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AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today
The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative…
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What Is Success? What Is Failure? Why It Matters
If we say success is completing the project we set out to complete, then success is within reach of everyone.
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Here's Why Consumer Sentiment Is at Record Lows
The truth few dare to recognize is there is no credible evidence that housing and having a family will return to being affordable for the majority in…
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Why Is Consumer Sentiment at Record Lows?
Consumer sentiment is at record lows because there is zero visibility on any real-world trends that would be positive for the bottom 90%. Vague promises…
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The Overstuffed Freezer Analogy
So we as a nation are waiting for the system to break down so we're forced to empty the overstuffed freezer and start over.
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Could Instability Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?
In the conventional telling, ours is a system of innovation, growth and opportunity. The reality is the opposite.
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2:17
What Would Trigger Radical Change In Your Life?
What would trigger radical change in our own life? A health crisis offers an analogy many of us have experienced.
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Charles Hugh Smith's Substack
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