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Fixing Infrastructure Isn’t as Simple as Spending Another Trillion Dollars

2018-10-02

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2018-10-02

Public Infrastructure Has Been Neglected
It isn't easy to add new subway lines or new highways, and so "solutions" don't really exist. If there's one thing Americans can still agree on, it's that America needs to spend more on infrastructure which is visibly falling apart in many places. This capital investment creates jobs and satisfies everyone's ideological requirements: investment in public infrastructure helps enterprises, local governments and residents.

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The Labor Shortage Is Real

2018-10-01

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2018-10-01

Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate 1960-2000
Few conventional-media commentators are willing or able to discuss these factors in the labor shortage / declining participation trends. Is there a labor shortage in the U.S.? Employers are shouting "yes." Economists keep looking for wage increases as evidence of a labor shortage, and since wage increases are still relatively modest, the argument that there are severe labor shortages in parts of the U.S. is unpersuasive to many conventional...

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Droit du Seigneur and the Neofeudal Privileges of Class in America

2018-09-26

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2018-09-26

Want to understand the full scope of neofeudalism in America? Follow the money and the power and privilege it buys. The repugnant reality of class privilege in America is captured by the phrase date rape: the violence of forced, non-consensual sex is abhorrent rape when committed by commoner criminals, but implicitly excusable date rape when committed by a member of America's privileged elite.

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Charles Hugh Smith On Insights Into Jobs For Displaced Workers Affected By Intelligent Automation

2018-09-24

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Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2018/09/24/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-insights-into-the-jobs-for-displaced-workers-affected-by-intelligent-automation/

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The Four Disastrous Presidential Policies That Are Destroying the Nation

2018-09-24

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2018-09-24

Bank Consolidation
It's admittedly a tough task to select the four most disastrous presidential policies of the past 60 years, given the great multitude to choose from. Here are my top choices and the reasons why I selected these from a wealth of policy disasters.

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When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End?

2018-09-23

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2018-09-23

S-curved of Rapid Expansion
Credit bubbles are not engines of sustainable employment, they are only engines of malinvestment and wealth destruction on a grand scale. We all know the Status Quo's response to the global financial meltdown of 2008 has been a travesty of a mockery of a sham--smoke and mirrors, flimsy facades of "recovery," simulacrum "reforms," serial bubble-blowing and politically expedient can-kicking, all based on borrowing and printing trillions of dollars,...

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Digging into Wealth and Income Inequality

2018-09-20

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2018-09-20

US Stock Market Bubble
The assets of U.S. households recently topped $100 trillion, yet another sign that everything is going swimmingly in the U.S. economy. Let's take a look at the Federal Reserve's Household Balance Sheet, which lists the assets and liabilities of all U.S. households in very big buckets (real estate: $25 trillion). (For reasons unknown, the Fed lumps non-profit assets and liabilities with households, but these modest sums are easily subtracted.)

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We’re All Speculators Now

2018-09-19

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2018-09-19

US Stock Market to GDP Ratio 1960-2020
When the herd thunders off the cliff, most participants are trapped in the stampede.. One of the most perverse consequences of the central banks "saving the world" (i.e. saving banks and the super-wealthy) is the destruction of low-risk investments: we're all speculators now, whether we know it or acknowledge it.

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ROGUE INTERVIEWS: Charles Hugh Smith – Of Two Minds (09/17/2018)

2018-09-18

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Massive Deficit Spending Greenlights Waste, Fraud, Profiteering and Dysfunction

2018-09-18

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2018-09-18

Household Inequality
The nice thing about free to me money from any source is the recipients don't have to change anything. Free money is the ultimate free-pass from consequence and adaptation: instead of having to make difficult trade-offs or suffer the consequences of profligacy, the recipients of free money are saved: they can continue on their merry way, ignoring the monumental dysfunction of their lifestyle.

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The Next Financial Crisis Is Right on Schedule (2019)

2018-09-13

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2018-09-13

S-curve of Rapid Expansion, Stagnation and Decline
Neither small business nor the bottom 90% of households can afford this "best economy ever." After 10 years of unprecedented goosing, some of the real economy is finally overheating: costs are heating up, unemployment is at historic lows, small business optimism is high, and so on--all classic indicators that the top of this cycle is in.

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH: U.S. Government Is Destroying Capitalism WORLDWIDE!

2018-09-11

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After 10 Years of “Recovery,” What Are Central Banks So Afraid Of?

2018-09-07

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2018-09-07

Central Bank Balance sheet
If the world's economies still need central bank life support to survive, they aren't healthy--they're barely clinging to life. The "recovery"/Bull Market is in its 10th year, and yet central banks are still tiptoeing around as if the tiniest misstep will cause the whole shebang to shatter: what are they so afraid of? 

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The Global Financial System Is Unraveling, And No, the U.S. Is Not immune

2018-09-05

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2018-09-05

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index
Currencies don't melt down randomly. This is only the first stage of a complete re-ordering of the global financial system. Take a look at the Shanghai Stock Market (China) and tell me what you see: A complete meltdown, right? More specifically, a four-month battle to cling to the key technical support of the 200-week moving average (the red line). Once the support finally broke, the index crashed.

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Why Is Productivity Dead in the Water?

2018-09-01

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2018-09-01

US Productivity Growth, 1980 - 2016
As the accompanying chart shows, productivity in the U.S. has been declining since the early 2000s. This trend mystifies economists, as the tremendous investments in software, robotics, networks and mobile computing would be expected to boost productivity, as these tools enable every individual who knows how to use them to produce more value.

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Here’s How We Ended Up with Predatory, Parasitic Elites

2018-08-29

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2018-08-29

Income Inequality, 1913 - 2012
Combine financialization, neoliberalism and moral bankruptcy, and you end up with predatory, parasitic elites. How did our financial and political elites become predatory parasites? Some will answer that elites have always been predatory parasites; as tempting as it may be to offer a blanket denunciation of elites, this overlooks the eras in which elites rose to meet existential crises. Following in Ancient Rome's Footsteps: Moral Decay,...

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To Understand America’s Neofeudal Economy, Start with Extortion

2018-08-28

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2018-08-28

US Inflation, 1996 - 2016
Let's spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height of feudalism, and imagine we're trying to get a boatload of goods to the nearest city to sell. As we drift down the river, we're constantly being stopped and charged a fee for transiting one small fiefdom after another. When we finally reach the city, there's an entry fee for bringing our goods to market.

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How “Wealthy” Would We Be If We Stopped Borrowing Trillions Every Year?

2018-08-24

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2018-08-24

US Total Credit Market Debt
These charts reflect a linear system that is wobbling into the first stages of non-linear destabilization. The widespread presumption is the U.S. is wealthy beyond words, and will remain so as far as the eye can see: wealthy enough to fund trillion-dollar weapons systems, trillion-dollar endless wars, multi-trillion dollar Medicare for all, multi-trillion dollar Universal Basic Income, and so on, in an endless profusion of endless trillions....

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RMR: Special Guest – Charles Hugh Smith – Of Two Minds (08/20/2018)

2018-08-20

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If You Want to Survive this Election with Your Mental Health Intact, Turn Off the “News” and Social Media Now

2018-08-19

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2018-08-19

Media Concentration
If you want to preserve your sanity and avoid unhappy derangement, turn off all corporate and social media from now to Thanksgiving. Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election--if you are gullible enough to watch the "news" and tune into social media.Elections are extremely profitable because candidates spend scads of cash on media...

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