The other day I used the above phrase — the canary in the coal mine — and a person said, “What does that mean?”
Canary in a cage with an oxygen bottle resuscitator. Real life thing.
Miners carried canaries in special cages into the depths of underground coal mines because the canary was more sensitive than humans to deadly gases like carbon monoxide.
If the canary died, then the miners hauled ass and, hopefully, revived the canary. Continue reading
I spent the last few days in Cashiers, North Carolina hiking the mountains and healing my soul. My favorite hike is around a chi chi girls’ camp on the shores of Fairfield Lake. It is simply the best.
The mountains were and are — for about the next two weeks — alive with color of such outrageous richness as to make one skeptical of their reality. It was a welcome respite from the storm.
This week OPEC+ at its 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held in Vienna agreed to decrease crude oil production by 2,000,000 barrels a day which will have obvious implications — bad implications — for the rising price of oil, increasing inflation, and the global economy.
Taking 2,000,000 bbl/day out of the pipeline will:
1. Dramatically increase oil prices to the $125 – 150/bbl range.
2. Add another jolt to inflation worldwide, but in particular in the United States.
3. Enrich Putler’s war machine. Continue reading
Putin will order the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine before the the end of October. Allow me to lay out the case for why it happens.
The time line looks like this:
1. Putin began to move troops onto the border of Ukraine on 21 February 2021, less than a month after Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day. Putin said these soldiers, airborne troopers, were there to “conduct exercises.”
2. On 30 August 2021, the United States conducted its incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan exposing its feckless leadership and dwindling resolve.
Russia watched carefully and Putin rubbed his hands in glee sensing the Americans (and by association, NATO) were vulnerable. Continue reading
We have had it good here in America for a long time. Pre-pandemic we had the strongest economy since before the American Revolution.
Then, the pandemic upset the apple cart, but we always thought it would return to some sense of normal and that normal was good, very good.
Vladimir Putin, in an unhinged and wildly threatening speech, informed his nation that he was calling up 300,000 “reservists” for, presumably, service in Ukraine.
There is a lot more to this mobilization to which he did not speak. Continue reading
The Gen Z worker presents a challenge to employers particularly startups and small businesses.
First, let’s define our terms:
Generation Z workers are 25 and younger
Millennials are 26 – 41
Gen X workers are 42 – 57
Boomers II are 58 – 67
Boomers I are 68 – 76 Continue reading
Today in New York, the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss Russian war crimes in Ukraine. This will be a circus.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than 5,000 Ukrainian civilians are dead at Russian hands. These are not soldiers killed in fighting; these are innocent civilians killed by Russian attacks on civilian targets. Continue reading
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