Articles written by Charles Hugh Smith - Benzinga

We've Decoupled, Alright--From Reality

Organized Financial Crime Is Now the New Normal

How White Collar Crime Became the "Business Model" of Corporate/State America

Headwinds for Corporate Profits

Part 11: Kylie, the Shocked Voyeur (serialized fiction)

Financialization and Crony Capitalism Have Gutted the Middle Class

Fed Has No Hammer, Uses Handsaw and Chisel to Pound Nails

As M2 Money Supply Rolls Over, the Stock Market Will Follow

The Global Economy: It's All About Increasing Leverage

Election Year 2012: Two Landslides in the Making?

Part 10: Under Protest, Ross Cross-Dresses

Snapback: Stockton, Calif. and All the Cities to Follow

The Real-World Middle Class Tax Rate: 75%

Dear Person Seeking a Job: Why I Can't Hire You

Sorry, Bucko, Europe Is Still in a Death Spiral

Part 9: Robin's Nightmare

Why The Debt-Dependent Status Quo Is Doomed in One Chart

Priced Out of the Middle Class

Some Thoughts on Overseas Investing in U.S. Real Estate

Some Thoughts on Investing in the "Bottom" in Housing