Me and the Money Printer

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Postcards: Somebody, Hire Us

Postcards: Somebody, Hire Us

The job market is deteriorating. Get ready for the Fed to push the market higher.

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Garrett Baldwin
Sep 05, 2024
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Dear Fellow Expat:

Hold it.

Hold it.

Wait.

Stop.

Let me interrupt.

I’m also a child of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.

I’ll never get over that period of my life.

Right now, I have a full-time job… a side hustle… and an editorial mistress for my side hustle. The government has my corporate taxes… but if my wife tried to understand it, she’d think I’m living a triple life.

People will say it’s not supposed to be that way.

But I’m a lot more comfortable because of it.

I embraced that trauma.

There used to be a time when you could diversify your investments and advance.

No more.

Now, you have to diversify your sources of income.

No single point of failure is allowed.

It’s the way the world works today.

And we have to survive.

You get one of two choices.

You complain about multiple jobs and gigs… or you embrace it.

It becomes part of our fabric.

But things are about to get a little tougher on the new jobs front.

The data came in this morning.

And the numbers aren’t good.

In the next two to thr…

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