The Causey Consulting Podcast

When CBS News reports that The Fed wants to crash the job market and INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT, it's worth taking note. "With an additional million or two people out of work, the newly unemployed and their families would sharply cut back on spending, while for most people who are still working, wage growth would flatline." In other words: a lot of people will be unemployed and those who...

And if so, is it really because of the pandemic? Not to let us down, Fortune.com gave us another gem: "The ending of the pandemic is revealing an America full of bad behaviors, in and out of the workplace." Key topics: ✔️ Is this even true? Is it true that the end of the pandemic has revealed an America full of bad behavior? ✔️ And if so, is it really because of C*v!d, or is it because p...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/26 - 9/30. ✔️ Russell Brand is moving his content to Rumble . I predicted on Saturday Broadcast 16 that he'd be slapped down and censored soon. Happened even faster than I thought. (And yes, I finally got a hype man to announce my accurate predictions. 🤣) ✔️ Home sales cooling, wages not keeping pace with inflation . . . some of the goofballs who tried to deny th...

Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ? Key topics: ✔️ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism . ✔️ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or what if the promise of that good life is totally bogus? ✔️ "An attachment to a significantly problematic o...

Recently, I read the article "Why Successful People Don’t Teach Success: Gurus, income experts, and business coaches preach personal success systems" by Jim Clair.  Unfortunately, some of these personal success systems don't actually help you achieve that success... they mostly just take your money and leave you empty-handed. Key topics: ✔️ Con artists use a formula. We can see this...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/19 - 9/23. ✔️ It's funny that these cities are telling people to have bug out bags but then at the same time acting like "nothing to see here, no big deal, no need to worry." What?! ✔️ It's also funny that the "pandemic is over" once Corpo America wanted everyone to RTO and sit in the Cube Farm again. What a coincidence. ✔️ I warned you ab...

In my 🔮 Prediction Alert: We Will See More Rip-Off Artists episode from September 8th, I talked about: "Jean Anouilh said, 'What you get free costs too much.' Touché. Sometimes what you give for free also costs too much." In this episode, I will pull the curtain back and discuss why I chose to quit the free and low cost platforms. As always: this is not advice. Just me opining...

Another prediction vindicated. Sadly. I have been warning you for months on my blog and on this podcast (as well as anywhere else that will listen) that, IMO, the labor market is being used as a straw man. Looky over here at this hawt job market ! Why, we couldn't possibly be in a recession, right? Right? RIGHT?! Now here we are. Yesterday, CNBC published the video, "Will This Recession...

Do Gooder Fatigue? 😆 Key topics: ✔️ How many managers have you had that you felt were a true breath of fresh air and a bright spot in your day? ✔️ If you made a job change during The Great Resignation was it more about money or was it because you worried about the company's ability to prioritize your emotions? I'm willing to bet it was the former, not the latter. ✔️ "Back to school...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/12 - 9/16. ✔️ Corporate America is rapidly transitioning from the carrot to the stick. No more free coffee or niceties. Git'cher butt back in that cube! ✔️ Is a white collar recession coming? *Looks around*  Is it not already here? ✔️ $1400 is the new $400.  ✔️ A slight decrease in gas prices is not nearly as impressive to me as seeing the prices of daily necessit...

On Monday, August 29th, CNBC told us, " Fewer Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck as inflation begins to ease ." Meanwhile, Jerome Powell's speech at The Fed's Jackson Hole meeting was published on August 26th and it tells a rather different story . . . Key topics: ✔️ "Inflation is easing" yet that's not what Jerome Powell is saying, nor does it re...

In the midst of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, how do we avoid the extremes? Things like total cynicism and pessimism versus toxic positivity / toxic optimism? Avoiding reality versus watching 24/7 news? In this episode, I discuss preparing for the future and setting your intentions for how you want each week to go. (Standard boilerplate here: this is not advice of any kind. Simply me opin...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/4 - 9/9. ✔️ A zero down mortgage? What could possibly go wrong! *Gestures towards 2008* ✔️ I had a disappointing experience of prices going up so fast the store employees couldn't keep up with changing the stickers on the shelves. CNN published a story about a $25 backpack being unaffordable. But oh yeah - people'r'doin great! 😣 ✔️ IMO, it's import...

Unfortunately, economic downturns create an opening for scammers. Par exemple, there are already warnings about student loan forgiveness scams popping up. In this episode, I predict that, as we see more people treading into the insane waters of coaching, we will also see more con artists trying to take advantage of the desperate. As always: this is not advice! This is me opining for your entertain...

Today is Labor Day in the US. It feels like we all need a break from the bizarre-o world we've been in lately. A pump-and-dump scheme in the stock market is when a stock is artificially pumped up through promotion. The stock is sold while the price is high and then the buyers are left holding the bag once the price drops. Does any of this sound familiar?  *Gestures broadly*  Does it not seem...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 8/29 - 9/2. ✔️ Media still on that "labor shortage!" train. 🦜 ✔️ Rich folks are spending and not feeling the pinch of inflation. Meanwhile, we're given contradictory information that everyone else is doin' better, not living paycheck to paycheck as much, yet also they are using buy now/pay later for FOOD. 🤦🏻‍♀️ ✔️ Thus far, I am batting 1000 on my...

IMO, we are in a K shaped economy. The ultra-rich aren't suffering from inflation as meanwhile, there are people who never fully recovered from 2008. So whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned Middle Class American Dream? Key topics: ✔️ As a schoolkid in the 1980s Midwest, we heard it alllll the time: as long as you behave and work hard, you can be anything! You can be an astronaut, the...

Harry Angel: Louis Cyphre . . . Lucifer . Even your name is a dime store joke. Louis Cyphre: Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Johnny... -From Angel Heart, 1987 Mephistopheles might be a mouthful in Manhattan. Or maybe Mephistopheles is already in Manhattan. For those of you in the, "We could just neeeevveerrr have another 2008" crowd, the documentary "Money, Power, Im...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 8/22 - 8/26. ✔️ "Apple employees claim they’re doing ‘exceptional work’ remotely as Tim Cook orders them back. They’re probably wrong."   WOW.  Ignore the RTO fluff pieces / WFH hit pieces at your own risk, IMO. ✔️ Most recent homebuyers feel buyers' remorse about their real estate purchases. This is another example of times when a delay in your process ca...

"The idea that 'work sucks' is everywhere. It’s been the subject of ancient philosophers, world leaders, your colleagues and even pop culture. Comedian George Carlin once quipped, 'Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.'" -From the Gallup State of the Global Workplace Report &quo...

"The sun shines And people forget The spray flies as the speedboat glides And people forget..." "Eminence Front" by The Who. Whenever I publish anything about the déjà vu the current markets are giving me, I will have at least one troll - usually either a mansplainer, corporate shill, or bot - assure me that we could just neeeevvvveeerrrr have another 2008 again. Really? The cr...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 8/15 - 8/19. ✔️ Jamie Dimon's desire to see everyone back in the Cube Farm this fall may come true. ✔️ Another real estate mansplainer tried to tell me that there is just noooooo way we could ever have a repeat of 2008. Meanwhile: Blackstone is gearing up to buy houses when the downturn happens. I mean... connect the dots. ✔️ According to Yahoo Finance, at least hal...

Agriculture is never an easy line of work. As JFK noted, "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." Farmers are expected to do more than that now. So what does this mean for you? Key topics: ✔️ Farmers have been warning people for months about food and water shortages. People in agriculture are...

I'm hearing across the board from people in the emergency preparedness community about people - irrespective of age, geography, personal situations, etc. - who want everything done for them. "Hey, could you just like rough out a survival game plan for me? K, thx!" Who is gonna do that for you? Or are there people in your life who will expect that from you  ? I saw this years ago whe...

Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 8/8 - 8/12. ✔️ The push for RTO is getting more and more obvious. ✔️ More layoffs. Risk analysts are warning businesses that food shortages could lead to civil unrest. ✔️ Gas and food prices are expected to go up even more, but hey: transitory! 😒 Links I mention in this episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11095219 https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/did-hiring-j...