What Lies Ahead: Destabilizing Social Stratification
The bill for extreme wealth/income inequality is now overdue, and the penalties for ignoring the bill will be as extreme as the inequality…
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Opting Out, American Style
Virtually nothing in America’s top-down financial and political realms is actually transparent, accountable, authentic or honest…
Continue readingHere’s Why the Economy Won’t Recover… And No, It’s Not Covid-19 or the Lockdowns
When reality and truth become the sworn enemies of society’s political and economic elites, the society is well and truly doomed…
Continue readingAn Embarrassed, Insulted And Ashamed Boomer’s Plea
They’re not kicking a can down the road; they’re kicking a ticking time bomb of social unrest & civil disobedience directly into the laps of their children…
Continue readingEyes Wide Open: ‘Masters Of The Universe’ To Notice No One Takes Them Seriously Anymore?
The mask is off: Is this the point of inflection for the global order, when the western hyper-financialized system is unable to reform itself?
Continue readingIs the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question
Eventually, the coronavirus will subside; but what will America look like when it does?
Continue readingCould China’s Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control?
The external shock of the coronavirus has revealed the fragilities and weaknesses of China’s social, political and financial orders…
Continue readingKABOOM! Wednesday Morning Cartel Bombing Runs On Gold & Silver
SD Midweek Update: Maybe we can finally get to that all-important “extremely oversold” condition in the gold & silver “markets”?
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder And Collapse
The frantic efforts of am exploitive elite to eliminate dissent only accelerates the regime’s path to collapse…
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 readingWhen Karma Crushes Dogma The Stock Market Crashes
When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion…
Continue readingWill Everything Change in 2020-2025 or Will Nothing Change?
Any domino-like expanding crisis will unfold in a status quo lacking any coherent response…
Continue readingThe Media, Mueller, The Big Con & Democratization Of Narrative
Falling for a con is painful. The first reaction is to deny being conned, of course. The second is to blame skeptics for being correct in their skepticism…
Continue readingHow Empires Collapse In Four Easy Steps
The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies…
Continue readingMarkets Change And Move In Cycles: Everybody Needs Some Exposure To Gold
Markets move in cycles, the status quo changes, and assets become misunderstood. Here are even more reasons why everybody needs gold exposure…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Let’s Face It – The US Constitution Has Failed
Elections provide the bread-and-circuses staged drama that is passed off as democracy…
Continue readingWhy Everything That Needs To Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken
Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: The status quo in Europe is doomed…
Continue readingIs This Really “The Most Important Election Of Our Lives” Or Just Another Distraction?
The problem isn’t polarization, rather, neither flavor of the status quo is actually solving any of the nation’s most pressing system problems. Here’s more…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Out
An unknown but likely staggeringly large percentage of small business owners in the U.S. are an inch away from calling it quits and closing shop…
Continue readingNo Matter How You Vote, The New Congress Won’t Represent You
“…its hard to see how we can also call this “representative” or a system that transmits “consent” from the voters to…”
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