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We Can Only Choose One: Our National Economy or Globalization

2019-11-28

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2019-11-28

The World Economy
The servitude of society to a globalized economy is generating extremes of insecurity, powerlessness and inequality. Does our economy serve our society, or does our society serve our economy, and by extension, those few who extract most of the economic benefits? It's a question worth asking, as beneath the political churn around the globe, the issues raised by this question are driving the frustration and anger that's manifesting in social and...

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Charles Hugh Smith on why Eastern Europe may be the Go To Place

2019-11-27

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Charles Hugh Smith on why Eastern Europe may be the Go To Place Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2019/11/27/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-why-eastern-europe-may-be-the-go-to-place/

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Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits

2019-11-25

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2019-11-25

Stripmining the planet to maximize profits isn't progressive or renewable--it's just exploitive and destructive. How do we describe the finding that the planet's most widely-owned super-corporation is destroying the planet to maximize its smartphone sales and profits? Shall we start with "inconvenient?" Yes, we're talking about Apple, famous for coercing customers to upgrade their Apple phones and other gadgets if not annually then every couple...

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What’s Been Normalized? Nothing Good or Positive

2019-11-23

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2019-11-23

What's been normalized are policies and cultural norms that seek to enrich and protect the few at the expense of the many. When the initially extraordinary fades into the unremarkable background of everyday life, we say it's been normalized. Put another way, we quickly habituate to new conditions, and rationalize our ready acceptance of what was previously unacceptable.

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Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why

2019-11-20

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2019-11-20

Macro Messages 2019
All the status quo "fixes" only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident. What's open to debate are the core drivers of conflict / disorder /unraveling. Here's the core self-reinforcing dynamic in my view: 1. The status quo elites can no longer mask soaring costs of essentials nor soaring wealth / income inequality between the top .01% (Oligarchs), the top 9.99% who enrich...

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If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top?

2019-11-19

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2019-11-19

Fed balance sheet 2018-2019
Can $300 billion, or $600 billion, or even $1 trillion continue to prop up an increasingly risk-riddled, fragile $330 trillion global bubble in overvalued assets? When is "Not-QE" QE? When Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell declares QE is not QE. We can constructively recall the story that Abraham Lincoln famously recounted in 1862: 'If I should call a sheep's tail a leg, how many legs would it have?'

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Stock Market Cheerleading: Why Do We Celebrate the Super-Rich Getting Richer?

2019-11-14

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2019-11-14

It's not too difficult to predict a political rebellion against the machinery of soaring wealth and income inequality. The one constant across the media-political spectrum is an unblinking focus on the stock market as a barometer of the national economy: every major media outlet from the New York Times to Fox News prominently displays stock market action, and TV news anchors' expressions reflect the media's emotional promotion of the market as the...

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Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next

2019-11-13

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2019-11-13

As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives for sociopathy only increase. "Sociopath" is a word we now encounter regularly in the mainstream media, but what does it mean? Here is a list of 16 traits, many of which are visible in lionized corporate and political leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Charles Hugh Smith: FINANCIAL APOCALYPSE – REAL ESTATE PLUNGING – GREAT DEPRESSION 2.0

2019-11-10

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The Middle Class Is Now The Muddle Class

2019-11-05

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2019-11-05

Workers share of national income, 1994-2020
The net result is the muddle class has the signifiers but not the wealth, power, capital or agency that once defined the middle class. The first use of the phrase The Muddle Class appears to be The rise of the muddle classes (Becky Pugh, telegraph.co.uk) in January 2007. The "muddle" described the complex nature of defining "the middle class," which includes education, class origins, accents, and many other financial, social and cultural...

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The Political Parties and the Media Have Abandoned the Working “Middle Class”

2019-10-31

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2019-10-31

Real Average Household Income, 1965-2015
Where is the line between "working class" and "middle class"? Maybe there isn't any. Defining the "middle class" has devolved to a pundit parlor game, so let's get real for a moment (if we dare): the "middle class" is no longer defined by the traditional metrics of income or job type (blue collar, white collar), but by an entirely different set of metrics:

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Charles Hugh Smith new book – Will You Be Richer Or Poorer?

2019-10-25

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Charles Hugh Smith new book – Will You Be Richer Or Poorer? Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2019/10/25/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-new-book-will-you-be-richer-or-poorer/

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH – Whole Political Severe Is Highly Polarized Now

2019-10-24

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The Unraveling Quickens

2019-10-24

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2019-10-24

Income Gains, 1980-2015
Even if we don't measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book Will You Be Richer or Poorer? is the financial "wealth" we've supposedly gained (or at least a few of us have gained) in the past 20 years has masked the unraveling of our intangible capital: the resilience of our economy, our social capital, i.e. our ability...

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Prying Open the Overton Window

2019-10-22

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2019-10-22

Acceleration of Technological Adoption Curves, 1867-2017
If you're truly interested in finding solutions to humanity's pressing problems, then start helping us pry open the Overton Window. The Overton Window describes the spectrum of concepts, policies and approaches that can be publicly discussed without being ridiculed or marginalized as "too radical," "unworkable," "crazy," etc. 

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Charles Hugh Smith – The Financial System is Headed for Collapse

2019-10-21

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What We’ve Lost

2019-10-21

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2019-10-21

This is only a partial list of what we've lost to globalism, cheap credit and the Tyranny of Price which generates the Landfill Economy. A documentary on the decline of small farms and the rural economy in France highlights what we've lost in the decades-long rush to globalize and financialize everything on the planet-- what we call Neoliberalism, the ideology of turning everything into a global market controlled by The Tyranny of Price and cheap...

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Welcome to the USSR: the United States of Suppression and Repression

2019-10-19

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2019-10-19

workers share of national income, 1994-2020
We're all against "fake news," right? Until your content is deemed "fake news" in a "fake news" indictment without any evidence, trial or recourse. When propaganda is cleverly engineered, people don't even recognize it as propaganda: welcome to the USSR, the United States of Suppression and Repression. 

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Economic Decay Leads to Social and Political Decay

2019-10-18

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2019-10-18

Workers share of national income, 1994-2020
If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading quickly into every nook and cranny of the society and culture. It seems my rant yesterday (Let Me Know When It's Over) upset a lot of people, many of whom felt I trivialized the differences between the parties and all the reforms that people believe will right wrongs and reduce suffering.

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Let Me Know When It’s Over

2019-10-16

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2019-10-16

Maybe it's my cheap seat or my general exhaustion, but the whole staged spectacle is beyond tiresome; I've had my fill. Let me me know when it's over: yes, all of it: the impeachment, the trade dispute with China, U.S. involvement in Syria, the manic stock market rally and the 2020 election.

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