Jackson Frandsen, CEPA®

The job market has been cooked for the past 3 years. And if you’ve been following the “official” government numbers, you’ve been lied to. The government’s data looks “fine” on paper. But the reality is that it’s all smoke and mirrors. If you want to know what’s really happening, try this: Follow the earnings reports of public recruiting and staffing companies. They only make money when these companies hire from them. So if they’re doing well, so is the job market. If they’re not doing well, then the job market is not. They are the ones that have direct contact with companies and their hiring plans. So if their clients are anticipating a solid pipeline of hiring, they’ll have a positive outlook for the next quarter/rest of the year. If their clients are frozen, they’ll have a negative outlook. Take a look at all of the major recruiting and staffing firms, look at their revenue since 2H 2022, and what you’ll see is a bloodbath.

He found five investors willing to fund his scheme. The plan was simple: send Pepsi the minimum 15 points from actual purchases, then buy 6,999,985 additional points for $699,998.50. Total cost: $700,000 for a $33 million military aircraft.

An Austrian economist would likely view the July 2025 slowdown (+73k jobs, 4.2% unemployment, downward revisions) as a market correction from prior Fed-induced distortions—artificial booms via low rates, now prolonged by high rates (5.25-5.5%). They'd criticize tariffs as government interference distorting prices and trade, advocate abolishing the Fed, cutting spending, and freeing markets to purge malinvestments for genuine recovery.

If you need 10 interviews to evaluate a candidate, you probably don't know what you need.

Deal tip of the day: When negotiating transition services (this is when seller "trains" you on how to run the business you just bought), even if the actual training is only a couple of months, make sure you negotiate for the seller to be available for the remainder of the maximum 12-month term (SBA rule). • Remaining months availability on "as needed/as requested" basis • Pay seller a respectable hourly fee Sellers rarely say "no" to this and you definitely want them to be available if things come up after the formal training period is up (and they often do).