While everybody and their chainsaw is fixated on US federal debt, there is another type of debt that has grown just as fast, and is most likely a bigger problem… Business debt is now at all time highs and is approaching 14 TRILLION dollars in America alone. Unlike the government, private businesses don’t have the luxury of printing their own money in an emergency, and as interest rates have risen they are starting to feel the squeeze. To make matters worse most of this money hasn’t been used to make productive investments, it’s been used for “financial engineering” to make investors happy… in the short term. This trend is the result of a business strategy that can explain the stagnation of companies like boeing, intel and general electric, it’s largely responsible for increasingly unstable stock markets AND it’s also making that other debt situation much worse. Now the best part is that this has been tried many times before and people KNOW that it’s not sustainable… but that’s a problem for next quarter…
Hi. We've been told that 2025 is the year that remote working will die, despite it often being good for workers and their employers. CEOs hate it though, and they're working to get rid of it.
