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NatAlliance has a take on government layoffs. 🇺🇸

submitted 51 minutes ago • 12 comments

Elon is destroying the $TSLA brand.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Everyone hates HR departments everywhere. DOGE has become the worst of the worst HR departments.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

The good news keeps coming. It’s a shame the HHS director doesn’t believe in vaccines and DOGE just fired hundreds of CDC scientists and got rid of bird flu experts. What could go wrong?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

WSJ: "Staci White said she voted for President Trump because she wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into the U.S. Now, with widespread federal layoffs and expected cuts, she worries her family will lose their house if her partner is laid off from his government-adjacent job."

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

Hearing Georgia state (not federal) employees worried they could be soon laid off in a DOGE like rampage from state Republicans. No idea if this could or would occur. But it seems very likely these federal layoffs could hurt confidence and spending. Potentially by A LOT.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The best-run companies give generous severance pay and insurance to those they lay off -- realizing it's a failure of the employer that they had to cut costs. They give notice via HR reps in person not by email or phone, and give considerable aid to help finding new jobs. It's not done chaotically.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder, from February 25th, 2022:

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Former Fed general counsel Scott Alvarez on Trump's executive order reining in 'independent agencies' via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Recession forecast from a very well respected labor economist. It’s not the consensus on Wall Street but worth taking seriously.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Truly this is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I think much of the MSM coverage of tariffs and DOGE and the Jan. 6 pardon group has been quite good and groundbreaking. My question: Where was any of that coverage prior to November election? The actual Trump plans got relatively little coverage.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

#Musk’s #DOGE Teen member Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets

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Survey: Musk's welcome rapidly wearing out with public. Also, "Overall, 13 percent of surveyed Americans want Musk to have 'a lot' of influence on the Trump administration, while 25 percent say they want 'a little' influence and 46 percent say they want 'none at all.'" thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is the payments system that Elon Musk now has access to. Must listen with @nathantankus.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

Elon is seriously hurting Tesla’s brand $TSLA

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Red alert for financial markets. Politicize this data and we’re blind on the economy.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Egg prices are at a record, now topping $7 a dozen via @michaelmcdonough.bsky.social

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Car Prices Face $3,000 Increase as Tariffs Hit Auto Sector

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GOLDMAN: “.. We previously estimated that a long-term 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico would raise core PCE prices by 0.7% and hit GDP by 0.4%. We expect to update these rough estimates ..”

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments