Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of Two Minds has grown to thousands of posts that have logged tens of millions of page views on his site and many others such as Zero Hedge and Peak Prosperity. He is the author of eight novels and fourteen non-fiction books on socio-economic-political dynamics. He lives by Winston Churchill's dictum that "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Charles's Blog: OfTwoMinds.com Charles's Books: Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World  Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic  Money and Work Unchained