Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay 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, could you just like rough out a survival game plan for me? K, thx!" Who...
[buzzsprout episode='13196899' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 7/10-7/14. ✔️The big banks made money off of debt and interest rate hikes? Wowee, what a surprise. 😒 ✔️Inflation is still going up but supposedly it's going up less high, so, like, people'r'doin' great. ✔️The cracks in the job market are becoming too...
I kept thinking: a) more people would wake up to reality; and b) we would finally get some official proclamation about the recession and unemployment. Yet here I am, more than a year later, still recording those broadcasts because we've been breadcrumbed along with hot...
[buzzsprout episode='13204886' player='true'] As I've said many, many times: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told, you're waiting too late. The cracks in the foundation that have been obvious to some of us are only just now being reported on in MSM sources. Links https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/10/yes/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hidden-recession-red-flag-hidden-100000573.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-zer-sparked-quiet-quitting-160844170.html https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10776383 Links where I...
Subtitled: But you won't be Sub-subtitled: Hospitality is not the broader job market Image by StockSnap from Pixabay In the spring of 2021, I traveled to Pennsylvania to attend a graduation. Driving around the area, I was struck by all the signs in diner and fast-food storefronts seeking workers. As I...
Image created by me using Canva Yesterday, LinkedIn (finally) asked the question: "Are employers regaining control?" "The Great Resignation" has yielded to workers staying in their jobs at rates near pre-pandemic levels, The New York Times reports. That shift is changing job market perceptions and brewing a...
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Do you have a job that you secretly believe is pointless? If so, you have what anthropologist David Graeber calls a “bullshit job.” A professor at the London School of Economics and a leader of the early Occupy Wall Street movement, Graeber has written a new book...
[buzzsprout episode='13154991' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 7/3-7/7. ✔️Somehow, some way, the job market is still doin' great and wages are goin' up. 😆 ✔️Early retirees are not all wealthy and retiring to live on a yacht? Really? Who'da thunk it. (Anyone with common sense.) ✔️Global power grabs and...
It's not unreasonable to look at it this way: the stock market doesn't like the job market being so (supposedly) darn hot; the sticky inflation doesn't like the job market being so (supposedly) darn hot; so in the best interest of everyone (and by that...
[buzzsprout episode='13149633' player='true'] How can we keep a positive attitude and an expectation of good news in the midst of an economic downturn? Where's the balance between Pollyanna Sunshine versus Chicken Little? Links: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/ https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/07/02/death-by-interviews/ https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/4639328 https://www.amazon.com/Your-Erroneous-Zones-Step-Step/dp/0060919760 https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Fear-Do-Anyway/dp/0345487427 Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/ Transcription by Otter.ai. Please forgive any typos! Welcome...