Charles Hugh Smith

The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good…

Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death…

Black Friday refers to the accounting terminology of “in the black” (profits, gains), and “in the red” (losses). Once shoppers unleash their (supposedly) pent-up…

Of the many things I’m grateful for, let’s start with 1) a garden and 2) a library. (“Those with a garden and a library…

Public expressions of gratitude are de rigueur in America: “I’m grateful for the opportunity to…” is one of the first lines of any public…

The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic, it’s the…

This sounds like a koan, and it is. Let’s dig in. Knowledge isn’t just knowing–the ultimate manifestation of knowledge is doing–-knowing how to make,…

The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for…

Amidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40…

To the degree that the primary task in life is resolving problems, there is enduring value in understanding the nature of problems if we…