The Curious Engineer

oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

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December 2012

  1. Doing Good, Doing Well
  2. Part 33: The see-saw of pleasure and loss (serialized fiction)
  3. The Fiscal Cliff's Structural Endgame
  4. No More Industrial Revolutions, No More Growth?
  5. More Cliffs Than Fiscal
  6. Why I Am Hopeful
  7. Thoughts on the Recent Tragedy
  8. Part 32: The picture of youth innocent of her own beauty
  9. The Upside of the Fiscal Cliff
  10. The Last Christmas in America?
  11. Santa, Please Let This Be the Last Christmas in America That "Saves" the U.S. Economy
  12. My Christmas Letter for 2012
  13. The Two Charts You Should See Before Risking a Dime in the Market in 2013
  14. Part 31: A Friend Is Lost
  15. Essays in Fragility: Shadow Banking, Housing Inventory and Liabilities
  16. Essays in Fragility: The Rise and Fall of Phantom Housing Collateral
  17. Essays in Fragility: The Efficient Subsidize the Inefficient
  18. Essays in Fragility: Our One-Off Economy
  19. Real Estate: Is the Bottom In, or Is This a Head-Fake?
  20. Part 30: "I have a huge weak spot for sexy neurotics."
  21. The Heart of Financialization: Counterfeiting Risk-Free Assets
  22. Is Real Food Expensive in America?
  23. The Obesity Puzzle
  24. Have Tax Revenues Topped Out?
  25. Pursuing Opportunities of the Past
  26. Part 29: An Allergic Change of Plan

November 2012

  1. The Benefits of Being Ordinary
  2. When Escape from a Previously Successful Model Is Impossible
  3. The Fiscal Cliff and the Grand Bargain
  4. Is This Recovery "Self-Sustaining" or Merely a Mind Trick?
  5. The Guilt-Free, Needless-Gift-Free Christmas
  6. Part 28: Low Spirits All Around
  7. On Gratitude and Wealth
  8. A Thanksgiving Story: How I Fell in Love with a Homeless Woman
  9. The American Diet: Self-Destruction Never Tasted So Good
  10. Our Dust Bowl Economy
  11. Understanding the "Exorbitant Privilege" of the U.S. Dollar
  12. Part 27: Second Thoughts of New Lovers
  13. Start Your Own Financial Media Channel with This Template
  14. The Nearly-Free University
  15. Is There Any Correlation Between the U.S. Dollar and Gold (Or Anything Else?)
  16. Welcome to the Nuthouse: How Private Financial Fiat Creates a Public Farce
  17. Is Democracy Possible in a Corrupt Society?
  18. Part 26: Tragic Aftermath: A Night on Vonda's Sofa
  19. Do We Have What It Takes To Get From Here To There? Part 2: China
  20. Do We Have What It Takes To Get From Here To There? Part 1: Japan
  21. The Case for a Constitutional Convention in 2016
  22. The Imperial Presidency
  23. The Center Cannot Hold: Kleptocracy Delegitimizes the Status Quo
  24. Part 25: Fire! (serialized fiction)
  25. In a Dysfunctional Status Quo, Reform Triggers Collapse
  26. The New Facebook Buttons: Promote, Despise, Abandon

October 2012

  1. The Financial Super-Storm of 2013
  2. The Fiscal Cliff and Peak Government
  3. Why Energy May Be Abundant But Not Cheap
  4. Part 24: A Very Surprising Surprise
  5. About Raising Taxes as the "Solution" to the Fiscal Cliff....
  6. The Fiscal Cliff and Demographic Drag
  7. Generational Wealth and Upward Mobility
  8. A Non-Corporate Model for the Localized Economy: Guilds
  9. The Three-and-a-Half Class Society
  10. Narcissistic Consumerism and Self-Destruction
  11. Narcissism, Consumerism and the End of Growth
  12. Japan and the Exhaustion of Consumerism
  13. The Hidden Cost of the "New Economy": New-Type Depression
  14. The Future of America Is Japan: Stagnation
  15. The Future of America Is Japan: Runaway Deficits, Runaway Debts
  16. Part 23: The Mysterious Masseur
  17. About That "No Recession" Call...
  18. The Pursuit of Happiness and the Sociopathology of Prosperity
  19. Energy Higher, Earnings Lower
  20. What Will Benefit from Global Recession? The U.S. Dollar
  21. The World's Largest Money-Laundering Machine: The Federal Reserve
  22. Part 22: Power Outage
  23. What Could Go Right?
  24. The Positive Power of Crisis
  25. Six Charts: Money, Oil and Credit
  26. If You Prop Up an Artificial Economy Long Enough, Does It Become Real?

September 2012

  1. The Source of High Inflation: Government Spending
  2. Part 21: The Oh-So-Critical Second Date
  3. The Siren Song of "Beautiful Deleveraging"
  4. Why QE Won't Create Inflation Quite as Expected
  5. Why QE May Not Boost Stocks After All
  6. China, Japan and the Senkaku Islands: The Roots of Conflict Go Back to 1274
  7. QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion?
  8. Part 20: Kylie's Painful Injury
  9. Housing, Diminishing Returns and Opportunity Cost
  10. The Next Eurozone Crisis
  11. The Inevitable Decline of Retail
  12. If You Want to Help the Poor and the Middle Class, Encourage Deflation
  13. The Fed Has Failed, Failed, Failed
  14. Part 19: A Wine-Soaked Promise
  15. We Need a New Stock Market
  16. Psychoanalyzing the Fed
  17. Cui Bono Fed: Who Benefits from the Federal Reserve?
  18. The Federal Reserve's Cargo Cult Magic: Housing Will Lift the Economy (Again)
  19. Hedging Against Capital Controls: Opening an Account Overseas
  20. Part 18: Sweet Payback
  21. Is Anybody Else Tired of Buying and Owning Stuff?
  22. The Great Game: Regime Change in Syria
  23. Now That The Easy Stuff Has Failed, All That's Left Is The Hard Stuff
  24. The Resilience and Fragility of the Status Quo
  25. Labor Day 2012: The Future of Work
  26. Part 17: A Very Mutual Dismay

August 2012

  1. The Real Reverse Robin Hood: Ben Bernanke and his Merry Band of Thieves
  2. What Will Be Scarce: Liquidity and Reliable Income Streams
  3. The Rot Runs Deep 3: The Capture of the Professional Class
  4. The Rot Runs Deep 2: Don't Call Out My Scam and I Won't Call Out Yours
  5. The Rot Runs Deep 1: The Federal Reserve Is a Parasitic Wealth Transfer Machine
  6. Part 16: The Negotiations Turn Nasty
  7. The Fantasy of Debt: No Trade-Offs, No Sacrifices
  8. Spreading Insolvency Around Does Not Create Solvency
  9. The Stock Market Is an "Attractive Nuisance" and Should Be Closed
  10. How to Cut America's Healthcare Spending by 50%
  11. A Sustainable National Healthcare System: Prevention Only
  12. Part 15: A Beggar's Banquet
  13. When the Weakest Critical Part Fails, the Machine Breaks Down
  14. Financialization's Self-Destruct Sequence
  15. We Are All Muppets Now
  16. Heightened Expectations and the Collapse of Credibility
  17. The Keys To Understanding the Collapse of the Status Quo: Credibility and Expectations
  18. Part 14: The Smitten Negotiators
  19. Money Down a Rathole: College, Healthcare, Housing
  20. A Common-Sense View of the Stock Market
  21. America 2012: Oh Say Can You Eat
  22. While All Eyes Are on Europe, Japan Circles a Black Hole
  23. A Little Perspective on What Lies Ahead
  24. Part 13: Robin Meets Kylie: Love AFS
  25. Health is Wealth Part 2: Expert Advice on Improving Fitness
  26. Health is Wealth Part 2: Expert Advice on Improving Fitness
  27. Health is Wealth: Prevention, Fitness and Strength

July 2012

  1. The Central Banking Theater of the Absurd
  2. The Grand Cycle Top in Everything
  3. Bernanke and Draghi Are Dangerous
  4. Are You Loving Your Servitude Yet?
  5. Global Crisis: the Convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka
  6. Before You "Buy the Dip," Look at These Two Charts
  7. Why the U.S. Dollar Is Not Going to Zero Anytime Soon
  8. Part 12: Robin Imagines Kylie, Wrongly
  9. What's So Bad About Deflation? Nothing, If You Own the Debt
  10. We've Decoupled, Alright--From Reality
  11. Organized Financial Crime Is Now the New Normal
  12. How White Collar Crime Became the "Business Model" of Corporate/State America
  13. Headwinds for Corporate Profits
  14. Part 11: Kylie, the Shocked Voyeur (serialized fiction)
  15. Financialization and Crony Capitalism Have Gutted the Middle Class
  16. Fed Has No Hammer, Uses Handsaw and Chisel to Pound Nails
  17. As M2 Money Supply Rolls Over, the Stock Market Will Follow
  18. The Global Economy: It's All About Increasing Leverage
  19. Election Year 2012: Two Landslides in the Making?
  20. Part 10: Under Protest, Ross Cross-Dresses
  21. Snapback: Stockton, Calif. and All the Cities to Follow
  22. The Real-World Middle Class Tax Rate: 75%
  23. Dear Person Seeking a Job: Why I Can't Hire You
  24. Sorry, Bucko, Europe Is Still in a Death Spiral

June 2012

  1. Part 9: Robin's Nightmare
  2. Why The Debt-Dependent Status Quo Is Doomed in One Chart
  3. Priced Out of the Middle Class
  4. Some Thoughts on Overseas Investing in U.S. Real Estate
  5. Some Thoughts on Investing in the "Bottom" in Housing
  6. When Will the Stock Market Finally Hit Bottom?
  7. Part 8: Alexia Whiffs Romance: All Strikes, No Hits
  8. The Solution to Concentrated Power: the Three Ds
  9. The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit: Centralization Has Failed
  10. The Housing Recovery: Based on What?
  11. Greek Theater Double-Feature: A Farce and a Tragi-comedy
  12. The Tiresome Eurozone Soap Opera Has Entered Re-Runs
  13. Part 7: Kylie's Blind Date (Serialized fiction)
  14. The Fed's Secret Phone Menu
  15. Black is White, Hedges are Bets, and Your Money is Mine (guest essay)
  16. Do the Parasitic Elite Pay Any Taxes?
  17. By Incentivizing Debt, We've Guaranteed Debt-Serfdom and Stagnation
  18. The Politics of "Consensus" Is the Politics of Failure
  19. Part 6: Kylie Caves In (serialized fiction)
  20. The "Solution" Is Collapse
  21. Is Capitalism Incompatible with Democracy?
  22. The Dominant Dynamic: Debt and Deleveraging
  23. "Monetary Easing" Fixes Nothing
  24. The We-Fixed-Nothing Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
  25. Part 5: Robin vs. the Axe Murderer (serialized fiction)
  26. Income Tax Solution: Apply Social Security Taxes to the Super-Wealthy

May 2012

  1. Income Disparity Solution: Restore the Minimum Wage to 1969 Levels
  2. "Big Idea Solution": Radically Lower the Cost Basis of the Entire Economy
  3. Safe Haven: Could U.S. Markets Rally in a Global Decoupling?
  4. U.S.A. 2012: Is This What We've Become?
  5. Part 4: A Feverish Whirl of Evil Intentions
  6. The Argument Industry: Hyping Controversy and Avoiding Solutions
  7. The E.U., Neofeudalism and the Neocolonial-Financialization Model
  8. Deflation, the Dollar and the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
  9. What Is Wealth?
  10. Feedback, Unintended Consequences and Global Markets
  11. Part 3, For Bidding For Love: Winner's Euphoria
  12. We Have Reached Peak Government
  13. That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Medicare
  14. That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Pensions
  15. A Crazy Idea That Might Just Work: Greece's New Currency, the U.S. Dollar
  16. Part 2: The Winning Bid and the Room of Doom
  17. The Kobayashi Maru Test and the Job Market
  18. America's Hidden 8% VAT: Sickcare
  19. The Death Spiral of Debt, Risk and Jobs
  20. Why the Job Market Will Continue Shrinking
  21. Global Reality: Surplus of Labor, Scarcity of Paid Work
  22. My Secret Writing Project
  23. Debt Serfdom in One Chart
  24. Future Economy, Future Stability, Future Careers
  25. We Are Not Powerless: Resisting Financial Feudalism
  26. Where's the Collateral?

April 2012

  1. When Data Is Spun, What Data Can We Trust?
  2. Does Believing in the "Recovery" Make It Real?
  3. The New Drug of Choice in the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury: Delusionol (tm)
  4. Peak Dow, Peak GDP and Peak Oil
  5. Peak Housing, Peak Fraud, Peak Suburbia and Peak Property Taxes
  6. What Happens When All the Money Vanishes Into Thin Air?
  7. The Future Is Unknown, But We Know the Unsustainable Will Implode
  8. The Market's Getting a Wedgie
  9. Wages and Consumption Are Both in Long-Term Downtrends
  10. Crony Capitalism and the Expansive Central State
  11. Why the Middle Class Is Doomed
  12. When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End?
  13. Overwhelmed
  14. Charting the Housing Market
  15. Is 2012 a Reprise of 2008?
  16. What If Housing Is Done for a Generation?
  17. Calling All Crash Test Dummies: Big Crash Ahead
  18. Ten Minutes After the Titanic Struck the Iceberg
  19. Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: Part 2
  20. Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change
  21. There Is No Shortcut, But All We Have Are Shortcuts

March 2012

  1. On Stress and our Fear of Change
  2. The Phony "Economic Recovery," Stress and "Losing It"
  3. Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 4: "Consumer Protection" Just Another Federal Reserve Power Grab
  4. Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 3: We had to Destroy Democracy in Order to Save It
  5. Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 2: Law-Abiding Taxpayers Are Treated as Criminals While the Real Criminals Go Free
  6. Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 1: Our One Last Chance to Preserve the Bill of Rights
  7. How Housing Affordability Can Falter Even as House Prices Decline
  8. About That $20 Trillion in Public Debt....
  9. The One Chart That Says It All
  10. The Predatory State of California, Part 2
  11. Welcome to the Predatory State of California--Even If You Don't Live There
  12. How To Cripple the Real Estate Market in Five Easy Steps
  13. In Praise of Hedging
  14. In Praise of Horrendously Costly Lessons
  15. We Have No Other Choice
  16. Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2)
  17. Four Charts of Interest on Fed-Speak Day
  18. Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 1)
  19. Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend "Job Growth Is Best Since 2006"
  20. Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Financialization Hasn't Killed the Economy
  21. Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend Student Loans Are About Education
  22. Welcome to Year Five in the Crazy House
  23. The One Chart That Shows Where AAPL and the Market Are Heading
  24. Has Housing (Finally) Become an Attractive Investment?
  25. If This Is Such a Strong Economy, Why Does This Chart Look Recessionary?
  26. If The Market Rolls Over Here....

February 2012

  1. Eye-Witness History of Occupy Wall Street Movement Now Available
  2. What's Your Favorite "On the Ground" Recession Indicator?
  3. The Perfection of Crony Capitalism: Use Regulation to Destroy Competitors
  4. This Is Small Business in America: Burdened, Crushed, Doomed
  5. What Rising Gasoline Prices Do to the Economy
  6. What's Next for Capitalism After the Current Version Implodes?
  7. When Risk Is Disconnected From Consequence, the System Itself Is at Risk
  8. What Happens When Phantom Profits Vanish?
  9. Presidents Day: Why Can't We Nominate Our Own President? We Can, We Are
  10. When Debt is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil
  11. Do We Really Know Greece's Default Will Be Orderly?
  12. The Grand Game of Perception Management
  13. The Grand Failure of the Econometric Model
  14. It's Not Just Gasoline Consumption That's Tanking, It's All Energy
  15. The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, and Cascading Default
  16. Why Is Gasoline Consumption Tanking?
  17. Self-Interest and the Pathology of Power: the Corruption of America Part 2
  18. Social Fractals and the Corruption of America
  19. Has Derivatives Deleveraging Fueled the Stock Rally?
  20. What If We're Beyond Mere Policy Tweaks?
  21. When Greece Defaults, the Credit Default Swap Dominoes Fall
  22. Counterfeit Value Derivatives: Follow the Bouncing Ball
  23. Fraudulent Debt = Counterfeit Money
  24. Our Counterfeit Economy

January 2012

  1. Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy
  2. One Dam Metaphor for the 2012 Global Financial System
  3. Has Housing Really Bottomed?
  4. What's Priced Into the Market Uptrend?
  5. Between Various Rocks and Various Hard Places
  6. The New American Divide
  7. What Have We Learned in the Past 13 Years?
  8. I Was Wrong About Everything
  9. You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Profiting from Sickcare
  10. You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: The Substitution of Debt for Productivity
  11. You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Mainstream Media
  12. You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Financial Markets
  13. A Useful Fiction: Everybody Loves a Melt-Up Stock Market
  14. Habituating to Contraction
  15. Dear U.S.A.: Your Account is Overdrawn
  16. What We Can Learn From How Doctors Choose to Die
  17. As Centralized Systems Devolve, The Solution Is Localism
  18. Why Bernanke has Failed, and Will Continue to Fail
  19. By the Pricking of Equity's Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way Comes
  20. Want to Put Iran Out of Business? Here's How
  21. President Obama, Demopublican
  22. The Ministry of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul "Unelectable"
  23. The Circling Black Swans of 2012

2011 286

December 2011

  1. MF Global: When Belief in the System Fades
  2. Are Commodities Topping Out?
  3. Will "Tax the Rich" Solve Our Deficit/Spending Crisis?
  4. Why I Am Hopeful
  5. Risk and the Government's Destruction of the Rule of Law
  6. Risk and the Indentured Servitude of Student Loans
  7. Risk is Necessary for Adaptation, Innovation and Success
  8. 2011: The Last (Debt-Consumerist) Christmas in America
  9. Three Charts That Blow the Doors Off any Hope of a 2012 Rally
  10. Super-Special Offer to Oftwominds Readers: Custom Tin Foil Hat
  11. Do We Get a Year-End Rally Or Not? Santa Dukes It Out With Mr. VIX
  12. The Truth Hurts--And Heals
  13. Housing Cannot Recover If Employment Is Trending Down
  14. If Being Totally, Disastrously Wrong Were a Virtue, Bernanke and His Fed Mates Should Be Sainted
  15. The Last Refuge of Wall Street: Marketing To Increasingly Insolvent Consumers
  16. Thank You, Readers and Contributors
  17. When Things Fall Apart: Disorientation, Desperation, Chaos
  18. Another Reason for Stocks to Tank in 2012: Jobs
  19. EU Fiscal Union = EU Debt Serfdom
  20. About Your "Guaranteed" Santa Claus Rally....
  21. It's Your Choice, Europe: Rebel Against the Banks or Accept Debt-Serfdom
  22. The Future of Work and Jobs
  23. Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness (Part 5)
  24. Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness (Part 4)

November 2011

  1. Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness (Part 3)
  2. Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness (Part 2)
  3. Unleashing the Future: Advancing Prosperity Through Debt Forgiveness (Part 1)
  4. A Glimpse Into the Future of the Stock Market and Dollar
  5. Just a Holiday Reminder: Black Friday Is Utterly Meaningless
  6. Can Chronic Ill-Health Bring Down Great Nations? Yes It Can, Yes It Will
  7. What's Lost With the Demise of the Euro? Only What Was Unsustainable
  8. Some Heretical Thoughts on the U.S. Dollar
  9. As the Debt Machine Grinds to a Halt, Job Creation Falls Off a Cliff
  10. Preserving the Status Quo with Artifice and Lies Leads to Systemic Collapse
  11. The Interests of Global Elites Are Diverging
  12. Attention Passengers on Global Equity Flight 2011: Assume Crash Positions
  13. Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Writing Off 3 Trillion Euros of Bad Debt?
  14. The World Is Drowning in Debt, and Europe Laces On Concrete Boots
  15. Euro Double-Bind: Both Paths Lead to Disintegration
  16. Veterans Day Thoughts 2011
  17. Could the Euro Trigger A 2008-Like Crash? Si, Oui, Yes.
  18. Some Things You Should Know About China
  19. Next In Line for Implosion: Pension Plans
  20. Financial Cancer: Our Financial System Is Intrinsically Fraudulent and Unstable
  21. The Collapse of Our Corrupt, Predatory, Pathological Financial System Is Necessary and Positive
  22. How Much of the Global Economy Is Useless Friction?
  23. Our Fragile "Hothouse" Economy
  24. Democracy Is Tolerated Until It Threatens Global Markets
  25. Increasing Volatility: Prelude To a Crash?

October 2011

  1. A Simple Three-Item Agenda for "Occupy Wall Street/We Are 99%"
  2. One Way to Understand the EU's Inevitable Crash Landing: the Autopilot Analogy
  3. Want a Truly Healthy Housing Market? Here Are the Five Essential Steps
  4. EU Leaders Throw Europe a Plutonium Life Preserver
  5. Obama's Re-Fi Plan: The Perfection of Debt-Serfdom
  6. Is the Market Rally "The Real Thing" or Just More Perception Management?
  7. The European Financial Crisis in One Graphic: The Dominoes of Debt
  8. Some Recent Projects
  9. The Truth Is Going Global
  10. Semi-Random Notes on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement
  11. The Origins of American Debt-Serfdom
  12. Debt-Serfdom Is Now the New American Norm
  13. Yet Another Reason Why the Euro Is Doomed
  14. Unmaking a Killing: Rooting out entitlement, parasitism, fraud, rapacious greed, and other guarantors of destruction
  15. Making a Living vs. Making a Killing: Creating a Healthy Democratic Foundation for Economies (Part 2)
  16. Making a Living vs. Making a Killing: Creating a Healthy Democratic Foundation for Economies (Part 1)
  17. The Uncredible Dog and Pony Show: Merkel and Sarkozy
  18. The U.S. Dollar: Orthodoxy and Heresy
  19. The Technical Evidence for a Bear Market Decline
  20. A Snapshot of the Stock Market in October

September 2011

  1. The Risks of Forecasting
  2. Our Many Layers of Entitlement
  3. The U.S. Dollar, Technically Speaking
  4. Bleeding the Patient, Modern Economics and the Symbolic Economy
  5. Three More Reasons the Eurozone Is Doomed
  6. The Eurozone's Three Fatal Flaws
  7. How Much of Our Economy Is Essentially Friction?
  8. The Federal Debt As Criminal Scam, The Federal Reserve As Criminal Syndicate
  9. Not Hiring: The Untold Story of Small Business in America
  10. The "Perception Management" Economy
  11. The "Perception Management" Economy
  12. Did Wages Top Out with Domestic Oil?
  13. Cheap Oil, Cheap Money, And Our Culture of Debt and Speculation
  14. In Praise of Flexibility
  15. Is U.S. Money Supply Growing Due to Euro Panic?
  16. Classic Bear Flag Is Snapping in the Breeze
  17. Why the Dollar Remains the One Essential Currency
  18. Why the U.S. Dollar "Works" and Why a Gold-Backed Currency Doesn't
  19. Currency Wars, Trade and the Consuming Crisis of Capitalism
  20. Don't Let the Dessert Cart on the Titanic Pass You By
  21. Tree Hugging and the Limits of Wall Street's Free-Market Theology
  22. Russ in Redding: The Human Face of The End of Work
  23. Endgame: When Debt is Fraud, Debt Forgiveness is the Last and Only Remedy

August 2011

  1. Marx, Labor's Dwindling Share of the Economy and the Crisis of Advanced Capitalism
  2. The Limits of Engineering
  3. Social Innovation Will be More Important Than Technological Innovation
  4. Storm Pennants Are Flying In Stocks and the Dollar
  5. And Off the Cliff We Go
  6. The Fed Cannot Stave Off the Inevitable Market Revaluation
  7. Getting 20 Million Unemployed Back to Productive Work: Here's How
  8. Change and the Process of Transformation
  9. If the Market Crashes, Who Owns Enough Stock to Even Care?
  10. About Those Permanently Rising Corporate Profits...
  11. Welcome to the Age of Instability
  12. The Junkie in the Pool and False Idols: Faith in Wall Street and The Fed Has Eroded
  13. Global Grand Policy Failure: Liquidity Traps and Financial Black Holes
  14. The Stock Market and the Dollar: There Are Only Three Possibilities
  15. Don't Bet On The Fed
  16. You Want to Create Jobs? Here's How Part II
  17. Remind Us Again Why Anyone Should Own Stocks For the Next Two Years
  18. You Want to Create Jobs? Here's How
  19. That Which Is Too Fearful To Speak: The Demise of the Consumer Economy

July 2011

  1. Random Reflections About This Blog/Site
  2. The Coming Global Instability, Part II
  3. The Coming Global Instability, Part I
  4. In the Land of Self-Interested Pygmies, No One Advocates for the Nation
  5. Complexity and Collapse
  6. The Dynamics of Doom: Why the Eurozone Fix Will Fail
  7. I Dig Dirt: The Remedy for Derealization
  8. 500 Million Debt-Serfs: The European Union Is a Neo-Feudal Kleptocracy
  9. The Federal Reserve: Our Policy Is To Steal From You
  10. Has Housing Bottomed? Here's How to Tell
  11. You Want to Fix the U.S. Economy? Here's a Start
  12. Four Charts: Shanghai, S&P 500, U.S. Dollar and the Dow
  13. The Critical Difference Between the Top 1% and the Top .1%: Capital Gains
  14. Made in U.S.A.: Wealth Inequality
  15. The 40-Year Cycle of Cultural Change
  16. Poverty in America, Part I
  17. Here's Why Small Business Isn't Hiring, Part II
  18. Here's Why Small Business Isn't Hiring, and Won't be Hiring
  19. The Sharpest Rally Since 1644
  20. The Shape of Things To Come
  21. The Great Reset
  22. The Promises That Cannot Be Kept
  23. Now Playing: Cognitive Dissonance and Wishful Thinking
  24. July 4, 2011: The Cycle of Dependency and the Atrophy of Self-Reliance
  25. The Three Ds: Delegitimization, Definancialization, Deglobalization

June 2011

  1. How Much Would It Cost To Buy Congress Back From Special Interests?
  2. The U.S. Is a Kleptocracy, Too
  3. Greece Is a Kleptocracy
  4. What If the Consensus Is Wrong?
  5. We’re Dropping the Ball on Renewable Energy (guest post)
  6. Inevitable Catastrophe: The Fruits of Moral Hazard on a Global Scale
  7. Why the Eurozone and the Euro Are Both Doomed
  8. "Growing Your Way Out of Debt" Is a Fantasy
  9. The Death of Demand: The Post-Consumer Debt Economy
  10. The Only Way Forward Is to Accept Reality: Default Is Not the End of the World
  11. Is 2011 the Present Era's 1979?
  12. Corporate America Really Really Cares About Its Employees (Really)
  13. The Turning Point
  14. Why The Wheels Are Falling Off China's Boom
  15. Mr. Bernanke's Manipulation Nation
  16. Our Participation Fuels Financial Tyranny
  17. The Necessity of Resisting Financial Tyranny
  18. The Bankruptcy of Corporate America
  19. A Classic Technical Signal: China Breaks Down
  20. An Open-Source Web-Enabled Revolution in Education
  21. The "End of Work" and the Coming Revolution in Education
  22. Productive Vs. Unproductive: Manufacturing Vs. Financialization
  23. Political Myopia and America’s Manufacturing Decline (Guest Essay)
  24. Taking Away the Punchbowl
  25. Can We Please Stop Pretending the GDP Is "Growing"?
  26. Greece, Please Do The Right Thing: Default Now

May 2011

  1. The News Cycle: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
  2. Just Following Orders
  3. Things Are Spinning Out of Control
  4. The 'Baseball' Economy: The Fed Strikes Out
  5. If You Want Solutions, First Pin Down Where the Money Is Going
  6. Don't Despair, It's The New Normal, Part II
  7. Priced in Gold, Is Housing a Buy?
  8. Models of Community: Alternatives to Corporate America
  9. Models of Community: Shared Beliefs, Shared Goals
  10. The Domination of Government and the Decline of Self-Reliance and Community
  11. Our Peculiar State of Suspended Animation
  12. Capital Accumulation and Opting Out of the Consumerist Machine
  13. Housing Losses Are a Financial Disaster
  14. The Fatal Timidity of the Corporate Media
  15. Capital Exploits Labor: the U.S.-China Trade and Beyond
  16. $6.5 Trillion Lost, One House at a Time
  17. Those Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy They First Make Fed Governors
  18. Two Charts: Stocks and Commodities
  19. Memo to Bernanke: It's Called Blowback, Baby
  20. What The Empire Creates, It Can Also Destroy
  21. Failure: Don't Despair, It's The New Normal
  22. May Day 1971 and 2011
  23. When Does "Managed Perception" Become Reality?

April 2011

  1. Peak Oil and Soil
  2. Do These Charts Look Like "Recovery"?
  3. Bernanke's Press Conference, August 1, 2012
  4. The Housing Bubble Broke the Middle Class
  5. Gold As a Hedge: A Back-of-the-Envelope Calculation
  6. Anatomy of a Crisis: 2011
  7. The Crash Course: The Book
  8. Your Pick, Ben, But One Goes Off the Cliff
  9. Our "Let's Pretend" Economy
  10. The Fundamental Injustice That Is Poisoning the Nation
  11. What's Hated Most May Be a Contrarian Buy (U.S. Dollar)
  12. Fed Aims at Mortgage Fraud, Shoots Housing Market in the Gut
  13. Chart of the Week: China's Growth
  14. Here's the Setup for the Con of the Decade
  15. What Are the Alternatives to $100K in Student Debt?
  16. Crude Currents: Oil Is In Play
  17. Students: You Are Exploited Debt-Serfs
  18. The Fed's Most Dangerous Game: Checkmate
  19. If Volume Is the Weapon of the Bull, Then....
  20. The Devolution of the Consumer Economy, Part II: Rising Costs, Declining Wages
  21. Extreme Leverage, Extreme Instability, Extreme Risk
  22. The Devolution of the Consumer Economy
  23. Obama Will Lose in 2012
  24. The Grand Failure of Conventional Economics
  25. Chart of the Week: Stocks Are Overvalued
  26. Gadhafi Seeks Seat on the Federal Reserve

March 2011

  1. You Want Real Change? Recycle 300 Congresspeople Every Two Years
  2. Could Declining House Values Spark the Next Taxpayer Rebellion?
  3. Beware Of Extrapolating Trends
  4. Why The European Union Is Doomed
  5. What If "What Everyone Knows To Be True" Is Wrong?
  6. A Contrarian Take on the Dollar's Demise
  7. Phase Shift: The Next Leg Down in House Prices
  8. I've Got a Funny Feeling About the Stock Market
  9. Is the Recovery "Self-Sustaining"? Here's a Test
  10. Sickcare Will Bankrupt the Nation--And Soon
  11. Long-Term Investing Perspective: Five Charts
  12. Volatility and the "Permanent Bull Market"
  13. Anatomy of a Trade
  14. Perspectives on Japan and the Global Economy
  15. Sorry, Fed and People's Bank of China: You Can't Have It Both Ways
  16. Does Anyone Seriously Believe the Global Recovery Is Still Intact?
  17. Thoughts on Japan
  18. When Things Fall Apart
  19. Fed Goldilocks Ignites Firestorm, Three Bears Now Homeless
  20. What Public Employee Leaders Could Be Saying (But Aren't)
  21. The Paradoxes at the Heart of the "Conservative" Project
  22. The Paradoxes at the Heart of the "Progressive" Project
  23. The Great Stagnation, and Innovation as Savior
  24. How to Buy Complicity: A Rising Stock Market Bails Out Everyone
  25. You Want Small Business to Start Hiring? Here's What To Do
  26. Snatching Tiger Cubs and Cherished Delusions
  27. The Counterfeit Economy

February 2011

  1. Public Pension and Healthcare Costs and Financial Common Sense
  2. Chart of the Week: Dow-Gold Ratio
  3. Oil: We Need It, they Got It
  4. Egypt, Libya et al.: Demographics, the Oil Curse and Post-Colonial Karma
  5. Wait for the Retrace?
  6. How I Friended a Dead Guy and Became a Social Media Zombie
  7. Social Media Week: 800 Million Channels of Me
  8. Leviathan and Meme Theory (guest essay)
  9. Beyond the False Dawn: Global Crisis 2020-2022
  10. Complexity: Bureaucratic (Death Spiral) and Self-Organizing (Sustainable)
  11. You Want Inflation? Here's How To Get It
  12. A 5-Year Scenario: 2011-2016
  13. Dislocations Ahead: The Ratchet Effect, Stick-Slip and QE3
  14. Orwell and "Quantitative Easing:" The First Step to Solving a Problem is Stating it Correctly
  15. How Confident Are You in a Hyperinflationary Future?
  16. Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham, Phase II
  17. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Jobs (in the U.S.)
  18. Why Small Business Isn't Hiring and Won't Be Hiring
  19. The U.S. Economy Is About to Grow Explosively, Or Whatever
  20. Chart Week: Entitlements and the Federal Deficit
  21. Chart Week: Pareto Distribution and Wealth Inequality
  22. Chart Week: The Resilience/Vulnerability of the Status Quo
  23. Chart Week: Paradox of Plenty
  24. Chart Week: Renewable Energy, Oil and the Mideast

January 2011

  1. The Big Squeeze, Part 3: The Quiet Rebellion: Civil Disobedience, Local Markets, and Debt Erasure
  2. The Big Squeeze, Part 2: Abused Fundamentals and Fake Markets: How They Play Out
  3. The Big Squeeze: Predicting the Effects of Savings Extortion and Abuse of the Middle Class
  4. Staying Fit (at almost any) Age
  5. The Kubler-Ross Model: Denial, Acceptance and Renewal in America
  6. Conserving Doomed Systems (or, why we're staying on the Titanic)
  7. Ook and Mook Invent Money, Wealth and Taoism
  8. China's Runaway Chariot
  9. As Public Policy Fixes Are Impossible, Focus on Individual Solutions
  10. How To Fix Social Security: A 4-Point Plan That Faces the Brutal Realities
  11. To Fix Social Security, First Ask Why It Is Deep in the Red
  12. The Fraud at the Heart of Social Security
  13. The Bicycle Is a Mighty Machine (and Metaphor)
  14. The Fed, Housing and Stocks: The Chimera of Middle Class Assets
  15. Market Dislocation: Dow 11,908?
  16. Could the U.S. Dollar Rise 50%?
  17. The Mechanics of Hyperinflation: Bankers vs. Politicos
  18. Bernanke, Goldilocks and The Red Queen
  19. U.S.O.F.C.: If the Fraud Stops, the Financial System Collapses
  20. No Wonder We're Failing: Our Power Elites' Sole Expertise Is Being Privileged
  21. Why the World Is Financially Doomed in Four Charts
  22. Situational Awareness and Shared Awareness
  23. Healthcare: A Large-Scale Solution
  24. Themes for 2011

2010 301

December 2010

  1. My Predictions for 2011
  2. If We Close Our Eyes, The Monster Will Go Away
  3. Japan's Perpetual Motion Debt Machine
  4. One Investment Strategy for Q1 2011: Cash, Baby, All the Way
  5. America's Job-Creation Machinery Is Hollowed Out
  6. A World Without Money (A Sunday School Lesson)
  7. The Last Christmas in America
  8. House Values Fall 30%, But Property Taxes Keep Rising
  9. One Scenario for Early 2011: Reality Intrudes
  10. America's Childlike Desire to Avoid Making Trade-Offs
  11. Thank You, Readers and Contributors
  12. The Devil's Christmas Letter
  13. December Issue of Foreclosure Crisis Monthly
  14. The (Relatively) Good News About Natural Gas
  15. WikiLeaks: The Banality of Evil and Imperial Over-Reach
  16. Santa Delivers Rally--and Sloppy-Drunk Complacency
  17. White House, Republicans Offer Bloggers $100K Each in Compromise Deal
  18. Readers' Computer Security Tips
  19. Contest for Specially Signed Copy of The Witch of Hebron
  20. Productivity, Baumol's Disease and the Cliff Just Ahead
  21. "Straight Talk" Interview on ChrisMartenson.com (Part 2)
  22. My "Straight Talk" Interview on ChrisMartenson.com
  23. Our 10 Favorite Kitchen Tools
  24. How To Avoid Getting Hijacked (Your Computer, That Is)
  25. The Lifecycle of Bureaucracy
  26. Inflation Is Rampant in Tuition, Healthcare and Property Taxes

November 2010

  1. Dow Jones Industrials 9,240, Here We Come
  2. Ireland, Please Do the World a Favor and Default
  3. Four Insights on Resilience
  4. My Thanksgiving: Five Things I Am Thankful For
  5. The Federal Reserve's VISA Card Statement
  6. Please, Santa, Let This Be the Last Christmas in America (that's supposed to "save" the U.S. economy)
  7. The Key to Understanding "Recession" and "Recovery": The Wealth Pyramid
  8. End Game: Why the Status Quo Is Unsustainable
  9. America Is Just Going Through the Motions
  10. The Federal Reserve and the Pathology of Power
  11. Wall Street's "Recovery" Leaves Main Street Mugged in the Gutter
  12. Commercial Real Estate (CRE): The Slow-Mo Cliff-Dive Gathers Speed
  13. The Status Quo's Fundamental Paradigms Are Broken
  14. In Honor of Windows 7
  15. Fraud and Complicity Are Now the Lifeblood of the Status Quo (Banality of Financial Evil, Part 2)
  16. Why America Is Slouching Toward Third World Status
  17. Fed's QE2 Misadventure Costs U.S. Households $4.6 trillion
  18. The Banality of (Financial) Evil
  19. Dependency, The Fed and the Market
  20. Stocks Have Collapsed in 2010--When Priced in Wheat
  21. Foreclosure Monthly, November 2010
  22. Post-Election Postmortem: What's Different?
  23. PPT Wraps Up Pre-Election Rally: Now What?
  24. Asset Inflation/Deflation: The Fed's QE2 vs. $15 Trillion in Losses
  25. Are the Fed's Honchos Simpletons, Or Are They Just Taking Orders?

October 2010

  1. Look Out Below Part 2
  2. Concentrated Wealth and the Purchase of Political Power: Democracy's Death Spiral
  3. The Stealth Coup D'Etat: U.S.A. 2008-2010
  4. Introducing Foreclosure Crisis Weekly
  5. Trade of the Decade, Part 2
  6. Trade of the Decade: The Power Elite's Grand Strategy
  7. U.S. Financial Markets: The Well Has Been Poisoned (Anger of the Honest Part II)
  8. China's Dollar-Commodity Vise
  9. Hyperinflation Is a Political Process
  10. The Stock Market's Long Decline Has Begun
  11. The Great Game: Geopolitics and Oil
  12. The Loss of Trust and the Great Unraveling To Come
  13. The Normalization of Sociopathology in America
  14. The Rot Within: Our Culture of Financial Fraud and the Anger of the Honest
  15. The Coming Collapse of the Real Estate Market
  16. Runaway Feedback Loops, Wealth Concentration and Gaming-The-System
  17. Imagining A Middle Class Does Not Create One
  18. Bernanke's QE2 Heading for the Shoals
  19. On Despair, Vulnerability and Wisdom
  20. Look Out Below (I've got a bad feeling about this)
  21. Want a Manufacturing Renaissance? Here's How
  22. The Recipe for Collapse
  23. Trade and "Trade War" with China: Who Benefits?
  24. Understanding the "Trade War" with China
  25. Solutions Part Six: Political Enlightenment
  26. Solutions Part Five: Low-Cost Lifestyle and Hybrid Work

September 2010

  1. Solutions Part Four: Self-Reliance
  2. Solutions Part Three: When Rationing Works
  3. Solutions Part Two: The State, Dependency, Addiction and Reciprocity
  4. Solutions Part One: Informal Enterprise
  5. Home Schooling in New Zealand (guest essay)
  6. Housing Prediction: Bottom in 2014, Then a Decade of Stagnation
  7. Perverse Incentives and Unintended Consequences
  8. The Politics of Resentment
  9. Is Paying 10 Million People Not to Work Really a Good Idea?
  10. Entitlements, Taxes, Inequality and Three-Way Class Warfare
  11. What I Did on My Vacation (and other news)
  12. Does Healthcare Reform Address Rising Inequality?
  13. Why China's Housing Bubble Is Unsustainable
  14. What "The 25 Most Expensive Homes" Reveal About the U.S. Economy
  15. The Myth of "Decoupling" and the Chinese Consumer
  16. The Invisible Hand, The Bastille and the Overthrow of the Ruling Elite
  17. The High Cost of Citizen Badwill
  18. The Limits of Conventional Politics
  19. Falling Imports to U.S. Spell Slow Growth for Mercantilist Exporters
  20. The Overlapping Crises of Neoliberal Global Capitalism
  21. Understanding China's Challenges
  22. The Perils of Prediction
  23. China's "Nuclear Financial Option" Downgraded to "Financial Firecracker"
  24. The Peculiar Dynamic of Boomers' Non-Retirement

August 2010

  1. The Bullish and Bearish Cases for Stocks
  2. What If We Ditched Quantitative Easing and Just Printed (and Distributed) Cash?
  3. Notes from the Proprietor
  4. Did The Roman Empire Have Corporations?
  5. Shock Troops of Corporate Empire: Hip-Hop, Fast-Food and Social Media
  6. Colonizing the Plantation of the Mind
  7. Wal-Mart and the Plantation Economy
  8. The Ratchet Effect: Fiefdom Bloat and Resistance to Declining Incomes
  9. Why Is Income Disparity Widening?
  10. Why Nothing Changes
  11. Nothing Has Changed
  12. Two Americas: The Gap Between the Top 5% and the Bottom 95% Widens
  13. The Great Disconnect (The Bullish Case for Stocks Part 2)
  14. A Note on Sentiment (The Bullish Case for Stocks Part 1)
  15. True Confessions (on Liberty and the Republic) (guest essay)
  16. Large-Scale Solutions: Protecting the Commons, Individual Choices
  17. Plunge Protection Team, Your Red Phone Is Ringing
  18. The "Big Fixes": High-Tech R&D and Behavioral Changes
  19. Big Fixes, Small-Scale Fixes and Being Pragmatic about Technology
  20. The Non-Financial Cost of Stagnation: "Social Recession" and Japan's "Lost Generations"
  21. How Frugal Are You?
  22. Credit Is Financial Crack Cocaine
  23. Bailout of Housing = Bailout of Banks
  24. Seven Headwinds for the U.S. Economy
  25. Why Japan Is Doomed (and the U.S. and E.U., too): Demographics, Low Savings, Ballooning Debt
  26. Disconnect Between the Real Economy and Stocks May Widen

July 2010

  1. What You Need to Know About Present and Future Value (FV)
  2. Gardening Break, "What the Heck" Kindle Book Sale
  3. The Next Golden Age, Part II
  4. The Next Golden Age, Part I
  5. Natural Selection, Finance and Extinction
  6. Things Fall Apart: But Not Just Yet
  7. Four Factors Affecting Millennials (and the rest of us)
  8. No Wonder Home Sales Are Plummeting: Look Who Was Buying
  9. Facebook Is a Utility Which Can't Charge Its Users
  10. "National Security:" A Global Police State-Within-a-State
  11. Action List for the Newly Unemployed
  12. Will the Stock Market Crash Before the Mid-Term Elections?
  13. Some Thoughts on Fear, Empire and "New" Pragmatism
  14. Oversupply of Old Failed Ideas, Undersupply of New Pragmatic Ideas
  15. Housing Basics: Massive Supply, Faltering Demand
  16. China's Real Estate: Black-Hole Capital Trap
  17. Bond Yields, Inflation, Risk and You
  18. Why (Hyper) Inflation Is Not In the Cards
  19. Suburbs: the Dispersal Defense Against Nuclear Attack
  20. The Con of the Decade Part II
  21. The Con of the Decade Part I
  22. Is Now a Good Time to Buy a House?
  23. Oil Head-Fake Update: Why Alt Energy Will Never "Pencil Out"
  24. Does the Internet Enable Direct Democracy?
  25. 4th of July Signed Book Offer
  26. Innovation, Risk and the Forest Fire Analogy
  27. China's Headwinds

June 2010

  1. Innovation: Financial, Technical and Institutional
  2. Believing Six Impossible Things (about trade, deficits and currencies) Before Breakfast
  3. Once More Up, Then the Big Down
  4. Sleep, Dreaming, and National Suicide (guest essay)
  5. Fragility, Complexity and Innovation
  6. Cities Slap Fees on Everything: Flailing Desperation and Financial Hara-Kiri
  7. An Open Letter to the Millennials: Where Are You?
  8. Has "Financial Innovation" Capitalism Run its Course?
  9. The Limits of Doom-and-Gloom
  10. When The Market Has Cancer (guest essay)
  11. Questioning "Progress"
  12. The Future of Cities
  13. What We Know (and Don't Want to Know) About Housing
  14. What We Don't Know and Don't Want to Know
  15. Japan and the U.S.: Ad Hoc War, Ad Hoc "Recovery"
  16. My Meeting with Other Econobloggers
  17. Questioning "Progress" and the Poverty of our Imagination
  18. What Is Our Weakest Link?
  19. Trickster Gold
  20. Why Private Employment Is In Structural Decline
  21. Deepwater Horizon and Global Financial Meltdown: Each Mirrors The Other
  22. What Is Good Medicine? (why US healthcare is doomed)
  23. What You Can Do in Anticipation of Peak Oil
  24. Effort Shock, Future Shock and the Promise of Transformation
  25. So What's the Point?

May 2010

  1. Memorial Day Book List
  2. 1950s London: Human-Powered Pushcarts
  3. The Problem with "Tax The Rich": It Won't Work
  4. The Root of the Housing Bubble Remains Unchanged
  5. Stocks Due for a Bounce, But Long Term....
  6. Going Long, Going Deep, Going Broke: ZIRP and the Imploding Speculative Economy
  7. How the Fed Pushed the Nation's Pension Plans--and Local Government--into Insolvency
  8. "Two Scoop Special": Double-Dip Recession Guaranteed
  9. How Would You Spend Your Daily 100 watts?
  10. Suppressing the Cognitive Dissonance of a Bogus Recovery
  11. If China Stocks Lead U.S. Market, Look Out Below
  12. Demographics and the End of the Savior State
  13. Unhinged: When Concrete Reality No Longer Matters to the Market (and What to Do About It)
  14. Could the Stock Market Crash in 2010?
  15. Updating the Oil "Head-Fake" Scenario
  16. Everywhere I Look, I See Cheap Oil
  17. Scrape Away the Noise and Hype, and What Remains?
  18. Why the Eurozone Is Doomed
  19. Book Recommendations from Readers
  20. The Generation Gap and "Old" Austin, Texas
  21. The Happiness-Wealth Correlation
  22. Taking Down the "Too Big To Fail" Banks Ourselves
  23. $8 per Gallon Gasoline Is Already Here (for some of us)
  24. Exponential Growth and Depletion: Chart of the Century?
  25. The Burden of Knowing

April 2010

  1. Two Charts: the Dow and Dow/Oil
  2. Debt, Democracy, Autonomy and Revolution: Understanding 2010-2021
  3. A Meditation on the Tea Party Movement
  4. Why the "Nascent Recovery" Won't Last
  5. Adaptation, Habituation, Consumption and $9/Gallon Gasoline
  6. 1905 San Francisco: Great City, Low Energy Consumption
  7. The Vampire Squid Partnership: the State and Wall Street
  8. My Country Went to Iraq and All I Got Was This Global Empire
  9. Is It Time to Go to Cash?
  10. How We Get Ahead Now: Gaming the System
  11. Vampire Squid, Meet Ravenous Piranhas
  12. Foreclosure Pipeline Is Full to Bursting
  13. Housing and the Collapse of Upward Mobility
  14. Wall Street Is Now America
  15. China's Towers and U.S. McMansions: When Things Fall Apart (Literally)
  16. Housing Headwinds and Baby Boom Demographics
  17. Best Trade of the Next Five Years: Short-Term Treasuries
  18. The Politically Inconvenient Medical Realities of Opting Out
  19. Tyranny of the Majority, Corporate Welfare and Complicity
  20. 1969 and 2010: Higher Taxes, Higher Costs and Structural Monopolies
  21. Are We Heading for a Decade of 1970s-Style Stagflation?
  22. Incomes Decline, Debt Increases: Why the Credit Bubble Cannot Be Reflated
  23. The U.S. Status Quo: Unsustainable, Doomed and Danced Out
  24. Deleveraging and the Futility of "Printing Money"
  25. Debt Jubilee: $38 Trillion in Private U.S. Debt Is Wiped Clean

March 2010

  1. Yin-Yang Unity: Asset Deflation and Price Increases
  2. Opting Out and the Culture of Entitlement
  3. Housing and the Paradox of Credit Bubbles, Equity and Demand
  4. Healthcare and the Loss of Personal Autonomy and Responsibility
  5. When Belief in the System Fades, Stock Market Version
  6. Updating the Stock market's Forgotten Indicators
  7. U.S. Decline: We have Met the Enemy, and It Isn't China
  8. More on the U.S. Dollar, Deleveraging and Purchasing Power
  9. The Contrarian Trade of the Decade: the U.S. Dollar
  10. The High Water Mark of a Broken System: U.S. "Healthcare"
  11. The Wisdom of Crowds: Americans Refusing To Buy Into the Rally
  12. The Trouble With Bonds
  13. Comparing Household Net Worth to Total Credit: U.S. Is Insolvent
  14. Google to China: Take This Dictatorship and Shove It
  15. The Unique Benefits of When Things Fall Apart
  16. Could Urban Gardens Supply 1/3 of a City's Food? Yes.
  17. Could Urban Gardens Supply 1/3 of a City's Food? Yes.
  18. Bells Will Ring At The Bottom in Stocks and Housing
  19. What If (Almost) All Assets Fall Together?
  20. The Stock Market As Propaganda
  21. Why California Is Doomed
  22. Dissonance Overload, Needs and "Innovation"
  23. Weekend Reading: New Poems, Essays and Recipes
  24. Simulacrum Reforms Won't Fix Anything
  25. The Stock Market's Textbook Change of Trend
  26. The Keynesian Project Is Psychotic
  27. Why the Euro Might Devolve into Euro1 and Euro2
  28. When Debt-Junkies Go Broke, So Do Mercantilist Pushers

February 2010

  1. Weekend Poetry and Reading
  2. Phase Shifts, Stick/Slip and the Demise of Our "Socialist" Housing Policy
  3. It's Time to End the Student Loan Rip-Off
  4. "Shovel-Ready" = "Marginal Returns"
  5. Some Big Wild Guesses About the Future
  6. If This Site Offends Your Sense of Ideological Purity, Please Stop Reading It
  7. The Wider Context for Twenty-Somethings (Gen Y) in America
  8. Institutional Darwinism: Adapt or Perish
  9. Losing the Red Queen's Race
  10. Why I am Optimistic
  11. Seven New Readers Journal Essays
  12. 1968 and 1980: Republicans, Democrats and Debt
  13. Digital Gratitude, Digital Distraction
  14. Risk, Feedback and the Market's Next Move
  15. The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S.
  16. Why We Keep Getting Poorer: High-Cost Housing
  17. Housing Speculation, Mobility, Marketing and Convenience
  18. Serial Addictions, Serial Speculative Bubbles: a Sickness Unto Death
  19. Welfare Nation: Addiction, Denial and Magical Thinking

January 2010

  1. Introducing Survival+ The Primer
  2. Sugar: the Bitter Truth
  3. Peak Oil, Propaganda and the Coming Head-Fake
  4. Demographics and the End of Cheap Oil, Jobs and The Savior State
  5. The Wal-Mart Model of Self-Destruction: Lowest Prices, Always
  6. Is Buying a House in 2010 a Good Idea?
  7. Predictions, Hazardous and Profitable
  8. Low Interest Rates and Easy Credit Are Catastrophes for Any Economy
  9. China and the U.S.: Dysfunctional Real Estate Bubble Twins
  10. The Simulacra of Change, the Propaganda of Hope
  11. Aggregating Intelligence (DailyJava Forum), and The Demise of Sickcare
  12. Is The Stock Market Top In?
  13. Stripmining the Citizenry, and the Future of Work
  14. "Improving Public Safety" and Theft By Other Means
  15. Perverse Incentives and a Government Doomed to Collapse
  16. Blood Sugar, Insulin and the "Keynesian Disease"
  17. The Inherent Problem with Offering Specific Advice
  18. Wall Street and Governments Love Carbon Credits--Don't You?
  19. We (You and I) Are Pioneers of New Media
  20. 2nd Edition of Survival+, Free eBooks
  21. I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
  22. As the Status Quo Implodes: What's the Point of Education?
  23. The Irrationality of Public Teachers' Pay Scales
  24. This Nation's Devolution from Quality to Convenience
  25. Contrary Signals Clear Way for Crash

2009 276

December 2009

  1. The Transition to Risk
  2. Will China's Real Estate Bubble Pop the Global "Recovery"?
  3. Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform, Part II
  4. Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform, Part I
  5. Why Interest Rates Will Rise in 2010
  6. "Monetary Policy" Transfers Your Children's Future Earnings to the Financial Elite
  7. Symbolic Economies: U.S. and China
  8. Purchasing Power: The Only True Measure of Earnings And Wealth
  9. Gift Ideas: Books for 2010 and Beyond
  10. A Must-See Film and Must-Read Book
  11. Survival+ Trends for 2010
  12. Overcoming Depression in a Depression
  13. Why a 35% Decline in Housing Values Would Be Good for the Nation
  14. Speculative Demand and Hoarding Drive Real Prices Higher
  15. The Work of Orestes A. Brownson (1893)
  16. Federal "Stimulus" = Heroin
  17. The World Is Too Complex (Guest essay by Subuddh Parekh)
  18. Fragility and Resilience
  19. What Must Be Addressed: Rising Abject Poverty
  20. Absolutely Nothing Has Been Fixed
  21. The One Report on ClimateGate You Should Read
  22. Bearish Cross in NYSE Volume Suggests Rally Will Crumble
  23. A Megaphone Announcing Extremes of Sentiment and Indecision
  24. The Present Cannot Be Understood in the Present

November 2009

  1. The Grand Failure of Government to Limit Concentration of Power
  2. Thanksgiving
  3. Will Commercial Real Estate Trigger a Double-Dip Recession?
  4. The Fantasy of an Export-Led Recovery
  5. The Next 7 Millions Jobs That Will Be Lost
  6. Stating the Obvious: Why the Stock Market Should Crash
  7. Guest Essay: Iron Sharpens Iron
  8. State Over-Reach: Stripmining the Citizenry for Fun and Profit
  9. The Inevitable Collapse of the "Healthcare"/Sickcare System
  10. Bubbles, Inflation and Overcapacity
  11. Theft By Other Means II: When the State Steals Property, Is It Not Theft
  12. Healthcare "Reform": the State and Plutocracy Stripmine the Middle Class (Again)
  13. When Things Fall Apart
  14. We Are What We Do Every Day
  15. Is Oil "Cheap" When Priced in Euros or Gold?
  16. Oil to $20/barrel or $200/barrel?
  17. Oil to $20/barrel or $200/barrel?
  18. The Complete Survival+ is Now Available
  19. The Empire Strikes Back

October 2009

  1. When the Savior State Becomes the Enemy of the People
  2. Crazymaker: Journal of American Media and Lifestyle
  3. "Upholding the Law" or Simply Theft by Other Means?
  4. Housing: Round Trip to Pre-Bubble Prices Underway
  5. A Trader's Intuition (with Charts)
  6. Simplified Investing (guest essay)
  7. Readers Comment on "Driving While Poor"
  8. Stocks, Inflation, Speculation, Desperation
  9. The Gathering Storm in Commercial Real Estate (CRE)
  10. Criminalizing Poverty For Profit: Local Government's New Debtors Prisons
  11. When Giants Fall: the Erosion of U.S. Wealth and Influence
  12. Why We'll See Stimulus 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 (and so on, until The Great Implosion)
  13. Three Models of Future Stock Market Moves
  14. The Pension Fund Managers Impossible Task
  15. The Peace Prize in a Time of War: 10 Questions
  16. The Forgotten Peg: Chinese Yuan and U.S. Dollar
  17. Deflation or Inflation: Who Cares?
  18. The U.S. Dollar: Chart Points to Reversal/Major Rally
  19. The Vampire Squids Leeching Small Business
  20. The Rush for Money from Somewhere Other Than Work
  21. Inalienable Rights and the Constitution (guest essay)
  22. Rights, Lies and Losing Legitimacy
  23. Pain, Addiction, Anxiety, Flu, Malpractice, Meds and More

September 2009

  1. When Honesty Becomes "Threatening"
  2. Inflation, Commodity Prices and the Dollar
  3. The Politics of Inflation: Theft by Other Means
  4. Unemployment: The Gathering Storm
  5. Housing, Leverage, the Dollar and Purchasing Power
  6. Why The Dollar May Not Be Doomed
  7. When Housing Is Priced in Gold
  8. "Peak Food": Agriculture Cartels, Oil, and Seed Patents
  9. "Safe" Investments Can Still Lose Purchasing Power
  10. Opting Out of Cartels
  11. Welcome to America's "Lost Decade(s)"
  12. Propaganda, Magical Thinking and Failed Offensives
  13. The Final Demise of A Speculative Housing Bubble
  14. Every Day Is Christmas in America (as long as you have credit)
  15. How Much of Your Money Goes to Monopolies and Cartels?
  16. Readers' Potpourri
  17. Central Banks and Competitive Currency
  18. Has Central Bank Management of the Economy Failed?
  19. Setting Up the Next Leg Down in Housing
  20. Experiential Capital and The Will to Work
  21. Why We Should All Grow Some of Our Own Food
  22. University Degrees, Social Capital and Debt
  23. How Low Can We Go?
  24. Could a Viable Third Party Emerge in the U.S.?

August 2009

  1. Japan's Bloodless Coup: Devolution of the Export/Central Planning Model
  2. Readers Respond on Higher (Cost) Education
  3. "Business as Usual": Legitimizing the Illegitimate
  4. Denial and Risk
  5. Is Higher Education Worth a Lifetime of Debt?
  6. Television, Symbolic Capital and Empire
  7. The Pareto Principle and the Next Wave Down in Real Estate
  8. Are Empire and Democracy Compatible?
  9. The Immense Suffering Caused by Financial Devolution
  10. Mobilizing a City to Store Rainwater
  11. Rant or Revelation: My Money's on Revelation
  12. The Travails of Small Business Doom the U.S. Economy
  13. Emergency Water and Waste Disposal
  14. Bees, Flowers and Water
  15. Grain, Drought and Systemic Risk
  16. The Dollar and Gold: A Contrarian Take
  17. So Long, California
  18. 10 Pins for the Stock Market Bubble
  19. Rainwater Catchment
  20. The Top Is In: Kroika Cookie Company Expands into U.S. Banking
  21. The 800-Pound Gorilla Crushing "Healthcare": Malpractice
  22. Healthcare "Reform": Cui Bono--To Whose Benefit?
  23. Insurmountable Barriers to Structural Reform
  24. The Royal Scam (guest essay)
  25. The American Way of Life (and Death)

July 2009

  1. More on the "Impossible" Healthcare Solution
  2. More on Capital Traps, Buying, Holding and Selling Housing
  3. The "Impossible" Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash
  4. "Recession's Over, Recovery Underway": What's Missing in Action
  5. Housing Recovery: Sell Now Or Your Capital Will Be Trapped
  6. A Wild Speculation: the Stock Market and the Economy
  7. Oil for Food, Food for Oil
  8. What's Up with the Stock Market?
  9. IPO Offer from Goldman Sachs: the U.S. Governmen
  10. Denial, Fear, Anger: The Real Depression Part II
  11. Denial, Fear, Anger: The Real Depression Part I
  12. Dumpster Diving and Freedom
  13. Dumpster Diving and Empire
  14. The Next Superpower/Empire
  15. Antiques Roadshow, 2014
  16. The Fluttering Pulse of Entitlement Nation
  17. An Asymmetric Stake in the Game
  18. Exiting the U.S.A.
  19. Washing Machines, Free and New
  20. After the Fall: Agenda Points for Renewing America
  21. Frugality, "New" and Traditional
  22. Junk Fee Revolution: Government Is an Enterprise, Too
  23. Patents, Complexity, Marginal Returns: Hello, Devolution
  24. Liberty and Liberation: Independence Day and Survival+
  25. Rumblings and Tremors: Falling Incomes and Housing Price
  26. What If The (Debt-Based) Economy Never Comes Back?
  27. Interlocking Traps

June 2009

  1. De Facto Socialism, 20 Million Vacant Houses and Squattertown, USA
  2. Globalization and China: Neoliberal Capitalism's Last "Fix"
  3. Saturday Quiz: Why Is the Headline Unemployment Rate Bogus?
  4. Domino Devolutions: Credit, Assets, Spending, Taxes, Jobs
  5. More on Devolution
  6. Good Cop, Bad Cop: Obama, Bush and Iraq
  7. Devolution: 20 Predictions
  8. The New U.S. Bill of Rights and Two Charts
  9. Saturday Haiku and More on Spoiled Brat Syndrome
  10. California's Crisis Will Crush Green Shoots Rally
  11. Pavlov's Dog and Jim Cramer's Call of the Bottom in Housing
  12. Incentives, Disincentives and Spoiled Brat Syndrome
  13. A Skeptical Look at High Inflation
  14. 8800/950 or Bust; The Dollar Set To Rise
  15. Anatomy of a Quadrillion Dollar Scam: Assessing the Damage and Making Our Way in a Post-Gluttony Era
  16. Food and Energy Are Still Too Cheap
  17. The Dollar Conundrum: Poison or Cure?
  18. A Top-Level Economy Based On Credit/Consumption
  19. Eating the Seed Corn
  20. Three Perverse Incentives That Sank the U.S. Economy
  21. Carrying Capacity, Demographics and Easter Island's Die-Off
  22. Booms, Manias, Windfalls and Die-Offs
  23. Why the Present Depression Will Be Deeper than the Great Crash of 1929
  24. Learning from the Great Crash of 1929
  25. What's Wrong with California
  26. On Preparing for a Reasonably Easy Passing

May 2009

  1. Memorial Day: A Passing in the Family
  2. Whither Goes the American Rebel
  3. American Healthcare: Follow the Money
  4. When Belief in the System Fades (California Tax Rebellion)
  5. Is Buying a House Catching a Falling Knife or a Practically Foolproof Inflation Hedge?
  6. Social Welfare, Socialism and Healthcare
  7. The Yellowstone Analogy and The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
  8. Why We Are the Way We Are
  9. Unknown Consequences and Unspoken Consequences
  10. One Last Serving of Food for Thought
  11. More Food for Thought: What's Behind the Obesity Epidemic?
  12. The Big Con
  13. Vietnam and Now: Lying and Deception "For the Good of the Country"
  14. Food For Thought
  15. "My Stuff," Inflation and Depression: When Consumerist Gods Fail
  16. Inflation, Bonds and "Theft By Other Means"
  17. Please Welcome New Prosperity Magazine
  18. Homeownership and Wealth Accumulation/Destruction
  19. Why Has the U.S.-Owned Auto Industry Failed in North America?
  20. Another Look at the VIX
  21. Friday quiz why do we overeat may 1

April 2009

  1. Housing steeplechase analogy april 30
  2. Propaganda we are complicit april 29
  3. oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith
  4. Swine flu and economy disconnect or
  5. Madoffing u
  6. China ascendant superpower or just
  7. Look out below april 23 2009 stock
  8. Obamas secret plan april 22 2009 in
  9. Why housing is not coming back april 21
  10. More on trend changes and leveraged
  11. Is financial tide about to ebb april 18
  12. Why 50 drop in housing is not bottom
  13. Titanics great pumps finally fail april
  14. Scalability gaps april 14 2009 weve
  15. Stock market poised for pause or brief
  16. Reader comments on when belief in
  17. Survival 10 when belief in system fades
  18. Meandering update april 8 2009 thank
  19. Survival 9 squeezing middle class april
  20. Survival 8 forces behind cycles of
  21. Survival 7 simulacrum and politics of
  22. Survival 6 politics of experience april
  23. Survival 5 trends and cycles of history

March 2009

  1. Survival chapter two march 25 2009 lets
  2. Three comments march 24 2009 before
  3. Survival chapter one march 23 2009
  4. Cant do spirit march 20 2009 enduring
  5. Are we rational or merely adolescent
  6. Migration of capital and human talent
  7. Return of big government and de facto
  8. End of era what isnt coming back march
  9. Reader comments march 14 2009 no matter
  10. Friday quiz inventor of web march 13
  11. Dematerialization of america march 12
  12. Could cities be safer than suburbs
  13. Trendlines in dow jones industrial
  14. Road to national insolvency march 9
  15. Wrapup comments on education factory
  16. More on education factory march 6 2009
  17. Retooling education factory march 5
  18. Thoughts on usa 1968 to 2009 march 4
  19. Hanging on or how to get through
  20. How to play oil head fake or saudis

February 2009

  1. Nationalization and semantics of
  2. Friday quiz is gold set to rise or fall
  3. Oil market update february 26 2009
  4. Collapse of complex systems iii
  5. Collapse of complex systems ii marginal
  6. Collapse of complex systems i
  7. Friday quiz feedback loops positive and
  8. Whats obvious iii some transformations
  9. Whats obvious ii this is not bottom in
  10. More on legalizing drugs february 17
  11. Whats obvious i legalize all drugs but
  12. Complacency and scalability traps
  13. Friday quiz copd and co2 retainers what
  14. Complacency and will to radical reform
  15. Media models failing february 11 2009
  16. White collar blue collar no collar
  17. Friday quiz dollars value in great
  18. Forgotten indicators is stock market
  19. Pandemic drug resistance and natural
  20. Middle class is crumbling as
  21. What wont be changing february 2 2009

January 2009

  1. Is internet really free perhaps
  2. Friday quiz fortunate 400 q how much
  3. Endgame 8 energy debt and bonds as oil
  4. Endgame 7 dollar bad money and
  5. Endgame 6 housing as shelter not
  6. Endgame 5 maintaining facade of free
  7. Rethinking nuclear power all energy
  8. Friday quiz how much gold does u
  9. Endgame 4 agriculture resource
  10. Endgame 3 end of paying work endgame
  11. Endgame 2 injury analogy endgame of
  12. More on feedback free regulatory
  13. Content and media be careful what you
  14. oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith
  15. Innovation comes in many forms at long
  16. Introducing denial journal first issue
  17. Chartist speculation djia and bank of
  18. Status report on this site several
  19. Trends for 2009 solutions abound on
  20. Trends for 2009 same old same old
  21. Trends for 2009 voluntary poverty
  22. Trends for 2009 discussion begins on
  23. Trends for 2009 generational optimism

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December 2008

  1. Trends for 2009 web dismantles old
  2. Trends for 2009 rise of informal work
  3. Trends for 2009 death spiral of local
  4. Productive and unproductive capital
  5. Whats updown with oil thank you readers
  6. Last consumerist christmas in america
  7. oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith
  8. Infrastructure and war december 22 2008
  9. Two commentaries december 20 2008 i
  10. Has capitalism failed we all know
  11. Asymmetric risk bicycles and suvs many
  12. Look at u
  13. First step triage solution to our
  14. Risk false productivity and ecology of
  15. End of leverage bogus global prosperity
  16. End of work end of affluence v
  17. End of work end of affluence iv crime
  18. Blog post
  19. End of work end of affluence ii 3 ways
  20. End of work end of affluence i
  21. End of work end of affluence december 5
  22. Adversarial culture auto industry
  23. Starvation and quiet revolution famine
  24. Real estate back to 1981 there may be
  25. Coming soon to market near you huge

November 2008

  1. Coming great depression leaving
  2. Coming great depression gaming system
  3. Coming great depression scapegoats and
  4. Coming great depression
  5. This weeks theme coming great
  6. This weeks theme trends that will stick 21
  7. This weeks theme trends that will stick 20
  8. This weeks theme trends that will stick 19
  9. Housing writedowns resisted todays
  10. This weeks theme trends that will stick
  11. Ringing bell more than music at play
  12. Crowds ignore world renowned violinist
  13. Housing buy where is real bottom second
  14. Americas social welfare state worst of
  15. Open letter to president elect obama u
  16. Re set november 7 2008 thank you
  17. Dollar discernable impoverishment
  18. Post election meanderings thank you

October 2008

  1. Healthcare rising safety net or stealth
  2. Toward re definition of middle class we
  3. Mainstream media masters of obvious
  4. Capitalisms two kinds of credit
  5. Capitalisms two kinds of credit 28
  6. Empty dreams manufactured aspirations
  7. Contrarians call for major rally now
  8. Company store debt and serfdom october
  9. Cui bono to whose benefit october 23
  10. Grief statistics culture change october
  11. 1000 foot high tsunami october 21 2008
  12. Its different this time housing
  13. Socializing sharing and learning webs
  14. Leverage points for positive change end
  15. Nature of capitalism when is bad news
  16. Imaginary worth empire of debt how
  17. Exploiting market and real revolution
  18. How to fix financial sector continuing
  19. Todays contrarian entry positives
  20. Snapback frequent contributor harun i
  21. Why housing is far from bottoming
  22. When will housing really bottom part ii
  23. Monday when will housing really bottom
  24. How long will coming depression last
  25. Coming destruction of u
  26. Why depression is already baked in
  27. Stock market limbo how low can we go

September 2008

  1. Bush paulson bernanke shock doctrine
  2. Can taxpayers actually expect profit on
  3. History in making september 27 2008 it
  4. Fantasyland ii betrayal cest rien it is
  5. What crisis
  6. Welcome to fantasyland i september 24
  7. Paulson bernanke new american fascists
  8. Mark your calendars crash of october 7
  9. For whom bell tolls homebuilders coming
  10. Looking for changes in trend as i post
  11. Liar nation finally reaping what we
  12. Election prediction electoral college
  13. Favorite line ever written and healthy
  14. China and u
  15. Principle of substitution and sit com
  16. Two failed parties real political
  17. Gold dollar and manipulation there has
  18. Advice to astute young person astute
  19. Why are we such ready buyers of
  20. This weeks theme 3p economy propaganda 04
  21. This weeks theme 3p economy propaganda 03
  22. This weeks theme 3p economy propaganda

August 2008

  1. Lowering cost structure of u
  2. Housing revolution from speculative
  3. Price of debt based prosperity slow
  4. This weeks theme next revolution moral
  5. This weeks theme next revolution first
  6. Income inequality in u
  7. Oil to 70barrel dont count on it now
  8. Saved by u
  9. Financial triage u
  10. Is housing bottoming dont bet on it
  11. Saturday quiz what sport should be 17
  12. Saturday quiz what sport should be
  13. Vicious circle of shrinking capital
  14. More on television and propaganda otm
  15. When societies watch too much
  16. Paradox of risk how limiting risk
  17. Housing crash payoff more affordable
  18. Olympic ponderings august 9 2008 anyone
  19. Police state olympics and greatness of
  20. How goes dollar correspondent cheryl
  21. Empire of debt empire of lies august 6
  22. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2008/08/u.html
  23. Should i buy or sell seven
  24. Saturday quiz what is fourth turning q
  25. Long cycles cheaper goods costlier
  26. Infrastructure and gridlock too many

July 2008

  1. Oversupply and compression how median
  2. Human cost of mal investment and empire
  3. Grand summary our empire of debt is
  4. Haiku and more on oil july 26 2008 we
  5. Is oil set to crash two views july 25
  6. Yes there will be armageddon government
  7. Housings headwinds demographics rising
  8. Are you part of elite and dont know it
  9. Oil down 16 to 130 everything wonderful
  10. Where rubber meets road i received this
  11. Is this election just more bread and
  12. Why fannie and freddie have doomed
  13. Turning profit on abandoned mcmansions
  14. Of onions and oil dont blame
  15. Chinas challenges u
  16. Why interest rates are rising and will
  17. Summer reading recommendations from
  18. Patriotic thoughts for 4th of july as
  19. Is it possible to escape consumerist
  20. Alienation nation my reference in last
  21. Good con and higher level con we all

June 2008

  1. Let banks go under sell 10 million
  2. Readers respond to survival author
  3. Art of survival taoism and warring
  4. Remnant pareto principle and you this
  5. Critique of reinventing collapse this
  6. Under hood of jim kunstlers world made
  7. Food shortages rising prices stagnant
  8. Did you get this spam too its amusing
  9. Welcome to sadr city u
  10. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2008/06/u.html
  11. Personal resilience institutional
  12. Are people smarter than media pundits
  13. Scapegoating china since blame china
  14. 25 per gallon gasoline and crazy idea
  15. Dude we are so doomed what can you say
  16. Recipe for national insolvency you
  17. Can market solve energy shortagepeak
  18. Agenda for next president i am not
  19. Obama and mccain one political junkies
  20. Could 50 of all homes end up in
  21. Sleepwalking into recession so i opened

May 2008

  1. Wishful thinking speculation and oil
  2. Very dangerous book you must not read
  3. Housing capital trap snaps shut astute
  4. Is there organization of grain
  5. Saturday quiz energy lost on
  6. Haves and have nots of time is it just
  7. How low interest rates fueled housing
  8. Energy independence is national
  9. Fulcrum of mideast readers have asked
  10. Saturday quiz small car horsepower q
  11. Future of social networking here is
  12. Mandate of heaven respectfully
  13. Housing bust and lending worst is yet
  14. Seductive illusion of incremental
  15. When long cycles and depletions
  16. Oil one last head fake it wasnt too
  17. Whats up down with rents heres my
  18. Fragility bottlenecks and brittleness
  19. Has faltering dollar reached maximum
  20. Is pessimism extreme enough to mark
  21. Inventory and foreclosures is bottom
  22. Garbage in garbage out our experience

April 2008

  1. Pride leaky boat and re design having
  2. Luckily theres delusionol tm theres new
  3. More on catching bottom in housing last
  4. Its not just peak oil its peak coal too
  5. Subprime country nation within nation
  6. Recessionary rumblings from around
  7. Worst of all possible worlds todays
  8. Curing schizophrenic immigration non
  9. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2008/04/u.html
  10. Tax day ramblings readers journal has
  11. Desperate gamble to keep up i like
  12. Cost of iraq war 3 trillion cost of
  13. Real estate capital trap for national
  14. Pareto principle triggering new
  15. Will delinquencies trigger new american
  16. Happiness is warm puppygold bar50 pound
  17. Could national sales tax replace income
  18. Look at gold as longtime readers know
  19. Wheels fall off chinas boom please note

March 2008

  1. Hades confirms hank paulson works for
  2. Saturday quiz truffauts last film what
  3. Interest rates and supply and demand
  4. That letter from irs please read it
  5. Why were in this handbasket and its 26
  6. Why were in this handbasket and its
  7. Financial centipede waiting for next 99
  8. Saturday quiz how much oil does iraq
  9. How we select topics i want to pull
  10. Generational war and our future
  11. Generational war we all lose as very
  12. Housing bubble infrastructure
  13. This old mcmansion march 2008 before we
  14. Is market setting up for huge rally
  15. Technical look at u
  16. Feedback loop of recession housing bust
  17. This just in democrats lose in november
  18. When pyramid schemes
  19. Paging doctor jack daniel i know many
  20. What public wants pills i have often

February 2008

  1. Readers commentaries due to time
  2. 2009 revenge of debt junkies here is
  3. Pushers lenders and debt junkies is
  4. What public knows longtime
  5. Are americans inherently anti
  6. Hyperinflation or deflation longtime
  7. Is market about to crash in true
  8. Saturday quiz 19th century french
  9. Ethics non issue in america i find it
  10. Systemic waste of taxpayer treasure
  11. System instability redundancy and
  12. Greed fraud and duplicity how
  13. Advice and predictions every once in
  14. Saturday quiz and more on mis use of
  15. One readers account of psychiatry and
  16. Why i hope hillary is not democratic
  17. Drugs which drive you crazy long time
  18. Media meltdown unreporting housing
  19. American empire iii imperial war and
  20. American empire ii what constitutes

January 2008

  1. American empire i did american
  2. We told ya so but so what i had to
  3. Debtreal estate orgy two metaphors
  4. Great depression or simply return to
  5. Are you on tsa watch list too does u
  6. How u
  7. Terrorism good intentions and erosion
  8. Does it really matter what currency you
  9. Introducing whine magazine every time i
  10. What are risks of hyper inflation more
  11. Stagflation epic battle between labor
  12. Inflationdeflation and purchasing power
  13. Understanding and making use of
  14. Can fragmented culture find common
  15. Is there actual race underway against
  16. Brain dead predictions about more stuff
  17. Brain dead predictions about housing

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