Charles Hugh Smith archives 08/06/2016 What Happens When Rampant Asset Inflation Ends? 01/07/2015 A World Ruled by Hubris, Willful Blindness & Desperation 09/18/2014 Why the USD May Remain Strong For Longer Than We Think 04/05/2014 What Happens After the Low-Hanging Fruit Has Been Picked? 03/21/2014 The Federal Reserve: Masters of the Universe or Trapped Incompetents? 03/14/2014 OT What Happened to Flight 370? 07/17/2013 Get Ready for Rising Commodity Prices 07/06/2013 The Next American Revolution 07/04/2013 Opportunity Squandered: We Blew It 03/21/2013 How I Became a Trillionaire (and Some Thoughts on Inflation) 02/27/2013 The Unsafe Foundation of Our Housing 'Recovery' 01/09/2013 The Trends to Watch in 2013 07/21/2012 What's So Bad About Deflation? Nothing, If You own the Debt 07/19/2012 Macro Analytics STATISM Part II 07/18/2012 Macro Analytics STATISM Part I 07/15/2012 Financialization & Crony Capitalism Have Gutted the Middle Class 06/27/2012 Some Thoughts on Investing in the "Bottom" in Housing 06/23/2012 When Will the Stock Market Finally Hit Bottom? 06/13/2012 Peak Everything 05/16/2012 Greece's New Currency, the U.S. Dollar 05/04/2012 Future Economy, Future Stability, Future Careers 04/28/2012 What Happens When All the Money Vanishes Into Thin Air? 04/16/2012 When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End? 04/11/2012 Calling All Crash Test Dummies: Big Crash Ahead 04/04/2012 There Is No Shortcut, But All We Have Are Shortcuts 03/10/2012 Our "Let's Pretend" Economy 03/01/2012 If The Market Rolls Over Here.... 02/27/2012 What Rising Gasoline Prices Do to the Economy 02/19/2012 Do We Really Know Greece's Default Will Be Orderly? 02/02/2012 Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy 01/29/2012 Between Various Rocks and Various Hard Places 11/21/2011 The Future of Work 11/03/2010 Look Out Below Part 2 10/27/2010 The Well Has Been Poisoned 10/17/2010 Our Culture of Financial Fraud & the Anger of the Honest 10/17/2010 The Coming Collapse of the Real Estate Market 10/09/2010 Look Out Below 09/14/2010 The Myth of 'Decoupling' & the Chinese Consumer 08/04/2010 Why Japan Is Doomed (US & EU, too) 07/12/2010 The Con of the Decade Pt. 2 07/10/2010 The Con of the Decade Pt. 1 05/15/2010 Could the Stock Market Crash in 2010? 03/10/2010 Why California Is Doomed 10/21/2009 Local Government's New Debtors Prisons 09/25/2009 When Housing Is Priced in Gold 06/24/2009 Devolution: 20 Predictions