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✔️ ICYMI news, 9/12 - 9/16.
✔️ Corporate America is rapidly transitioning from the carrot to the stick. No more free coffee or niceties. Git'cher butt back in that cube!
✔️ Is a white collar…
On Monday, August 29th, CNBC told us, "Fewer Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck as inflation begins to ease." Meanwhile, Jerome Powell's speech at The Fed's Jackson Hole meeting was p…
In the midst of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, how do we avoid the extremes? Things like total cynicism and pessimism versus toxic positivity / toxic optimism? Avoiding reality versus watchin…
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 9/4 - 9/9.
✔️ A zero down mortgage? What could possibly go wrong! *Gestures towards 2008*
✔️ I had a disappointing experience of prices going up so fast the store employees co…
Unfortunately, economic downturns create an opening for scammers. Par exemple, there are already warnings about student loan forgiveness scams popping up. In this episode, I predict that, as we see m…
Today is Labor Day in the US. It feels like we all need a break from the bizarre-o world we've been in lately.
A pump-and-dump scheme in the stock market is when a stock is artificially pumped up thro…
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/29 - 9/2.
✔️ Media still on that "labor shortage!" train. 🦜
✔️ Rich folks are spending and not feeling the pinch of inflation. Meanwhile, we're given contradictory informati…
IMO, we are in a K shaped economy. The ultra-rich aren't suffering from inflation as meanwhile, there are people who never fully recovered from 2008. So whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned M…
Harry Angel: Louis Cyphre . . . Lucifer. Even your name is a dime store joke.
Louis Cyphre: Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Johnny...
-From Angel Heart, 1987
Mephistopheles might be a m…
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/22 - 8/26.
✔️ "Apple employees claim they’re doing ‘exceptional work’ remotely as Tim Cook orders them back. They’re probably wrong." WOW. Ignore the RTO fluff pieces / …
"The idea that 'work sucks' is everywhere. It’s been the subject of ancient philosophers, world leaders, your colleagues and even pop culture. Comedian George Carlin once quipped, 'Oh, you hate your …
"The sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides
And people forget..."
"Eminence Front" by The Who.
Whenever I publish anything about the déjà vu the current markets are giving me…
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/15 - 8/19.
✔️ Jamie Dimon's desire to see everyone back in the Cube Farm this fall may come true.
✔️ Another real estate mansplainer tried to tell me that there is just nooo…
Agriculture is never an easy line of work. As JFK noted, "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." Farm…
I'm hearing across the board from people in the emergency preparedness community about people - irrespective of age, geography, personal situations, etc. - who want everything done for them. "Hey, co…
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 8/8 - 8/12.
✔️ The push for RTO is getting more and more obvious.
✔️ More layoffs. Risk analysts are warning businesses that food shortages could lead to civil unrest.
✔️ Gas a…
In last Thursday's episode, I added the Tattletale and the Blame Gamer to the Hall of Infamy. Now I would like to add the Dictator.
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✔️ Sadly, there are plenty of companies that learned no…
On August 5th, the NY Post published, "Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home: ‘What have you reduced your life to?’"
The very first line reads, "Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks that remote work is …
Key topics:
✔️ ICYMI news, 7/31 - 8/5.
✔️ Apparently, August 2nd was the day we were allowed to know that more people are relying on credit cards and debt is crazy-high. But hey: remember when we were …
Last summer, I talked about people like Teddy the Tailgate Negotiator and Ned the Needy. In this episode, I add a couple of new ones to my Hall of Infamy: Tammy the Tattletale and Blaine the Blame G…