Charles Hugh Smith's Substack

Charles Hugh Smith's Substack

What If All the Conventional Models Fail to Predict What Happens Next?

The 'novel, apocalyptic situation which has now arisen' goes largely unrecognized.

Charles Hugh Smith's avatar
Charles Hugh Smith
Sep 02, 2024
∙ Paid
107
21
20
Share

A truly staggering quantity of content is aimed at predicting what happens next, a.k.a. the future, and justifies their prediction by referencing models that are presented as rock-solid predictive tools. The majority of these models are based on historical examples that have been distilled into models of "how the world works," i.e. claims that these wer…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Charles Hugh Smith's Substack to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Charles Hugh Smith
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture