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Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Covid Vaccines (Because You Can’t Be Bullish Anymore)

2020-11-12

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2020-11-12

In such a highly polarized, politicized environment, is such a scrupulously objective study even possible? Now that we've had the happy-talk about Pfizer's messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccine (and noted that Pfizer's CEO sold the majority of his shares in the company immediately after the happy-talk), let's dig into messenger-RNA (mRNA) vaccines which are fast approaching regulatory approval. Some people have concluded vaccines are not safe,...

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No Wonder the Super-Rich Love Inflation

2020-11-10

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2020-11-10

Wilshire Total Market Cap Index vs. Nominal GDP, 1972-2020
Asset inflation benefits the super-rich more than anyone else because they own the vast majority of these assets. With the reflation euphoria running full blast, maybe central banks will finally get all that inflation they've been pining for. So let's ask cui bono--who will benefit from inflation?

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Forget GOAT, Look at GBOAT: The Greatest Bubble Of All Time

2020-11-09

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2020-11-09

Wilshire Total Market Cap Index vs. Nominal GDP, 1972-2020
So enjoy the GBOAT (greatest bubble of all time) but watch the clock. Sports fans debate who qualifies as GOAT--the greatest of all time: in hoops, Kobe, Jordan, Kareem, Magic; in boxing, Ali, and so forth. What we have today is GBOAT--the greatest bubble of all time That it's GOAT is beyond doubt, as the charts below reveal.

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Could ELECTION SHENANIGANS Investigation UNCOVER Something DEEPER??

2020-11-07

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH Joins Michelle To Discuss The Presidential Elections, Which Are About The American People's TRUST In Their Right To Chose Their Own President. Or Will America's President Be Selected For Us?

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Here’s Our Historical Analogy Menu: Rome, the USSR or Revolutionary France

2020-11-07

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2020-11-07

The core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large. There's a definite end of days feeling to the euphoria that the world didn't end on November 3. And what better way to celebrate the victory of what passes for normalcy with a manic stock market rally?

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Could ELECTION SHENANIGANS Investigation UNCOVER Something DEEPER?

2020-11-06

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What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government

2020-11-05

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2020-11-05

The rich get richer, 1980-2012
We're Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum and look behind the screen, we find the powers that matter are not elected: our owned by a few big banks Federal Reserve, run by a handful of technocrats, and the immense National Security State, a.k.a. the Permanent Government.

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Our Imperial Presidency

2020-11-04

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2020-11-04

US defense budget
Regardless of who holds the office, America's Imperial Project and its Imperial Presidency are due for a grand reckoning. While elections and party politics generate the emotions and headlines, the truly consequential change in American governance has been the ascendancy of the Imperial Presidency over the past 75 years, since the end of World War II.

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ALICE Doesn’t Work Here Anymore

2020-10-30

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2020-10-30

Wages share income,1960-2020
What the political class and the Financial Nobility don't yet grasp is that ALICE will never go back to her insecure, low-wage job, ever.

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Flying Blind: Clueless about Risk, We’re Speeding Toward Systemic Failure

2020-10-29

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2020-10-29

For all these reasons, the risks of systemic collapse are much higher than commonly anticipated. There's an irony in discussing risk: since we all have an instinctive reaction to visible risk, we think we understand it.

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How Systems Collapse: Reaping What We’ve Sown

2020-10-27

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2020-10-27

Don't expect healthcare or any other hollowed-out, heavily optimized system to function as it once did. A great many Americans will be shocked when our healthcare systems start failing because they believed the PR that "we have the finest healthcare system in the world.

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Next Up: Global Depression

2020-10-26

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2020-10-26

The belief that central banks printing currency can "buy/fix" everything that's broken, lost or scarce is the ultimate in denial, fantasy and magical thinking. Let's revisit the pandemic projection chart I prepared on February 2, 2020, nine days after authorities publicly acknowledged the Covid virus outbreak in China.

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Charles Hugh Smith on Inflation

2020-10-23

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Charles Hugh Smith on Inflation

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Everything is Staged

2020-10-22

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2020-10-22

All the staging is a means to an end, and everyone in America is nothing more than a means to an end: close the sale so the few can continue exploiting the many. You know how realtors stage a house to increase its marketability: first, they remove all evidence that people actually live there.

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The New Tyranny Few Even Recognize

2020-10-21

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2020-10-21

Clearly, the Fed reckons the public is foolish enough to believe the Fed's money will actually be "free." It's pretty much universally recognized that authorities use crises to impose "emergency powers" that become permanent.

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Charles Hugh Smith: Entrepreneur Skills A Must for Any Job

2020-10-20

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Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed economic blogger and author Charles Hugh Smith from the popular blog Of Two Minds

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Will the Stock Market Be Dragged to the Guillotine?

2020-10-20

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2020-10-20

The Fed's rigged-casino stock market will be dragged to the guillotine by one route or another. The belief that the Federal Reserve and its rigged-casino stock market are permanent and forever is touchingly naive. Never mind the existential crises just ahead; the financial "industry" (heh) projects unending returns of 7% per year, or is it 14% per year?

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Why We’re Doomed: Our Delusional Faith in Incremental Change

2020-10-16

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2020-10-16

Incremental delusion
Better not to risk any radical evolution that might fail, and so failure is thus assured. When times are good, modest reforms are all that's needed to maintain the ship's course. By "good times," I mean eras of rising prosperity which generate bigger budgets, profits, tax revenues, paychecks, etc., eras characterized by high levels of stability and predictability.

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Our Simulacrum Economy

2020-10-13

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2020-10-13

In the hyper-real casino, everyone has access to the terrors of losing, but only a few know the joys of the rigged games that guarantee a few big winners by design. Readers once routinely chastised me for over-using simulacrum to describe our economy and society.

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A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall

2020-10-09

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2020-10-09

The status quo is about to discover that it can't stop the hard rain or protect its fragile sandcastles. You'll recognize A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall as a cleaned-up rendition of Bob Dylan's classic "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall".

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