The Causey Consulting Podcast

In 2014, Glenn Greenwald published No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State . The book became a NYT Bestseller but now, almost a decade later, does anyone care? Links: https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english https://www.amazon.com/MindWar-Michael-Aquino-Ph-D/dp/1535199563 Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingll...

On January 28th, Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen published the video "Stop Celebrating Stupidity | The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFn619GnrI . Are we celebrating stupidity? Have we descended into anti-intellectual madness these days? Key topics: ✔️ At 7:28, I believe he hits the nail on the head when he talks about the attitude of c...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 1/28 - 2/3. ✔️Layoffs and more layoffs. And no, they aren't all in Big Tech. ✔️Oil companies are raking in record profits, so hey, we got that goin' for us. ✔️The war hawks are fiending for conflict. ✔️Tons of open jobs! (Supposedly.) Now, they're in leisure, fast food, hospitality, and health care, but TONS OF OPEN JOBS FOR THE WORLD! Links: https://www.r...

I've reported for months and months that RTO was and is an inevitable conclusion, IMO. I don't agree with it, but I don't think it's fair to put out hot air and hopium just to get likes and shares. Key topics: ✔️ With more and more layoffs, how long can people hold out for a fully remote role? Let's be real here. ✔️ You're being told that remote work = bad and compani...

On January 25th, Russell Brand published the video YOU WILL OBEY . As I've said before - in my mind, living situation feudalism + workplace feudalism = feudalism .  It's being trapped, full stop . The attitude appears to be: sit down, shut up, and just do what you're told. Go back in the office, sit in the cube farm, and hush. Are you paying attention to the things that will truly m...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 1/23 - 1/27. ✔️Back in Saturday Broadcast 6 , I warned you about PIPs and employers who want to shove you out the door. Now the MSM is finally   telling you! ✔️Shadows of the 2008 housing market? Say it ain't so! ✔️More and more layoffs. We're getting weird, conflicting stories of: workers' market and tons of open jobs yet ha ha, not really. 🤦🏻‍♀️   ✔️Ar...

A market "glitch." The rich folk moving their money. Central banks buying up gold. Strap in, put on your tinfoil hat, and let's take a look at this. Because to me: it doesn't seem good. Links I mention in this episode: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/some-nyse-listed-stocks-briefly-halted-trading-after-market-open-2023-01-24/ https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/banks-see-exo...

"Zwei, drei, vier, one, two, three, it's easy to see / But it's not that I don't care, so / 'Cause I hear it all the time, but they never let you know / On the TV and the radio..." -"Der Kommissar" As I've said many times: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told something in the MSM, you have waited too late. Apparently Monday, January 23rd w...

We've nosedived right into Idiocracy. Bad news is good news. Slowcessions. Soft landings. The labor market will stay red hot and you can job hop for more money forever . . . 😵‍💫 The flow chart looks something like this: Deny there are problems and tell people that layoffs are not coming. ➡️ Even as layoffs start, turn a blind eye. Have "economists" tell the public that mass layoff...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 1/16 - 1/20. ✔️ Davos, debt ceilings, and a big ole mess. ✔️Is the job market going to "normalize" or any other soft-sounding word? I wouldn't personally count on that. ✔️Jaime Dimon is perpetually on one at this point. 😣 ✔️So in the midst of more layoffs, you are still asked to believe the unemployment rate is 3.5%. What?!? Links I discuss: https://www.l...

No, I mean, seriously: WHAT IS HAPPENING? Key topics: ✔️ Jamie Dimon walking back his prediction of an economic hurricane... Why? What has actually changed to create a sense of optimism? ✔️ The Wall Street bankers like to show up hat in hand and ask for a bailout. But what about that time when the government showed up to the bankers and asked for a bailout? ✔️ A lot of cash can fly out the door qu...

There's an old movie On Borrowed Time   in which Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays Mr. Brink, a reference to the brink of death. It seems more than one economy finds itself on the brink these days. How many are truly on borrowed time? Key topics: ✔️ People choosing between food and warmth in the winter. ✔️ "The forgotten people." ✔️"Survival for only 19 days" following a job loss...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 1/9 - 1/13. ✔️ More companies going from the carrot to the stick on RTO. ✔️The WEF will have its annual meeting next week, so I'm sure they'll come up with great solutions and truly help all of us peons. ✔️Jaime Dimon is on one. Grannies got taken in crypto? The economic hurricane he predicted is not gonna be so bad? Wut? 😐 ✔️If we just keep using words like &...

 Key topics: ✔️ Part 1 can be found here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11959824 ✔️ Stimmy checks. ✔️"Discouraged workers" not counted in the unemployment numbers. ✔️Remember H1N1? ✔️The Fed will handle it all. Just sit back and don't ask questions. Links I mention: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/stimulus-bill-turns-5-years-old-still https://www.thebalancemoney.com/discour...

The IMF and the World Bank, both of which are functions of the UN, are telling you what's on the horizon. So are the fat cats and corporate raiders. But hey - I'm sure that two-bit realtor still trying to convince you to buy an overpriced house or that hustler encouraging you to "buy the dip" is probably a more accurate resource than the power brokers who are literally communic...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 1/2 - 1/6. ✔️ Old, rich white guys say you are a whiner who doesn't really know hardship. Hmm... I'm having a massive flashback to 2008 when Phil Gramm said the same thing! We know how that movie played out. ✔️If the NFL hadn't postponed the game after Damar Hamlin's injury, that would have been the last game I ever watched. You cannot expect players...

Anytime I see some идиот in the media reassuring us that we could just never have another 2008 ever, ever again, I realize we're going to see something similar or perhaps even worse. Let's take a little stroll down Memory Lane and reexamine what that time was like and what kinds of shenanigans and chicanery happened. I think you'll find that history is repeating itself in a pretty e...

While you were mistletoe'ing and hopefully enjoying a good holiday, the power brokers were power broking. You think THEY take a break from money in December? 😆 If only.  Key topics: ✔️ BlackRock out here talking about "a new regime." Not a new economy, a new circumstance, a new challenge. REGIME. ✔️ A lot of corporate fat cats' fingers are going into some important pies. I hop...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/19 - 12/23. ✔️ So many shenanigans are going on in the job market. PIPs. Changed metrics. Lower performance scores. Relocate or quit. Keep your head on a swivel! ✔️Whether you're looking at the job market or the housing market, Q4 of 2022 looks a lot different than Q4 of 2021.  ✔️You mean forced groupthink sucks and being on constant surveillance apps is stressfu...

People who say they've never had a project go sideways or never had a client from hell are either lying through their teeth or they haven't done much business. The anagram QTIP, i.e., quit taking it personally, can help us leave the 💩 we sometimes deal with at work, at work. In this episode, I want to talk about not taking it personally as well as the freelancing pitfalls that the toxic...

Asking for a friend. 😇 As we said back in the day: eww, grody. Marc Benioff of Salesforce sent the following Slack message to employees on 12/16: How do we increase the productivity of our employees at salesforce? New employees (hired during the pandemic in 2021 & 2022) are especially facing much lower productivity. Is this a reflection of our office policy? Are we not building tribal knowled...

 Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/11 - 12/16. ✔️ Hybrid workers are the most loyal? What goofy пропаганда is this? ✔️Are remote opps dwindling away? Yep. And I have warned you this would happen for quite some time.  ✔️1 in 4 people who took out a govt backed mortgage in 2022 are now underwater? Holy crow! ✔️Lord Elon not paying rent and may back out on severance pay... Wow. Links I mention in this ep...

Regardless of the topic, when it comes to the job market, any and all problems will be blamed on working class folks. The power brokers will not blame themselves. They will twist themselves into pretzels trying to find absurd arguments about how average Americans caused this mess. It's sickening. Links I discuss in this episode: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/millions-missing-workers-making-...

But just as the market can't sustain obscene real estate prices, I don't think the job market will remain so heavily candidate-driven forever either. In the event of a recession, I think we will see the job market change much faster than if we don't have a recession. To return to my 2008 comparison, if you had a job you could even halfway tolerate at that time, you did whatever you...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 12/5 - 12/9. ✔️ So... people are shoplifting and doing "buy now, pay later" for food, yet we're also supposed to believe that people are still flush with cash. What?!? ✔️Even Jim Cramer is telling people to expect layoffs now.  ✔️More articles of men and Millennials being blamed for the current economic mess. ✔️RH CEO says, " The housing market is col...