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Charles Hugh Smith  (born 1953) is an American writer and economic commentator. He is the chief writer for the daily blog site "Of Two Minds", started in 2005. He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu. Charles Hugh Smith resides in Berkeley, California and Hilo, Hawaii.

Smith has written pieces for The American Conservative and PeakProsperity.com. along with interviews at Mises Institute.

Recognition
Of Two minds blog has been listed No. 7 in CNBC's top alternative financial sites.

In 2012 the American author and social critic James Howard Kunstler named Of Two minds in a list of 12 blogs he follows: Charles Hugh Smith's blog, Of Two Minds, manages to publish keenly insightful analysis practically every day in the form of essays that tend to follow big picture themes: governance, energy, taxation, culture, electoral politics. Smith's penetrating, dogged analysis connects vast constellations of dots between the forces that are shattering late industrial economies. He apparently does it all by himself and has also produced several excellent books that form a rich matrix of understanding for anyone trying to make sense of the epochal changes coming down on us.

Non-fiction

 * Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis (2008)
 * Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation (2009)
 * An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times (2011)
 * Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change (2012)
 * Why things are Falling Apart (2012)
 * The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy:The Revolution in Higher Education (2013)
 * Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy (2014)
 * A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All (2015)

Novels

 * Four Bidding for Love (2012)
 * Claire's Great Adventure (2008)
 * Verona in Spring (2008)
 * I-State Lines, Permanent Press, NY, (2006)