The Causey Consulting Podcast

Subtitled: "Elite Immunity" and the Abandonment of the Working Class I recently watched "The Rise of the Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" on ENDEVR's YT channel. In this episode, I will discuss that documentary as well as Glenn Greenwald's book With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful .  Key to...

I recently watched " WORKPLACE LOYALTY IS DEAD - 10 REASONS I'LL NEVER WORK ANOTHER 9-5 JOB " and one of the comments the author makes is that the modern office is like a high school. I won't bury my thesis: I agree. Key topics: ✔️ Why have offices become this way? Why do they so often feel like introvert hell ? ✔️"Karens & Darrens" in the customer base. Backstabb...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 3/26 - 3/31. ✔️As RTO becomes clearer, we see more Johnny Come Latelys jumping on the bandwagon. 😒 ✔️Companies are talking about existential threats and laying off like it's 2008 but hey: labor market is still red hot and people are doin' great! 😣 ✔️"Paring back CapEx, paring back hiring." ✔️Attention is an important currency, too. Who are you liste...

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 sign in the window, and the manager told me, 'Well, actually, we can't afford to hire anybody right now, but we can't take the sign down for optics.&...

"When a boom cycle ends, it can be tough to accept reality. People want the band to play forever. Realtors who tried to convince us that home prices would only go up and we were not in a housing bubble are looking for work outside of the industry. Some of the people in HR trying to hype you up about the job market will find themselves in the same boat as we go further into this mess. You can...

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, you're supposed to think so. ✔️What good is a "guarantee" if it's not worth the paper it's printed on? ✔️The system is tota...

"'The Fed is facing a difficult task on Wednesday, but it is likely already past the point of no return,' JPMorgan strategists led by Marko Kolanovic, the bank’s chief global markets strategist, wrote in a note to clients Monday. 'A soft landing now looks unlikely, with the airplane in a tailspin (lack of market confidence) and engines about to turn off (bank lending).'&qu...

"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 for the body of our capitalist economy. And what happened in 2008 is all the veins and the capillaries and the arteries colla...

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 do. If you listen to them, you are doing so at your own peril. ⚠️ "It has become more and more obvious that there i...

 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 in her 2004 book . ✔️Back in January, I warned you about the historical precedent of the state taking bailout $ from Corpo...

"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...

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 late 90s/early 00s. From page 7 of the paperback: "Robert Schiller of Yale University and Irrational Ex...

 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, and collapses. Implosions in less than 48 hours. SMH. ✔️Low interest rates + hyped stock + M&As followed by a deflating B...

"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 fat cats work together to enrich themselves. "Where I think...

"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 cause's leaders. The term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as suscep...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/27 - 3/3. ✔️So which is it? Are people financing groceries and high utility bills or people are going wild on spending sprees at restaurants and car dealerships? WTH? ✔️Remote ➡️ Hybrid Hell ➡️ Full RTO. If you don't hold it, you don't own it. If you don't own the company, you don't make the rules! ✔️Increasing bankruptcies, auto defaults worse tha...

If you've ever visited a movie studio, it may have surprised you to see what the sets actually look like. In some cases, a set can merely be a small 3D model that looks good on camera. The idea of Потёмкинские деревни or Potemkin villages is similar: create a shell that looks good in order to obscure the unhappy or dangerous reality behind it. Key topics: ✔️Although the legend behind the Потё...

"Eventually, that ends with us probably leaving the planet and colonizing the stars, or living forever, or downloading our brains onto silicon chips. It’s a kind of technological rapture that sees time in a linear fashion rather than in a cyclical fashion." -Paul Kingsnorth to Emergence Magazine Key topics: ✔️Refusing to have conversations about economic slavery only benefits the fat cat...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/18 - 2/24. ✔️Some of these mansplainers and finance bros who want to convince you that up is down and left is right are gonna get steamrolled by what's coming. ✔️You're only just now being told that inflation is far from over. No duh! But you're still expected to believe that the recession is not here yet. 😒 ✔️Negative equity = when you owe more than so...

Key topics: ✔️ Who benefits from the promotion of hot air, hopium, and total nonsense? ✔️ Some influencer or wannabe influencer who gives you toxic positivity is NOT gonna show up and bail you out of an economic crisis. ✔️If someone has been in their chosen field for all of five minutes, do they have enough expertise for you to rely on what they say? (Spoiler alert: not IMO.) ✔️When toxic positivi...

On February 5, 2023, The NYT Magazine published, " Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber ." In this interview with writer Walter Mosley, Walter says, "We’re living in a dumbed-down culture because the education of most people in America is sad and not useful. There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to think. They don’t even teach kids how to deal w...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/11 - 2/17. ✔️The official narrative is now shaping up. Pandemic ➡️ Unprecedented times. ➡️ Zoom boom & WFH. ➡️ Red hot markets & overhiring. ➡️ Market is now "normalizing." ➡️ Don't worry about it because this is just a normal market correction and NOT a bubble popping or a market crashing. 😒 ✔️The MSM needs to quit LARPing that everyone can go...

"We want them to have full faith and confidence in the banking system... there's a select crowd of people that are on the institutional side and if they wanna understand this, they're gonna find a way to understand it." -Gary Cohn at the FDIC SRAC meeting, November 2022. Key topics: ✔️No more bailouts = bail-ins. Guess who the unsecured creditor is? You! ✔️Rather than using the...

In a recent video , Russell Brand jokes about robots escorting you back to your dead-end job. And it certainly made me wonder: is the future filled with dead-end jobs? Is that what we all have to look forward to? And what constitutes a dead-end job in modern times? Links: https://rumble.com/v28jtxi-here-we-go.html https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dead-end-job https://www.inde...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/4 - 2/10. ✔️What's going on with the "spy" balloon? ✔️Are bail-ins on the horizon? ✔️" You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years. " 😂 ✔️Supposedly, hiring is still robust and the menfolk are still to blame for the labor shortage. Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-milita...