By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
January 30, 2026
Maybe this arrangement isn't as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine.
Here's the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it's particularly striking when the WSJ published this: