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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Good morning.

    Let’s call that example the canary in the mine but I’m seeing many similar situations where I live.

    Being in a less than urban area, there is still a bit of industry around and some factories are cutting staff and a few have already shut down operations, especially in sectors more closely related with end user products (clothing, footwear, yarn, etc). Industries with ties to industrial use (metal working, construction materials, wood and derivates) are keeping afloat but only replacing workers that go into retirement or that for some reason or another just quit, and these industries, in my understanding, are keeping afloat because of the hard push into more sustainable and efficient houses, which is forcing a good deal of public investment into large renovation projects and funds.

    Parallel to this, bakeries, coffee shops, small businesses that rely on consumption, are shutting down. For me, this implies there is less money floating around.

    Paired with the hike in housing…










  • Americans: demand from your government the responsibility to handle your taxes directly.

    I’m in the EU, from a small country, and all tax forms have to be filed through government tax authority servers, running state designed programs.

    I can hire a legion of accountants, a lawyer firm and third party to represent me and still everything will still go through the same channels.

    Or I can simply use that same program, through the same website, with my secure credentials, and file my own taxes for free, calling the tax department whenever I have doubts on what I’m doing.

    demand that your taxes supply you with the government services it supports