By Charles Hugh Smith The bear has awakened, and it will not be limited to the stock market. The bear awakens from a long,…
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By Charles Hugh Smith In other words, our economy and society have been optimized for failure. If we look at the fragility and instability…
By Charles Hugh Smith Global supply chain logjams and global credit/financial crises aren’t bugs, they’re intrinsic features of Neoliberalism’s fully financialized global economy. To understand…
By Charles Hugh Smith So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don’t be surprised if bad things start…
By Charles Hugh Smith As the chart below on ‘how systems collapse’ illustrates, the loss of stabilizing buffers goes unnoticed until the entire structure collapses…
By Charles Hugh Smith What’s striking about our thought experiment is how little reliable data we have about the transmissibility of our hypothetical Virus Z and the…
By Charles Hugh Smith The lesson of China’s Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable)…
President Trump on Wednesday said he would remove some U.S. troops from Germany and relocate them to Poland and other European and U.S. locations,…
So what do we know with any sort of certainty about the claim that “the pandemic is over”? Very little. Is the pandemic over in…