ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

Music streaming giant Spotify will lay off about 6% of its workforce, Daniel Ek, the billionaire CEO of the Stockholm-based company announced Monday, becoming the latest company to dramatically reduce headcount as fears of a looming recession continue into the new year.

A Cycle-Low For Public Rectitude: Anything Goes To Maintain Democrats' Matrix Of Moneygrubbing Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Farther Along Don’t lose the plot. Embrace the suck. This is the world’s hard time, for now. The birth of anything can be a bloody horror. It can even look like death. Don’t be too afraid to see what comes on the other side of this awful spectacle. So many Americans are rooting and wishing for the Iran war to turn out badly for Western Civ. And why? Because Trump. And why? Because at the...

Jobs Shock: US Lost 92K Payrolls In February, Far Below Lowest Estimate, As Unemployment Rate Rises In our nonfarm payrolls preview, we quoted JPMorgan's Market Intel desk which said that "for this print, the stronger the better", which by implication means that a poor number would be bad. By that logic, the actual number couldn't be any worse, because moments ago the BLS reported that in February, the US lost 92,000 jobs, a huge drop from the downward revised (of course) 126K in January, and the second worst print since 2020...