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Charles Hugh Smith On Pathfinding Our Destiny Amidst Social & Political Disunity

2019-01-25

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Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2019/01/24/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-pathfinding-our-destiny-amidst-social-political-disunity/

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH – Breakdown In The Global System- Self-Reinforcing Recession

2019-01-24

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MH17: can Russia be held to account? | The Economist

2019-01-24

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Australia and the Netherlands say Russia is responsible for shooting down flight MH17 in 2014. The families of the 298 victims want justice—but which court can give it to them? Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films.economist.com/ Check out The Economist’s full video catalogue: http://econ.st/20IehQk …

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Gentrified Urban America Will Be Hit Hard by the Recession

2019-01-24

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2019-01-24

Retail Square Footage per Capita
Combine sky-high commercial rents in homogenized, gentrified urban areas and sharp declines in the incomes of the limited populace who can afford gentrified urban areas and what do you get? A number of macro dynamics have set up gentrified urban America for a big fall in the coming recession.

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CHARLES HUGH SMITH RED ALERT – Why We Are Going Toward Venezuela’s Path

2019-01-23

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The Awakening Is Now Going World Wide, The Movement Has Started:Charles Hugh Smith

2019-01-23

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Today’s Guest: Charles Hugh Smith Website: Of Two Minds http://oftwominds.com Blog https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html 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 matter. The representative artwork included with these videos shall not be construed as the actual events that are …

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Brexit, EU, Germany, China and Yellow Vests In 2019 – Something Wicked This Way Comes

2019-01-23

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2019-01-23

Germany GDP, 2014 - 2018
“Something wicked this way comes” warns John Mauldin. Shaky China: Chinese landing could be harder than expected. Brexit and EU Breakage: “I have long thought the EU will eventually fall apart”. Helpless Europe: If Germany sneezes, their banks & the rest of continent catches cold. We may see “yellow vests” spread globally: Economics is about to get interesting …

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Congo: the race to beat Ebola | The Economist

2019-01-22

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Congo is in the grip of another Ebola outbreak, which has killed up to 400 people. There is no effective treatment for the deadly virus, but pioneering drug trials are under way Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films.economist.com/ Check out The Economist’s full video …

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

2019-01-22

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Want to Heal the Internet? Ban All Collection of User Data

2019-01-22

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2019-01-22

Internet Usage Growth Solid, 2008 - 2015
The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they're reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive politicos to leave their vast skimming operations untouched.

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Two Ways the System Is Rigged: HFT and Oligarchic Inheritance

2019-01-21

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2019-01-21

Soaring Income Inequality
We often hear how the system (i.e. our economy) is rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many, but exactly how is it rigged? Longtime correspondent Zeus Y. recently highlighted two specific mechanisms that favor the top 0.01%: high frequency trading (HFT) and oligarchic inheritance, the generational transfer of immense wealth and the power it buys.

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Charles Hugh Smith JAN 2019 Central Banks Have Manipulated The Markets Which Will Ultimately Crash

2019-01-20

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Hall of Mirrors, Where’d The Labor Shortage Go?

2019-01-20

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2019-01-20

Federal Reserve Beige Book 2010-2019
Today was supposed to see the release of the Census Bureau’s retail trade report, a key data set pertaining to the (alarming) state of American consumers, therefore workers by extension (income). With the federal government in partial shutdown, those numbers will be delayed until further notice. In their place we will have to manage with something like the Federal Reserves’ Beige Book.

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How can Britain fix Brexit? | The Economist

2019-01-19

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Parliament’s rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit plan has created a democratic mess. The Economist’s Britain editor, Tom Wainwright, explains how the country got into this muddle, and the solution for getting out. Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films.economist.com/ Check out The Economist’s full video …

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That’s A Big Minus

2019-01-19

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2019-01-19

Europe Industrial Production 2013-2018
Goods require money to finance both their production as well as their movements. They need oil and energy for the same reasons. If oil and money markets were drastically awful for a few months before December, and then purely chaotic during December, Mario Draghi of all people should’ve been paying attention.

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Spreading Sour Not Soar

2019-01-18

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2019-01-18

Sweden / Japan
We are starting to get a better sense of what happened to turn everything so drastically in December. Not that we hadn’t suspected while it was all taking place, but more and more in January the economic data for the last couple months of 2018 backs up the market action. These were no speculators looking to break Jay Powell, probing for weakness in Mario Draghi’s resolve.

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Charles Hugh Smith JAN 18, 2019 We Already Passed The Point Of No Return Collapse is Inevitable !

2019-01-18

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As Germany and France Come Apart, So Too Will the EU

2019-01-17

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2019-01-17

German Unification 1865-1871
If we follow the logic and evidence presented in these seven points, we are forced to conclude that the fractures in France, Germany and the EU are widening by the day. When is a nation-state no longer a functional state? It's an interesting question to ask of the European nation-states trapped in the devolving European Union.

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The future of work: is your job safe? | The Economist

2019-01-16

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The world of work will be radically different in the future. From hyper-surveillance of staff to digital nomadism to robots taking jobs—how, where and why we work is changing beyond all recognition. Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy This is the workforce of the future. Technology is transforming the world of …

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Insight Japan

2019-01-16

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2019-01-16

Japan CPI Food, Jan 2013 - 2019
As I wrote yesterday, “In the West, consumer prices overall are pushed around by oil. In the East, by food.” In neither case is inflation buoyed by “money printing.” Central banks both West and East are doing things, of course, but none of them amount to increasing the effective supply of money. Failure of inflation, more so economy, the predictable cost.

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