
When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion…
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