[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...
Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay "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 If you've ever heard people in the preparedness community say, "I'd rather be 10 years too early than 10 seconds too late," this is a case in...
[buzzsprout episode='12376462' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 3/5 - 3/10. ✔️I feel like Corpo America is gonna look at people filming themselves working and say, "If you want that level of surveillance, c'mon back to the office and we'll happily give that to you." 😣 ✔️Crypto, bank runs,...
*insert meme of Thor saying, "Is it though?" here* In today's episode, I want to yet again revisit this idea of cronyism and how things that happen in politics, in the economy, in Corporate America, on Wall Street, etc., - those things are not coming as...
[buzzsprout episode='12367726' player='true'] "Work-From-Home Regulations Are Coming. Companies Aren’t Ready. The growing compliance costs of remote work could push more employers to bring workers back to the office." -MIT Sloan, https://tinyurl.com/2p9atbmh On October 27, 2022, I published the episode, "Cronyism, Collusion, & RTO: Do Not Be Naïve!" The...
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay "While recent workplace developments have mostly favored flexibility and prioritizing employee well-being, a tight labor market and wide adoption of remote work technology have forced some to a work week that has no end. On average, workers put in more hours on Saturdays and Sundays...
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay "Remote workers and freelancers are cutting back on working from home—because it’s too expensive" -https://www.yahoo.com/now/remote-workers-freelancers-cutting-back-123357206.html What form of Crony Capitalism Hell is this? You need to RTO because staying in your house is too expensive. !!! "Looking back, one of the most exciting prospects about working...
[buzzsprout episode='12329647' player='true'] "In political jargon, a useful idiot is a term currently used to reference a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause—particularly a bad cause originating from a devious, ruthless source—without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically being used by the...
Not content to settle for generational clickbait, now we need to point fingers based on gender. 😒 On November 13th, I published the article, "The poop storm is your fault" because that's where we're at. The fat cats who created this mess are NOT gonna blame themselves....