Charles Hugh Smith

We can discern cycles and waves in the past and posit them in the present, but not the outcomes. A great many phenomena follow…

Recent events call two quotes to mind, one from Napoleon Bonaparte and one from Chou En-Lai. Napoleon: “Do you know what amazes me more…

Back in 2013, I published The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy, which I subtitled The Revolution in Higher Education because the book…

We all know how this works: the business is failing and the divorce papers have been filed, but the optics are ugly, so the…

Everyone wants to lend us money now, even though they’re not banks: the insurance company Progressive offered us a loan, PayPal offers us a…

Although the progression of events over the next eight years cannot be predicted, we have enough in hand to project The Trajectory of History…

The Good News is people are realizing We’re On Our Own and starting to take action accordingly. This article describes how people in one…

Dear friends and family: I’m writing this Christmas missive while my court-appointed lawyer trades cryptocurrencies on his phone. He was recently laid off by…

Context matters, for context establishes cause and effect and what’s elevated to important / consequential. Context is tricky for two reasons: 1) we only…

I’ve endeavored to explain how self-referential models veer into hallucinations that are accepted as accurate reflections of the real world. Models are by definition…