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Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo

2018-03-22

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2018-03-22

Lifecycle of Bureaucracy
Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I've outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? and Checking In on the Four Intersecting Cycles. I appreciate the request, because it's all too easy to dwell on what's broken rather than on the difficult task of fixing what's broken.

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Is Profit-Maximizing Data-Mining Undermining Democracy?

2018-03-21

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2018-03-21

Dominance of Google and Facebook, 2014 - 2015
As many of you know, oftwominds.com was falsely labeled propaganda by the propaganda operation known as ProporNot back in 2016. The Washington Post saw fit to promote ProporNot's propaganda operation because it aligned with the newspaper's view that any site that wasn't pro-status quo was propaganda; the possibility of reasoned dissent has vanished into a void of warring accusations of propaganda and "fake news" --which is of course propaganda in...

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Checking In on the Four Intersecting Cycles

2018-03-18

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2018-03-18

Intersection of Four Long-Term Cycles, 1900 - 2020
Correspondent James D. recently asked for an update on the four intersecting cycles I've been writing about for the past 10 years. Here's the chart I prepared back in 2008 of four long-term cycles: 1. Generational (political/social).2. Price inflation/wage stagnation (economic). 3. Credit/debt expansion/contraction (financial). 4. Relative affordability of energy (resources).

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How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It?

2018-03-18

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2018-03-18

Debt Securities and Loans, 1960 - 2018
Alas, fakery isn't actually a solution to fiscal/financial crisis.. This chart of "debt securities and loans"--i.e. total debt in the U.S. economy--is also a chart of the creation and distribution of new money, as the issuance of new debt is the mechanism in our financial system for creating (or "emitting" in economic jargon) new currency: when a bank issues a new home mortgage, for example, the loan amount is new currency created out of the...

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Charles Hugh SMITH: ALERT USAS DAY OF ECONOMIC RECKONING 2017

2018-03-18

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There is No “Free Trade”–There Is Only the Darwinian Game of Trade

2018-03-15

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2018-03-15

Corporate Profits After Tax, 1950 - 2018
Rising income and wealth inequality is causally linked to globalization and the expansion of Darwinian trade and capital flows. Stripped of lofty-sounding abstractions such as comparative advantage, trade boils down to four Darwinian goals: 1. Find foreign markets to absorb excess production, i.e. where excess production can be dumped. 2. Extract foreign resources at low prices. 3. Deny geopolitical rivals access to these resources.

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Forget “Free Trade”–It’s All About Capital Flows

2018-03-11

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2018-03-11

Corporate Profits after Tax, 1950 - 2017
Defenders and critics of "free trade" and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or: it's inherently good or bad. In the real world, it's not that simple. The confusion starts with defining free trade (and by extension, globalization).

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH – Has The Date Been Set For The Great Economic Collapse

2018-03-10

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Charles Hugh Smith What’s Your Job Worth work, money and automation

2018-03-10

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Charles Hugh Smith What’s Your Job Worth work, money and automation

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March 24, 2018 ! Charles Hugh Smith Has The Date Been Set For The Great Economic Collapse

2018-03-09

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Please Subscribe to my NEW Channel! Thank You. March 24, 2018 ! Charles Hugh Smith Has The Date Been Set For The Great Economic Collapse. Financial writer Charles Hugh Smith sees one very big problem coming at us, and that is a dramatic loss in buying power of the U.S. dollar, but it’s not just …

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The Death of Buy and Hold: We’re All Traders Now

2018-03-09

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2018-03-09

Asset Prices vs GDP, 1992 - 2016
The percentage of household assets invested in stocks fell from almost 40% in 1969 to a mere 13% in 1982, after thirteen years of grinding losses. The conventional wisdom of financial advisors--to save money and invest it in stocks and bonds "for the long haul"--a "buy and hold" strategy that has functioned as the default setting of financial planning for the past 60 years--may well be disastrously wrong for the next decade.

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Never Mind Volatility: Systemic Risk Is Rising

2018-03-07

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2018-03-07

S&P 500, 2008 - 2018
So who's holding the hot potato of systemic risk now? Everyone. One of the greatest con jobs of the past 9 years is the status quo's equivalence of risk and volatility: risk = volatility: so if volatility is low, then risk is low. Wrong: volatility once reflected specific short-term aspects of risk, but measures of volatility such as the VIX have been hijacked to generate the illusion that risk is low.

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Our Fragmented Labor Markets Defy Outdated Conventions

2018-03-03

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2018-03-03

Annual Growth of Hourly Earnings, Jan 1965 - 2018
There are hundreds of extraordinarily diverse labor markets in the U.S. economy, and it takes a much more granulated approach to make any sense of this highly fragmented and dynamic marketplace. onventional economists/media pundits typically view the labor market as monolithic, i.e. as one unified market. The reality is the labor market is highly fragmented. Thus it's little wonder that conventional measures are giving mixed signals on employment,...

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Charles Hugh Smith On The Current Conditions In The Financial Markets

2018-03-03

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Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2018/03/02/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-the-current-conditions-in-the-financial-markets/

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Career Advice to 20-Somethings: Create Value as a Mobile Creative

2018-03-02

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2018-03-02

Federal Government; Consumer Credit, Student Loans; Asset, Level, 2005 - 2018
Finding work that fits who you are is rarely easy, especially if you don't fit into the mainstream, and usually it requires a lot of compromises, hard work and dead-ends. But that’s the process. Establishing a satisfying career is difficult in today's economy, doubly so for those who find life within hierarchical institutions (corporate America and government) unrewarding, and triply so for those burdened with student loan debt and college...

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Venezuela’s New Cryptocurrency: Just Another Form of Control Fraud

2018-02-25

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2018-02-25

Black Market Exchange Rate, 2010 - 2018
The broke and broken country of Venezuela appears to be the first nation-state to issue a cryptocurrency token (the petro) as a means of escaping the financial black hole that's consuming its economy: Maduro Launches Oil-Backed Crypto "For The Welfare Of Venezuela".

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The End of (Artificial) Stability

2018-02-23

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2018-02-23

Asset Prices vs GDP, 1992 - 2016
The central banks'/states' power to maintain a permanent bull market in stocks and bonds is eroding. There is nothing natural about the stability of the past 9 years. The bullish trends in risk assets are artificial constructs of central bank/state policies. As these policies are reduced or lose their effectiveness, the era of artificial stability is coming to a close. The 9-year run of Bull-trend stability is ending as a result of a confluence of...

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Our Approaching Winter of Discontent

2018-02-20

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2018-02-20

Black Market Exchange Rate of Venezuelan Bolivar to US Dollar, 2010 - 2018
The tragedy is so few act when the collapse is predictably inevitable, but not yet manifesting in daily life. That chill you feel in the financial weather presages an unprecedented--and for most people, unexpectedly severe--winter of discontent. Rather than sugarcoat what's coming, let's speak plainly for a change: none of the promises that have been made to you will be kept.

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RMR: Special Guest – Charles Hugh Smith – Of Two Minds (02/19/2018)

2018-02-19

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Charles and “V” discuss the 13 indictments that show absolutely the stupidity of the Mueller investigation, the opportunity ahead with blockchain, cryptocurrency and why it’s important to take advantage now. We are political scientists, editorial engineers, and radio show developers drawn together by a shared vision of bringing Alternative news through digital mediums that evangelize …

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Charles Hugh Smith – All Currencies Will See Catastrophic Drop

2018-02-18

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Financial writer Charles Hugh Smith sees one very big problem coming at us, and that is a dramatic loss in buying power of the U.S. dollar, but it’s not just the dollar. According to Smith, “All these currencies, there is nothing backing the currencies except the government’s force. That’s the yen, the euro, the dollar …

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