It's cliché but true: what goes up must come down. These insane-o markets do not last forever. I'm old enough to have lived through more than one boom/bust cycle with oil and gas and more than one completely nutso real estate market. People paying $500K...
Photo by me of my wild mule boy. "Well now I am not gonna do it!" I have a mule and yes, he's stubborn. The cliché of someone being stubborn as a mule rings true. A similar expression is: a hard head makes a soft @ss....
Image by Frantisek Krejci from Pixabay "'In the 58 years we’ve been running Berkshire, I would say there’s been a great increase in the number people doing dumb things, and they do big dumb things,' he said, meaning that there will be more opportunities to make money down the...
Image by Pexels from Pixabay Well. Here we go again: "There is no doubt that remote or virtual work is more efficient for white collar workers. And it may be more effective in some cases. But the tragedy of the commons may be coming into play with organizations that encourage...
[buzzsprout episode='12760014' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/1 - 5/5. ✔️"The worst of the banking situation is over." Two days later: oops, ha ha. ✔️ Somehow, in the face of so many layoffs, budget cuts, and hiring freezes, we now have an even lower unemployment rate. What an absurd...
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay "I warned you about hybrid ➡️ RTO," Redux. "Many leaders today believe that hybrid work environments are the future. They are wrong...
[buzzsprout episode='12752459' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️Making a blanket statement that remote work is "bad" and "everyone knows it" is absurd. This type of thing is opinion masquerading as fact. And it's a lousy opinion in my opinion! ✔️However: scare tactics and corporate-shill-esque op-ed pieces are pretty irrelevant because,...
Hey, tacky Bloomberg tweet, hold muh beer and watch this: -https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2023/apr/25/price-rises-nestle-profits-uk-grocery-inflation-cbi-business-live Боже мой! Just accept it, peons. Just do what you're told. Sit down, shut up, and quit disobeying. Gah. "Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, has declared that citizens and businesses 'need to accept' they are...
Image by Harut Movsisyan from Pixabay In last week's episode I talked about the work from home window and I sort of jokingly said it might be more like an Overton Window before everything is said and done. Now here we are. Elon Musk basically blew up the internet...
Image by Steve Johnson from Pixabay 3.5% unemployment rate. 2 legit open jobs for every 1 unemployed person. No one wants to work anymore. Labor shortage, ca-caw, ca-caw. 🦜 Men are all lazy and living in someone's basement refusing to work. The Great Resignation will go on forever. ...