I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.
Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.
My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.
This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.
I can tell you this:
Apple TV has a popular show. It makes about four million on views versus ten million on production. Per episode.
For their best.
Thereâ(TM)s no money to promote it.
I used to be such a huge Google fan. My businesses spent tens of thousands a month on Google.
But now, I think I spend $19.99 a month on Google. Maybe. I need to cut that off.
I don't use gmail anymore. I haven't used google search in forever. I am using Chrome right now but need to replace it.
Who uses Google anymore? For anything?
Not anymore.
I have merchant accounts and I absolutely can offer cash discounts today.
Higher interest rates would be better for the economy long term as folks save instead of borrow.
High interest rates encourage people to save, and savings creates more secure jobs.
Low interest rates cause malinvestments and create false jobs.
Read Mises, Rothbard about the business cycle. Itâ(TM)s all because of low rates and bad investments.
High interest rates = low inflation, jackass.
High interest rates = higher savings rates = eventually you fix the business cycle that inflation and low interest rates causes.
Read some Mises and Rothbard.
I have no empathy for people who put all their eggs into one basket.
6 months emergency savings in a local bank. Rolling 12 month CD ladder. 401K or IRA in a three fund portfolio. By age 25 anyone making mid-high 5 figures can have a year of income saved, but instead they want tattoos and nice cars and big apartments and every concert memory.
No empathy for slaughtering yourself.
50s here, very high income earner. Never stable income but when it comes, it is big.
I also always saved 10 to 20 percent of my income since my teen years so a firing has no real negative outcome.
My peers and colleagues save poorly to comical effect. When you make six figures you can save five figures and the growth in savings is huge over ten years and twenty years.
I have no tears for my peers and colleagues who refuse to save. Refuse.
I did not vote for nor support Trump. But half of America voted against Obama style policies.
It had little to do with Trump.
â¦an outdated attempt at more statism.
Seriously, we donâ(TM)t need IP âoerightsâ anymore.
Those two in Wisconsin made violent threats against life.
That one in NYC made violent threats against life.
In both cases, the killings were justified.
Shut it down.
All of this stuff is better handled locally, or state-wide. The bureaucracy of the NHTSA is mind boggling, and the fact that folks look at their headline name but never what they actually do all year long doesn't surprise me.
"What about the children!" has never prefaced citizen safety or well being.
You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. - Nicklaus Wirth
