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Tag Archives: Asset Bubbles
America’s Bottom 50% Have Nowhere To Go But Down
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no. America’s economy has changed … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Big Tech, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, everything bubble, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Gig Economy, Globalization, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty
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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”. I often discuss optimization here because it offers an … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 2021, Asset Bubbles, coronavirus, Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Collapse, Oligarchy, optimization, Plutocracy, Social Upheaval, Technocracy, Vaccines
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Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Our entire economy is characterized by cartel rentier skims, central-bank goosed asset bubbles and stagnating earned income for the bottom 90%. Despite the rah-rah about the “ownership society” and the best economy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Cartels, central banks, Debt, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Stagnation, Economics, financial crisis, financialized economy, Higher Education, Housing Crisis, Precariat, rentier skims, Stagnant Wages
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What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset Bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Fossil Fuels, Globalization, income gap, Labor, Over-speculation, Stock Market, technology, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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