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Our Intellectual Bankruptcy: The “Religion” of Economics, UBI and Medicare For All

2017-04-23

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2017-04-23

Growth of Physicians and Administrators, 1970 - 2009
1. Mainstream neo-classical/ Keynesian economics. As economist Manfred Max-Neef notes in this interview, neo-classical/ Keynesian economics is no longer a discipline or a science--it is a religion. It demands a peculiar faith in nonsense: for example, the environment--Nature-- is merely a subset of the economy.

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RMR: Exclusive Interview with Charles Hugh Smith (04/18/2017)

2017-04-22

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“V” and CJ are joined by Charles H Smith to discuss the power and future of bitcoin. Charles also shares his thoughts on the current economic outlook and effective ways to prepare for various economic hardships. Link to Charles’s work at “Of Two Minds” http://www.oftwominds.com/ We are political scientists, editorial engineers, and radio show developers …

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The Left’s Descent to Fascism

2017-04-19

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2017-04-19

The Left is morally and fiscally bankrupt, devoid of coherent solutions, and corrupted by its embrace of the Corporatocracy. History often surprises us with unexpected ironies. For the past century, the slide to fascism could be found on the Right (conservative, populist, nationalist political parties).

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Central Banks Have Manipulated The Markets Which Will Ultimately Crash: Charles Hugh Smith

2017-04-19

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Today’s Guest: Charles Hugh Smith Websites: Of Two Minds http://www.oftwominds.com Books: Get a Job, Build a Real Career… Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It Most of artwork that are included with these videos have been created by X22 Report and they are used as a representation of the subject …

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Charles Hugh Smith On The Commercial Real Estate Bubble Caused By Financial Repression

2017-04-16

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Click here for the full transcript with slides: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2017/04/16/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-the-commercial-real-estate-bubble-caused-by-financial-repression/

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Charles Hugh Smith–Wither The Suburb? #3536

2017-04-16

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While much has been written about the massive retail decline in America, Charles sheds interesting light upon another core cause of the retail apocalypse. Namely, Millennials, due to staggering student loan debt, have lowered expectations and are staying close to urban downtowns. They have smaller homes, less need for expensive furnishings and have often shed …

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Millennials Are Abandoning the Postwar Engines of Growth: Suburbs and Autos

2017-04-14

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2017-04-14

U.S. Retail Stores 2000-2017
Where's the growth going to come from as the dominant generation makes less, borrows less, spends less, saves more and turns away from long commutes, malls and suburban living and abandons the worship of private vehicles?

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Who’s Playing The Long Game–and What’s Their Game Plan?

2017-04-13

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2017-04-13

S-curve of Rapid Expansion
When we speak of The Long Game, we speak of national/alliance policies that continue on regardless of what political party or individual is in office. The Long Game is always about the basics of national survival: control of and access to resources, and jockeying to diminish the power and influence of potential adversaries while strengthening one's own power and influence.

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When the “Solutions” Become the Problems

2017-04-04

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2017-04-04

Lifecycle of Bureaucracy
Those benefiting from these destructive "solutions" may think the system can go on forever, but it cannot go on when every "solution" becomes a self-reinforcing problem that amplifies all the other systemic problems.

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Do the Roots of Rising Inequality Go All the Way Back to the 1980s?

2017-04-02

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2017-04-02

US Household Wealth, 1917 - 2017
Unless we change the fundamental structure of the economy so that actually producing goods and services and hiring people is more profitable than playing financial games with phantom assets, the end-game of financialization is financial collapse. I presented this chart of rising wealth inequality a number of times over the past year. Do you notice something peculiar about the inflection points in the 1980s?

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Forget ObamaCare, RyanCare, and any Future ReformCare-the Healthcare System Is Completely Broken

2017-03-27

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2017-03-27

U.S. Healthcare System
It's time to start planning for what we'll do when the current healthcare system implodes. As with many other complex, opaque systems in the U.S., only those toiling in the murky depths of the healthcare system know just how broken the entire system is.

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The Deep State’s Dominant Narratives and Authority Are Crumbling

2017-03-26

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2017-03-26

boris and natasha
This is why the Deep State is fracturing: its narratives no longer align with the evidence. As this chart from Google Trends illustrates, interest in the Deep State has increased dramatically in 2017. The term/topic has clearly moved from the specialist realm to the mainstream. I've been writing about the Deep State, and specifically, the fractures in the Deep State, for years.

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Central Bankers Are Creating A World Where We Are All Serfs: Charles Hugh Smith

2017-03-25

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Today’s Guest: Charles Hugh Smith Websites: Of Two Minds http://www.oftwominds.com Books: Get a Job, Build a Real Career… Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It A Radically Beneficial World http://amzn.com/1517160960 Most of artwork that are included with these videos have been created by X22 Report and they are used as …

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Solutions Abound–on the Local Level

2017-03-20

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2017-03-20

S-Cruve of Centralization
Rather than bemoan the inevitable failure of centralized "fixes," let's turn our attention and efforts to the real solutions: decentralized, networked, localized.Those looking for centralized solutions to healthcare, jobs and other "macro-problems" will suffer inevitable disappointment. The era in which further centralization provided the "solution" has passed: additional centralization (Medicare for All, No Child Left Behind, federal job training,...

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Now That Everyone’s Been Pushed into Risky Assets…

2017-03-16

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2017-03-16

Global Financial Assets, 2005 - 2014
If we had to summarize what's happened in eight years of "recovery," we could start with this: everyone's been pushed into risky assets while being told risk has been transformed from something to avoid (by buying risk-off assets) to something you chase to score essentially guaranteed gains (by buying risk-on assets).

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Charles Hugh Smith On Inequalities And The Distortions Caused By Central Bank Policies

2017-03-13

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FRA is joined by Charles Hugh Smith in discussing income inequality as a result of central bank policies Charles Hugh Smith is a contributing editor to PeakProsperity.com and the proprietor of the popular blog OfTwoMinds.com. He is the author of numerous books, including Why Everything Is Falling Apart: An Unconventional Guide To Investing In Troubled …

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The Next Domino to Fall: Commercial Real Estate

2017-03-12

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2017-03-12

Just as generals prepare to fight the last war, central banks prepare to battle the last financial crisis--which in the present context means a big-bank liquidity meltdown like the one that nearly toppled thr global financial system in 2008-09.

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Are Central Banks Losing Control?

2017-03-11

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2017-03-11

China Debt, 2002 - 2016
If you want a central banker to choke on his croissant, read him this quote from socio-historian Immanuel Wallerstein: "Countries (have lost the ability) to control what happens to them in the ongoing life of the modern world-system."

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Interview Questions For Charles Hugh Smith Exclusive March 2017

2017-03-10

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Interview Questions For Charles Hugh Smith Exclusive March 2017, Interview Questions For Charles Hugh Smith Exclusive March 2017

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MACRO ANALYTICS – 03 03 17 – Is Retail CRE The Next Financial Implosion? – w/Charles Hugh Smith

2017-03-05

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ABSTRACT: https://matasii.com/is-retail-commercial-real-estate-the-next-financial-implosion/

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