We need to be real here. The Great Resignation for white collar work is done-zo and has been for a while now. At this point, I believe we're seeing a Great Backlash against it and Corpo America wants to be damn sure workers fall in line. Again, I'm...
[buzzsprout episode='12975283' player='true'] "I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun / I fought the law and the law won...
I think we can say there was a Great Resignation and now there’s a Great Backlash against it. The economy has boom and bust cycles, sure, but I think at this point, we see some CEOs really taking a sort of impish glee in punishing...
Subtitled: I'm sorry that you did, but you believed a freaking lie. Sub-subtitled: Corpo America don't care. -https://fortune.com/2023/06/06/farmers-insurance-remote-work-protests/ You remember that Tim McGraw song, "Highway Don't Care." Yeah. Neither do the fat cats and the corporate CEOs. I'm sorry, but they don't care. As I said back in January:...
Image by Erik Stein from Pixabay You know what doesn't make me feel calm? Anyone from IBM referring to a declining population. "IBM CEO Arvind Krishna points to declining populations to calm fears about AI taking jobs" -https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-points-235346538.html "IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is soothing nerves about artificial intelligence stealing jobs by pointing...
Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay Yesterday I published "A Gekko for The Great Recession" and as I did, I thought, "One day, Oliver Stone will probably make a third film about the current insane mess and we'll learn behind-the-scenes intel of the shenanigans we're seeing right...
Photo by Aditya Vyas on Unsplash In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Josh Brolin plays Bretton James, a sort of nouveau version of Gordon Gekko for The Great Recession. Although the players and the times may change, it seems the financial chicanery remains the same. Jake Moore is trying in...
-https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/main-driver-of-inflation-wage-hikes.html People asked for more money to cope with inflation and this caused more inflation. So it's the average working class person's fault. Riiiiiiiiiight. 😒 "Central bank officials around the world have said taming inflation is their top priority, but rising prices have turned out to be...
Image created by me using Canva. "We got the JOLTS data coming on through as we have been talking about, and it's coming out hot folks. $10.1 million job openings in the month of April. 9.4 million is what economists had been estimating. And it's an...
Image by Daniel Agrelo from Pixabay "Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, took a tactless approach last month to explaining life’s realities amid high inflation, saying that people should simply accept that they are now worse off than they used to be. But after resounding criticism, Pill...