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[buzzsprout episode='12513883' player='true'] Meanwhile, if you actually talk to candidates who are out on the job market, you'll have more than a few who say, "I applied all over town, and I only got one callback," or "I went in a restaurant with a help wanted...

Image by ktphotography from Pixabay This post could also have been titled: Hey, remember this, Part 2. "The 1997 new office-warming party at digital ad agency Razorfish, which allegedly featured belly dancers and Krispy Kreme donuts is remembered as one of the defining excesses of the late 1990s." -https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-the-kings-of-the-90s-dot-com-bubble-2014-8 "Free gourmet...

Image by Joe from Pixabay   "'The Oil Bubble: Set to Burst?' That was the headline of an October 2004 article in National Review, which argued that oil prices, then $50 a barrel, would soon collapse. Ten months later, oil was selling for $70 a barrel. 'It’s a huge bubble,' declared...

Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Crossover event - you can find this content on my podcast as well at: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12508509   So . . . how'd that petition go? Last year, I had a mansplainer argue with me that there's no such thing as a fake job. 😐 PPP Loans ended...

Image by mohamed_hassan from Pixabay "Mark Zuckerberg warns in layoffs announcement to prepare for a 'new economic reality' that could last 'many years'" -https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-zuckerberg-warns-layoffs-announcement-162834242.html   "Job listing website Indeed.com will cut approximately 2,200 employees, representing almost 15% of its total workforce, the company announced Wednesday. 'The cuts come from nearly every team,...

[buzzsprout episode='12512864' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 3/19 - 3/24. ✔️The whisper in the wind I heard about deposit withdrawals that I reported on in the last broadcast has proven true. ✔️You're supposed to think this is a great time to buy a house. IDK why, but apparently,...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Crossover event - you can find this content on my podcast as well at: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/12493051    If you are waiting to be officially told by some talking head or politician: Oopsy daisy, we're in a banking crisis. Oopsy daisy, we're in a financial freefall. Uh-oh,...

[buzzsprout episode='12468460' player='true'] "The most valuable asset they have is their job."  -Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Then he goes on to say that the odds of people losing their jobs is not remote. "What the Federal Reserve does is provide the blood supply...

Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay   So . . . this sounds bad. "Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the government is willing to take further action to guarantee bank deposits are safe.  She noted steps that authorities already have taken to backstop deposits and said 'similar actions could be...

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,...