Monthly Archives: May 2023

FTFP 14 – Standing Tall and Not Backing Down Amidst Manufactured Crisis

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. These are generally far more unstructured episodes.   The inspiration for the title of today’s episode comes from Brandon Cutler’s quote from his match against Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli of the Blackpool Combat …

How Unions Can Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis and Skills Gap

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform “Degree inflation” is a known major issue: https://www.tearthepaperceiling.org/the-paper-ceiling Harvard study: 69% of jobs require a Bachelor’s degree or higher, 50% of workers don’t have one 61% of employers have rejected an otherwise qualified  candidate because they didn’t have a degree A caveat: one downside of emplovers opening up who they …

Economists Say Wages Aren’t Causing Inflation, This Should Change Debt Ceiling Debate (but won’t)

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform NPR interviewed a Federal Reserve economist and an economics professor from the University of Massachusetts who explain research that indicates profits are likely driving the majority of inflation, rather than workers demanding higher wages: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-price-spiral-wage-debate Greedflation article from April: https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/ Latest debt ceiling status: Meetings on Friday between leaders postponed …