Your compass is supposed to be whatever the media tells you it is. If it's the stock market, that's your compass whether you're an investor or not. If it's the job market, then it's time to pump up the numbers and tell you it's the GOAT...
[buzzsprout episode='13521545' player='true'] Do you have a job loss survival plan roughed out? Please keep in mind that the govt is quietly "revising" its job numbers and backing off on how supposedly "robust" the job market was and allegedly still is. So what's it gonna take? The narrative is...
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Jim Brown, The Greatest of All Time Since 84% percent of those reading this article are too young to have seen Jim Brown play – and I saw him for his whole career – there’s no interfering with my privilege of calling him the greatest...
I have said repeated on both my blogs and my podcast that I do not believe we've truly had these unemployment rates under 4%. No way. That "data" simply did not match what I saw in real time over 2022 and 2023. I've also repeatedly said that by...
[buzzsprout episode='13459837' player='true'] There is a difference! As I have said many, many times: by the time you hear something in the MSM, you've waited too late. IMO, it's too late to meaningfully prepare by that point. More people are cluing into the reality that petitions and strikes have not reversed...
Image by Pexels from Pixabay "Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s brutal message to remote workers refusing to come back to the office: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’" -https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-brutal-110229474.html Wow. It's probably not gonna work out for you. Carrot, meet stick. I mean . . . what did you expect?...
Image by MagicDesk from Pixabay For more than a year, Goldman Sachs has tried to get its staff back in the office five days a week, with spotty success. Now, it's ramping up the pressure again, according to Bloomberg. It reports that revenue-generating employees — for example, those in...
In the absence of another lockdown - which could happen, let's not rule that out - it's not difficult to imagine hybrid transitioning to fully on-site work. According to WFH Research, "By May’23: 12% of Full-Time Employees Were Fully Remote, 59% Were Full-Time on Site,...
[buzzsprout episode='13445451' player='true'] As I've said before, IMO, if someone hasn't prepared already for an economic downturn, if they think The Great Resignation is still going on and will do so forever, they really believe 3.5% unemployment rate, there's nothing I can do. 🤷🏻♀️ I started...
Image by Peter Timmerhues from Pixabay "'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster’s 2022 word of the year" -https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/gaslighting-is-merriam-websters-2022-word-of-the-year They should just make it the word for 2023 as well. "BlackRock expects economy to flatline for a year before inflation returns in 2024. Get ready for a generational shift to ‘full-employment stagnation’" -https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-expects-economy-flatline-inflation-181733216.html Uh, OK. "In December, BlackRock’s top...