The Causey Consulting Podcast

 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 Big Tech bubble. Where have we seen this before . . . sounds like the late 90s/early 00s.
✔️Do you understand bank bail-ins?


Links:

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1632043244040192003

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-one-size-fits-plan-150000623.html

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-boss-sundar-pichai-says-125653701.html

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"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 we have to be careful is ignoring the collusion of Crony Capitalism. So it's not that Corpo America is blaming Powell or that Powell is blaming Corpo America. This is where I leave the neocons and the neolibs in the dust to play their partisan games of red versus blue. No, see, I think they COLLUDE TOGETHER TO ENRICH THEMSELVES. The Fed does not surprise Corpo America, nor does Corpo America surprise The Fed. They work together, IMO, to ensure a particular outcome that enriches the fat cats. If you need a refresher on this, remember all the warnings Gordon Gekko gave you about wealth transfer and greedy bankers." -https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/03/02/what/

🔮 Prediction alert: if you don't go back willingly, you will go back by force and/or total lack of other choices.


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"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 susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

"Give the public the false illusion of choice by presenting a political party or organization that superficially speaks to the desires or frustrations of the people but whose actions do not further the stated goals of the organization." -https://www.facebook.com/reform2025/photos/a.1098774270262629/1669867339819983/?type=3

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Peoples-Money-Corporate-Mugging-ebook/dp/B0041G6RTW

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/17/corporations-gave-millions-donald-trump-inauguration/98056554/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim


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 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 than the Great Recession, companies going broke ... but hey! People'r' doin' great! 😒
 

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/pfizer-mulls-30b-biotech-deal-5159137/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/buffett-optimistic-about-economy-6181674/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hybrid-work-hurting-city-eateries-6178170/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-layoffs-cerebral-poshmark-more-6157626/

https://tinyurl.com/3h5bur3t

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/challenger-job-cuts

https://tinyurl.com/4tunw9uz

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/mortgage-demand-falls-interest-rates-rise.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/new-layoffs-waymo-eventbrite-more-6157626/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/from-spac-to-bankruptcy-5561588/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/car-debt-delinquencies-are-spiking-5565060/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gm-to-cut-500-jobs-6178970/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-rates-surge-closer-to-7-170022384.html

https://tinyurl.com/4wru5yam

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/zoom-suddenly-fires-its-president-5565156/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/when-remote-jobs-becomes-hybrid-6186010/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-citi-cnet-and-more-6188026/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bankruptcy-filings-2022-company-personal-epiq/

https://tinyurl.com/43vtm8nc

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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 Потёмкинская деревня may be false, the concept itself is true. Paper over problems and put on an act to keep everyone calm.
✔️ As I always say: IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told something, you've waited too late.
✔️Negative equity, the debt ceiling, multigenerational living, nations ditching the dollar, mass layoffs . . . yet you are supposed to think a recession is still just somewhere over the horizon. SMH.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836


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"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 cats and their politicos. It does nothing to help the disenfranchised. 
✔️ Is progress merely a story we tell ourselves and then cling to?
✔️Is quiet quitting a reflection of the serfs feeling fed up? If so, do we believe this will spark a revolution against Crony Capitalism? 
✔️How many people will last in a giant walkout if they are hungry and facing eviction? This is all the more reason to me why we NEED to have these conversations rather than shoving them in the corner on the grounds of "Well, someone somewhere might get offended." Is this system not offensive itself?

Links:

 https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/the-myth-of-progress/

https://www.amazon.com/Metahistory-Historical-Imagination-Nineteenth-Century-Europe/dp/0801817617

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metahistory:_The_Historical_Imagination_in_Nineteenth-century_Europe

https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083

https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://cherokeehistorical.org/trail-of-tears/

https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/modern-corporate-wage-slavery-is-so-instilled-in-our-culture-we-dont-recognize-it-for-what-it-is-39aa9fb7b529

https://www.yahoo.com/now/back-broke-americans-racking-debt-100000378.html

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T501LHx0R_Q

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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 something is worth. This is happening in the auto market already. Do you not think it could happen again in the housing market? Wait and see.

Links:

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tip-negative-equity-iceberg-record-173000474.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/quitters-spark-the-great-return-5566316/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quiet-quitting-trend-over-140008899.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/the-fed-cant-tame-inflation-without-more-hikes-paper-says.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-cooperating-sec-probe-investment-234407660.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/new-home-buyers-are-backing-out-of-deals-why-185403276.html

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2022-12-15/california-public-utilities-commission-rooftop-solar

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-ericsson-ey-more-6157626/

https://londondailypost.co.uk/stagflation-the-labour-market-and-you/

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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 positivity is promoted and truth is suppressed that should speak volumes to you.

Links:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/10689626

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11131724

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11328447

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/11044511

https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/hyper-elites-are-desperate-for-a-recession-because-they-want-to-buy-your-assets-for-cheap-1e8800f836

Please don't rely on social media to tell you when I have posted! The algorithms are not very fond of people who aren't pacifying you into a coma these days. 
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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 with money in school — the one thing you think they would teach in America."

Is this true? Are we living in a dumbed-down culture and if so, is the education system failing people?

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/magazine/walter-mosley-interview.html

https://spyscape.com/article/pop-culture-spies-how-the-cia-fbi-shape-movies-and-tv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Mountain_Air_Force_Station


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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 get a job in a hospital or a fast food joint and all will be well. That makes no sense.
✔️More UFOs. Are we in a MindWar now?

Links:

https://tinyurl.com/yspvna69

https://tinyurl.com/2p9dy7es

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/layoffs-come-for-biotech-too-6166714/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-jobs-report-red-hot-182815798.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etO8RH4JCV0

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1624536743969185792

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/12/heres-where-the-jobs-will-be-during-the-rolling-recessions.html

https://tinyurl.com/bdezkwec

https://www.yahoo.com/now/goldman-sachs-ceo-david-solomon-230457780.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T501LHx0R_Q

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1625241477642088454

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-companies-making-cuts-6157626/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ClS8OELu1o

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/many-realtors-now-need-second-jobs-6172394/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-plans-rto-closes-hubs-6171074/

https://tinyurl.com/ycy7yz92

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/latest-layoffs-docusign-kpmg-more-6157626/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fidelity-defies-trend-hiring-4000-6173890/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/disney-staff-push-back-on-rto-5556620/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/making-sense-of-the-jobless-rate-5554620/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quiet-quitting-trend-over-140008899.html

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