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Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come

The sense that we’re approaching a tipping point into a crisis with no easy resolution is pervasive, a sense that beneath the veneer of…

5 min read18 hours ago

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The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come

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Charles Hugh Smith

How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough to Buy the Boomers’ Millions of Unaffordable Bungalows?

There’s a peculiarly flawed logic behind the widely held view that the Baby Boomers will seamlessly transfer tens of trillions of dollars…

5 min read2 days ago

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How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough to Buy the Boomers’ Millions of Unaffordable Bungalows?

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Charles Hugh Smith

Financial Nihilism and the Collapsing American Dream

America has become a nation bifurcated into haves and have-nots, and this is generating large-scale, enduring economic, social and…

5 min read3 days ago

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Financial Nihilism and the Collapsing American Dream

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Charles Hugh Smith

If AI Is So Great, Prove It: Eliminate All Surveillance, Spam and Robocalling

Judging by the near-infinite hype spewed about AI, its power is practically limitless: it’s going to do all our work better and cheaper…

3 min read4 days ago

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If AI Is So Great, Prove It: Eliminate All Surveillance, Spam and Robocalling

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Charles Hugh Smith

Our Crisis of Competence

That America is mired in a crisis of competence appears to be yet another issue that can’t be addressed directly as it might upset the…

3 min read4 days ago

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Charles Hugh Smith

Having Too Much Money Leads to Catastrophe

Money being scarce saves us from many pernicious forms of mischief, and having too much money/credit leads to catastrophe. This is of…

3 min read4 days ago

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Having Too Much Money Leads to Catastrophe

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Charles Hugh Smith

Bubble Symmetry: Could the NASDAQ Drop 60% and Round-Trip to 2,500?

Speculative bubbles are interesting because they’re never bubbles in real time; they’re only recognized as bubbles after they’ve popped, as…

5 min readJun 2, 2024

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Bubble Symmetry: Could the NASDAQ Drop 60% and Round-Trip to 2,500?

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Charles Hugh Smith

The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear

One of the lesser known manifestations of the inflationary crisis in early-1920s Germany was rampant wage inflation. Bourgeois burghers…

4 min readJun 2, 2024

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The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear

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Charles Hugh Smith

Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”?

This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game of nation-states / central banks…

6 min readMay 31, 2024

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Is Hyper-Inflation that Destroys a Currency a “Solution”?

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Charles Hugh Smith

Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems?

Money in all its forms attracts quasi-religious beliefs and convictions. This makes it difficult to discuss with anything resembling…

6 min readMay 31, 2024

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Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems?

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Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

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