The thing is: when you look at one full-time job not being enough to sustain you, the manufactured insecurity goes beyond renting an apartment or a trailer. It starts to look more like workplace feudalism + living situation feudalism = feudalism. -https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/10/26/just-getting-by-feudalism-2-0/ published on October 26,...
[buzzsprout episode='12445439' player='true'] At some point, you gotta learn the important lesson that some of the people in the media are cons. They are paid corporate shills who are directed to push a particular narrative. They are controlled opposition designed to do whatever their corporate puppet masters advise them to...
Image created by me using Canva. On September 2, 2022, I published "The Ole Corporate Blame Game" to chronicle how Corpo America was blaming remote work for, well, everything. (https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2022/09/02/the-ole-corporate-blame-game/) On September 9, 2022, I published "The Ole Corporate Blame Game, Redux" because Larry Fink was harping...
[buzzsprout episode='12432771' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 3/13 - 3/17. ✔️"FDIC official warned 4 years ago that uninsured regional bank deposits were an ‘underappreciated risk.’ No one listened and we’re now paying the price." This is a theme we hear over and again. Nomi Prins warned about this...
Image by NoName_13 from Pixabay Let's take another stroll down Memory Lane . . . "The next day, the Los Angeles Times, in an article on the Senate passage of the bailout measure, noted in passing a statement by Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman from the San Fernando Valley in Southern...
[buzzsprout episode='12419687' player='true'] "Here’s how the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history happened in just 48 hours" -https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-how-it-happened.html "Things happen slowly until they happen very fast." -Lynette Zang, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y8yh1HnA5s "If you wait to be 'officially' told something, in my opinion, you are waiting too late." -Sara Causey, repeatedly, to...
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash "Moody’s cuts outlook on U.S. banking system to negative, citing ‘rapidly deteriorating operating environment’" -https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/14/moodys-cuts-outlook-on-us-banking-system-to-negative-citing-rapidly-deteriorating-operating-environment.html As I say many, many times: if you wait to be officially told something, you're waiting too late IMO. By the time the MSM releases a story...
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash "We've done a lot about transparency in terms of resolution planning. It's all out there on the website. What we want to think about and what we're starting to work on now is how to improve transparency about our execution...
[buzzsprout episode='12327418' player='true'] I've been reading Nomi Prins' Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, which was published in 2004. (My paperback version has an update from 2006.) So the material pre-dates The Great Recession and provides an important remembrance of the insanity that was the...
Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay "The billionaire cofounder of Home Depot compares the Fed to ‘the gang that can’t shoot straight’ and says the coming crash is ‘not going to be pretty’" -https://fortune.com/2023/03/09/home-depot-cofounder-ken-langone-recession-inflation-fed-interest-rates-mistakes-economy-crisis/ No, it's not going to be pretty. "Ken Langone thinks the Fed messed up and...