Misfortune vs. Carelessness
What's happening with the Bureau of Labor Statistics with recent employment data reports is an intentional, political carelessness that supports statu…
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Never Forget
Since June 4th 1989, the Chinese government has tried to erase any record of the Tiananmen Square massacre from history.
Can a Tiananmen Square mass…
The Hertz Story Isn’t What You Think
The Hertz bankruptcy is not a story of financialization by an entrenched, self-dealing management team.
It's a story of financialization by an entren…
Hateful Memes and Election Season
There's light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, and there's light at the end of the pandemic narrative tunnel. No, on second thought I think that's a…
American Idol
Take away a great performer's live audience, and you take away their source of narrative power.
That's true for American Idol. That's true for Warre…
That Old Canard
We are now in the Flooz.com phase of the "how is COVID-19 going to change the world forever" process. Be careful out there.
Through No Fault of Their Own
I, for one, am delighted to learn of the "Through No Fault of Their Own" exemption to stock market risk.
One day, and soon, there will be a reckonin…
The Miracle Max of MBS
Sometimes investors and corporate executives will beg for a miracle to bring mostly dead assets back to life. That's OK. But we don't have to give it …
The Python and the Pig
The NYC healthcare system - one of the finest in the world - is about to be slammed beyond anything they have ever seen. ER visits and patient testing…
Tick-Tock
For the first time our federal government is treating the fight against this virus like the war that it is.
Is it pathetic and sad and a corrupt betr…
The Mozilo Market
After a Countrywide earnings call in 2008, I trusted NO ONE in government or Wall Street to tell the truth about the mortgage crisis.
And that's the …
Kitchen Sink It
To receive a free full-text email of The Zeitgeist whenever we publish to the website, please sign up here. You’ll get two or three of these emails every…
Love in the Time of COVID-19
Within a few months, the reality of COVID-19 will overtake the propaganda of the CCP and their toadies at the World Health Organization, as real-world…
Options
Our social institutions require of us many songs. One of those songs is about the roots of poverty in immorality. If we're going to stop singing their…
The Promised Land!
Every once in a while, narrative-world gives you a gift that just keeps on giving. So it is with outgoing CEO Ginni Rometty's regime of despair at IBM…
Once You Buy a Prize, It’s Yours to Keep!
Outgoing IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has filed 167 SEC Form 4s detailing her stock transactions in the company.
So I downloaded and compiled all of them to…
You Had One Job
Forget about impeachment and its partisan Kabuki theater. It's a joke.
If there's some rich dude who bought his way onto that Wuhan evacuation fligh…
Pleased to Meet You, Hope You Guess My Name
It's the one thing that Donald Trump and Rachel Maddow can agree on ... "who the hell cares about the budget?"
If you don't see that every government…
The Church of the Long Now
I know, I know ... it's me being mean to Neel Kashkari again.
Sorry, not sorry. Belittlement and scorn is the only weapon we have against the creepi…
Shot, Chaser
So I downloaded and compiled every SEC Form 4 filing that former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has ever made, to answer one simple question:
How much …