The Causey Consulting Podcast

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 more "surprises" to come.  Links: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobs-report-and-july-4th-what-to-know-this...

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-...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/26-6/30. ✔️The recession has been cancelled. We are now in a bull market. So go back to sleep, little baby. All is well. 😒 ✔️Job cuts, corporate defaults, food costs still going up - but hey! Looky at that stock market, y'all. ✔️More flashbacks to The Great Recession.  Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/24/high-interest-rates-economic-uncertainty-boost-corporat...

I recently read Arlie Russell Hochschild's book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right . Hochschild was one of the commentators in the Essential documentary and I was curious about her book. One of the things she discusses is the idea of someone jumping the line - while people are waiting on the American Dream that gets more distant, they look for someone to bla...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/19-6/23. ✔️If you live in an area prone to natural disasters, do you have an emergency preparedness plan in place? ✔️" IMF working on global central bank digital currency platform "  BuT thAt'S a CoNSpirAcY ThEorY! 😒 ✔️Jobless claims at a high but job market still doin' great. Just a churnin' and burnin'. Right. OK. Sure. Links: https://...

By the time you write an email like the one that recently appeared on Slate.com, it's too late. Links: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/24/a-cautionary-tale/ https://slate.com/business/2023/06/remote-work-layoff-personal-finance-advice.html Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/c...

52 weeks' worth of Saturday Broadcasts and we are STILL getting breadcrumbed about a recession that hasn't "officially" started yet. Good grief.  Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/12-6/16. ✔️I'm not sure what kind of pro-state kool-aid these neolibs are drinking these days, but wow. Just wow. ✔️More anti-remote work hit pieces / pro RTO fluff pieces. ✔️How are you planning to d...

I recently watched "Essential -- A Documentary about America's Working Class and the Challenge of Income Inequality," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1eZd2hjxVs . The film explores unions, income inequality, the declaration of "non-essential" during the pandemic, etc. Key topics: ✔️At 8:54 we learn that the American economy has transitioned from 7...

  Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/5-6/9. ✔️This recession is like Brigadoon - it will one day simply rise from the mist as if from a mystical land. 😆 ✔️It's easy to say, "I'll quit and go elsewhere" when you're employed. But if you get out on this job market with no prospects, you may find out you've bitten off more than you can chew. ✔️The cronies scratch each other&ap...

"I'm breakin' rocks in the hot sun / I fought the law and the law won..." - "I Fought The Law"   Over the weekend, I watched Oliver Stone's JFK .  I'll probably always have nightmares about the physical appearances of Joe Pesci and Tommy Lee Jones, but it certainly drives home an important point: you're not gonna beat the system. You can LARP and play g...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/22 - 5/26. ✔️Lord Elon's brain chip has been approved by the FDA. What a surprise! 😒 ✔️"Entering a brutal era for housing." Yeah and a brutal era for the job market, too. That's what happens with bubbles - they pop. ✔️If it boils down to the needs of John & Jane Q. Public or the wants of Corpo America, Corpo America is gonna win.  Links: https...

I've been reporting that I think we've moved from the Opening Prologue of this mess into Act 1. These "early" warnings about a recession causing millions of jobs to vanish and how white collar workers will be hit the hardest may be the only warnings  you get from MSM sources. By the time we reach Act 2, it may be too late to adequately prepare. Do you have an RTO Survival Plan...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/15 - 5/19. ✔️The amount of conflicting news we get is just absurd. ✔️ If you like WFH, Lord Elon thinks you're a moral reprobate . ✔️Recession forecasts are hazy? WTH? Is this a recession forecast for Mars or what? Links: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/entering-the-era-of-the-big-stay-6294042/ https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/the-rto-debate-is-far-from-ove...

Key topics: ✔️ The news that small businesses are pulling back on hiring the most since June 2020 should be a major headline. Everyone needs to know this information. ✔️ Who is still buying based on Jim Cramer's advice?! ✔️Financial manipulation is a very real threat. Not everything is about obvious shows of force. https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/04/11/disposable-narratives/ https://caus...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/8 - 5/12. ✔️Are wealthy Americans hit harder or are they pulling back precisely because they don't want to go broke in the middle of this mess? ✔️Profiteering from bank failures?! Say it ain't so. 😒 ✔️The fat cats will also find a way to profit from this debt default mess. Whether The Fed turns on its fiat currency printing press yet again or we're allo...

Hopefully, none of this is a surprise to you. If it is, I imagine it's like being tossed out of a warm bed into a bathtub of ice water. Key topics: ✔️ By the time someone on an MSM outlet is "allowed" to publish anything bordering on truth, it's too damn late. Sorry. 🤷🏻‍♀️ ✔️The key is to recognize the market changes quickly and remain nimble. ✔️ It's not pleasant to ack...

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 bunch of utter nonsense. ✔️ C*v!d is over. And I guess in no way is that related to RTO, mayors asking you to crosspollinate downtown, r...

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, as I've said before, I do not think most people will sit at home unpaid to have...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/24 - 4/28. ✔️I can tell you: there are more and more conversations going on behind closed doors about layoffs, budget cuts, trimming the fat, how to spin company shrinkage in a way that doesn't scare people, etc. ✔️ Is remote work BS ? According to corpo real estate investors, LOL. ✔️Of course more people are using the gig economy. It's called survival. Links...

And other great government "solutions" to problems. 😒  Key topics: ✔️Always look for the money trail. The French say, "Cherchez la femme." Well I say, "Chercher l'argent." ✔️Looking at the AAA and how it helped industrial agriculture tells you a lot about how the system actually works. ✔️Replace the traditional family farm with giant behemoths and put industrial...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/17 - 4/21. ✔️Debt is not always about FOMO and frivolous spending. It's taking every dime most people make just to survive these days. ✔️The LARPers are the ones who will get steamrolled the worst in the coming crisis. It's sad but true, IMO. ✔️A fortune teller might be about as accurate as some of these so-called "economists." Links: https://financ...

IMO, going into a downturn in the best shape possible is to your benefit. Obviously financial health and wellness are important in an economic crisis, but I think it's also important to be in good shape physically, mentally, and spiritually as well. Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/10 - 4/14. ✔️Bankers and fat cats made huge profits in Q1, which should surprise no one.  ✔️Retailers and fast food are having layoffs and turning to automation but supposedly: 3.5% unemployment rate and hey, if you're hurting for a job, go work in fast food and retail. 😣 ✔️Where is inflation slowing? I'm certainly not seeing it! Links: https://www.cnbc.com...

Subtitled: Listen to it at your own risk.  Key topics: ✔️ This one person quit over RTO and you can, too! *said in the manner of "Champagne wishes & caviar dreams" on the old Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. * ✔️It's not 2021 anymore. The FOMO & YOLO of the markets we saw then is gone now. ✔️"Productivity paranoia" is not going anywhere. Watch that creepy, nigh...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/3 - 4/7. ✔️You are digits on a screen to Corpo America and by their own admission, they are looking for a "pretty quick payback." ✔️Wages and open jobs are cooling off yet we still have no "official" proclamation of a recession. You already know - if you wait to be officially told something, you're waiting too late, IMO. By the time they admit...