“Major Hollywood studio Lionsgate has brought back mask mandates to nearly half its employees amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Sommer McElroy, response manager for Lionsgate/Starz, announced the new policy in an internal memo obtained by Deadline after several employees tested positive.
‘Employees must wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace,’ he wrote, according to the outlet.
Every employee also is required to perform a self-screening before arriving at work every day and must notify McElroy and remain at home if they exhibit any symptoms or have traveled internationally in the prior 10 days.
Lionsgate also will provide at-home test kits upon request, carry out contact tracing and notify ‘all individuals who have been in close contact with employees who have tested positive for COVID-19,’ according to Fox News Digital, which also obtained a copy of the memo.”
THINGS TO PONDER:
Here we go again…
Right on schedule, “the next pandemic” is being ginned up to allow for the grifts and tyrants to work their magic…
As our readers are already aware, none of the “protocols” actually worked the first time around…
Except, of course, when it came to restricting your freedom…
Get ready for a new level of that. Here’s what they actually want to get to. From the December 28, 2022 edition of Ripped From The Headlines:
Get ready for new rounds of proposed restrictions, test requirements, and whatever else they decide to try put into/add on to/force on you at The World Economic Forum Conference in Davos next month. Just Click Here to see all of the stuff evil.
“On Monday, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached 7.48%, marking the highest level since the year 2000. Even prior to this recent surge in mortgage rates, housing affordability, as monitored by the Atlanta Fed, had already deteriorated beyond the levels seen at the housing bubble’s peak in 2006. Once this latest mortgage rate surge is factored in, August 2023 will become the worst month for housing affordability this century.
The journey to this predicament can be traced back to last year’s sharp rise in mortgage rates, which escalated from 3% to over 7%. That rate surge, coupled with the Pandemic Housing Boom pushing U.S. home prices up over 40% in just over two years, deteriorated housing affordability across the nation.
‘The housing market is at a pivotal point as we head into fall. Mortgage rates are now at more than a two-decade high, and for some home shoppers, those higher rates are enough to cause them to step back from the market,’ wrote Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS, in a statement to Fortune.
‘It is likely to be a very slow fall [in the] housing market this year. Home prices, which had rebounded this summer, will dip in some markets as new listing activity increases at the same time a segment of the homebuying population sits the market out.’”
THINGS TO PONDER:
Yesterday’s “things to ponder” feels VERY fitting here:
During a recent media appearance, we made this statement:
“Just because you’ve never seen it happen before doesn’t mean it can’t, or isn’t, happening…”
This brings us to an issue that “investors” and “economists” just can’t seem to figure out:
‘Usually you get the default spikes when unemployment spikes—it’s the biggest correlation in consumer credit,’ said Clayton Triick, a fund manager at fixed-income investor Angel Oak Capital Advisors. ‘To see them go up that much while unemployment is still low is not typical.’”
This actually isn’t that hard to figure out - it’s too expensive to live, and having a job doesn’t mean you can afford things.
But these knuckleheads won’t spend 5 minutes in the real world to see that for themselves…
Keep in mind, many of those same knuckleheads ARE MANAGING YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW.
You need to be asking your resident knucklehead LOTS of questions about what’s happening with YOUR money… right now.
Know Your Foe… and Brace For Impact - it’s going to get even more bumpy.
“After puzzling for years over the sluggish U.S. rebound from the 2007-2009 recession, the Federal Reserve had a reckoning at its policy meeting in September of 2016.
Because of poor productivity and population aging, typical U.S. economic growth of 2.5% or more annually was ‘not possible anymore’ on a sustained basis, said John Williams, the current New York Fed president who at the time was head of the San Francisco Fed, according to transcripts of a session where policymakers cut their median long-term GDP growth outlook to 1.8%, continuing a roughly decade-long slide.
But when policymakers gather later this week for an annual Fed research symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that will be focused on "structural shifts," they will have to grapple with an economy in deep flux - from U.S. labor force growth that has been better than anticipated, a manufacturing construction surge, changing global supply chains, continued high inflation, and, now, hints of improving productivity.
It's unlikely they'll abandon their muted view of U.S. economic potential. Slower population growth is wired into the U.S. outlook at this point, immigration remains a politically-charged issue, and better productivity, the other key driver of growth, is hard to anticipate.
Economists at investment firm BlackRock in essays this month pivoted towards an even harsher view of what they deemed ‘full-employment stagnation,’ with potential U.S. growth as low as 1% as the baby boom generation retires, inflation remains volatile, and worker shortages persist.
THINGS TO PONDER:
There’s the quiet part out loud again…
While you’re distracted with TV pundits grifters, the people who actually make moves that impact your life, are telling you it ain’t gonna get better anytime soon… like this:
Economists at investment firm BlackRock in essays this month pivoted towards an even harsher view of what they deemed ‘full-employment stagnation,’ with potential U.S. growth as low as 1% as the baby boom generation retires, inflation remains volatile, and worker shortages persist.
And this:
But when policymakers gather later this week for an annual Fed research symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that will be focused on "structural shifts," they will have to grapple with an economy in deep flux.
Does your “financial professional” talk with you about things like this?
If not, get a new one… QUICK.
Remember, if the bomb diffuser guy is running… you should probably try and keep up.
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