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Please hit the like button on whichever app you heard my podcast. Also, if you would like to support my podcast, go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge My utility bill jumped, it doubled. My friends out of California, using the same amount of energy, their utility bill jumped from $250 to $613. A lot has to do with the less amount of natural gas that was in production and could be used that drove the price up, the remaining big part of the Natural Gas Tax imposed by the Inflation Reduction Act of Joe Biden and the Congress. What do we call that? A big fat political lie. If your utilities bill to heat your home has gone up, send me an email telling me your story to: thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com BIDENS INFLATION REDUCTION TAX HIKE BILL: https://www.atr.org/list-of-biden-tax-hikes-hitting-americans-on-jan-1/ If you would like to schedule a consultation with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BROOKINGS REPORT ON DEBT CEILING: https://www.brookings.edu/2023/01/25/how-worried-should-we-be-if-the-debt-ceiling-isnt-lifted/ The debt limit caps the total amount of allowable outstanding U.S. federal debt. The U.S. hit that limit—$31.4 trillion—on January 19, 2023, but the Department of the Treasury has been undertaking a set of “extraordinary measures” so that the debt limit does not yet bind. The Treasury estimates that those measures will be sufficient at least through early June. Sometime after that, unless Congress raises or suspends the debt limit before June, the federal government will lack the cash to pay all its obligations. Those obligations are the result of laws previously enacted by Congress. “Raising the debt limit is not about new spending; it is about paying for previous choices policymakers legislated.” If you like my podcasts, please help by supporting me at: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like to have a 60 minute business consultation session, go to my website at: http://www.lodge-co.com Questions about business, send me an email at: thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PBS Sepcial on Joseph McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svUyYzzv6VI Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/wAXDHcVHkmo Please support and follow my podcast by going to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like to have a 60 minute consulting or coaching session, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Questions? Send them to: thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you like my podcasts and blogs, support me by going to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge In April I am going to do a bucket list trip from South Carolina to Alaska. I am trying to decide if I should go by train to Seattle and catch the ferry, or drive across America to Seattle and put my vehicle on the Ferry to Alaska. I would like to do the latter. However, I am going to have to get a new vehicle to do that with. I have thought about getting a small traveling van to drive in, but have you priced the costs of these vans and how many miles on one them? Van Prices - Outrages: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/574454134547470/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks So, I will have to see what I can do. The ferry ride is a five day journey, you do not stop in Canada. I have put a link on the ferry below. So, today I am taking some time to plan the trip. Alaska Highway Ferry: https://www.travelalaska.com/Getting-To-Around/By-Ferry?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkdP93vfi_AIVjrrICh1Gbgb4EAAYAiAAEgIIVPD_BwE Vlog Camera: If you vlog, I would really like to know what kind of camera system you are using. Now remember, I am old. So the make it simple for me. This is the one I am looking at. https://youtu.be/cx1KxeER7wQ Everyone needs to have a bucket list that includes travel. And don't e afraid to travel alone. You meet all kinds of different and interesting people along the way. I love hearing the stories of these people as we travel together, people you don't even know. However, you get to know people very well as you travel across this great nation. Now I have another bucket list and that is to visit all 50 states. 16 states to go. If you would like to schedule a 60 minute business consultation with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Biden Dragged: https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-dragged-touting-gas-price-drop-americans-struggle-make-ends-meet-what-planet-on Biden keeps lying about the nations economy and it has got to stop. He needs to hire better economic advisors, he needs to listen to the American people, and he needs to focus on the economy and not on a political agenda. The American people are hurting and his lies do greater harm. His financial views are now seen as garbage. If the President really wants to help the American people he should be sitting down with members of Congress and the Senate and begin negotiating on the debt ceiling and spending cuts. That would show the American people that he is doing something. But, there has to be results, not political spin. If he does nothing, then the American people can expect that the next two years will be financial hard. If you like my podcasts, please support me by going to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like some consultation time with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com and schedule on-line. Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are seeing the unethical act of wokeness that is driving unethical actions in businesses, churches and schools. This has got to end. Politics is never ethical. Political agenda's through wokeness is never ethical. We need to start teaching more about ethics, and board of directors have got to examine their ethics rules within their organizations. Politics should not be allowed one inch within organizations. Their decisions on how they are going to run their business or cancel out others though social wokeness, must end. It should no longer be tolerated. The more woke the entity, the more unethical behavior. Ethics is the ability to make decision on what is right or wrong in our human conduct. This is the belief that moral principles is vital in our every day lives. Businesses must start focusing on their ethics and eliminate politics, wokeness, from their operations. Conflict, from unethical actions, is very expensive and can destroy companies from within. I encourage all leaders to review their policies on ethics in the workplace. And government, you had better start holding those accountable that do not practice good ethical behavior. If you like my podcasts, please follow and subscribe by going to: http://buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like to sit down with me for a 60 minute session to go over business issues or conflicts, schedule an appointment at: http://www.lodge-co.com Have a business question, send it to thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Total Debt: $31.4 Trillion Annual interest paid on debt: -#1.2 trillion by 2024 Annual tax revenue: $4.9 trillion Annual Deficit: $1.4 trillion loss Projected 2023 Deficit: over $2 trillion Janet Yellen taps retirement funds to avoid breaching US debt limit. Does any of this sound like sound spending habits, good stewards of the money Americans have paid into the tax system? If this were a company, would you invest in it? Hell no. The ethical work that the Joe Biden can do is to sit down with Treasury and the members of Congress and negotiate. If you don't negotiate then we have no leadership in Washington. We just have elected people who think that it is ok to put the American people in greater debt. Perhaps it is time to shut the government down to get people to the negotiating table. This is no longer about politics, this is about working together to reduce our nations debt and curb spending. Otherwise, you can expect the economy of America to get even worse. Do what's ethical, and not what is political. If you like my podcast and would like to help support The Business Advisor, please subscribe at: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you are in business and would like to ask business questions, send them to: thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com Schedule a 60 minute consultation with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When business leaders at the WEF make statements of wokeness and try to cancel out Twitter as a business, it is ethically wrong. Richard Edelman must be held accountable for his wokeness and trying to cancel free speech. Richard Edelman, CEO of the world’s largest PR company tells businesses to “deprive [social media] platforms that spread disinformation of oxygen. Stop advertising. Pull your promotion money… The Twitter boycott has had a modest impact but the Facebook one failed.” Watch Video of CEO telling businesses, pull your ads for what he thinks is disinformation: https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1615916714293858304?s=20&t=9Bd5abMb_7CHdWFS-40CJg If you like my podcasts an would like to follow and support me, go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like to have a 50 minute business consultation session with me, go online at: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How are you using your credit cards? - https://www.inc.com/kelly-main/55-percent-of-americans-fail-this-simple-credit-card-quiz-just-3-questions-indicate-your-financial-iq.html If you like my podcast and would like to follow and support me, go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you would like to schedule a 60 minute coaching session with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Using a portable charger to charge up along the road: https://youtu.be/NOIo0hcvJC0 Recycling electric car batteries: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/17/1066915/tesla-former-cto-battery-recycling/ If you like my podcasts and would like to support me, please go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you have a business question, send it to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.com If you would like to have more access to me and need business advisory or coaching, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you like my podcast and would like to help me out, go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge If you have any business questions, send the question to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.com or set up a 60 minute consultation at: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you like my podcast, please support me by going to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge CREATING ELECTRICITY IN THE US: https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-sources-of-electricity-by-state-and-province/ If you would like to have more access to me and schedule a 60 minute session with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you like my podcast, please support me by going to: http://buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge I appreciate your help. OIL NEWS: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevrons-first-cargo-venezuelan-oil-after-license-departs-us-2023-01-10/ If you have a business question or would like for me to cover a business subject, send me a email to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.om To have more access to me or to set up a consultation / coaching session go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Great article on compliance and ethics: https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/ethics-bad-apples/ If you would like to have more access to me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com If you have a business question, send it to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.com If you would like to support my podcasts, please go to: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaellodge Lodge & Co., a business advisory and mediation firm serving all of the United States. Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

IRS TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS: https://www.irs.gov/taxpayer-bill-of-rights Have a question, send it to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.com If you would like to speak with me confidentially on a business or personal matter, schedule an appointment at: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Set goals in each of these 7 areas of your life for 2023. These come from Dave Ramsey, I liked them so much I used them to form my goals for 2023. Spiritual Financial Career Intellectual Fitness Family Social If you would like to sit down with me in consultation, go to my web site and schedule a 60 minute session with me: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have questions about business that you would like to talk to a business advisor confidentially, schedule a 60 minute consultation at: http://www.lodge-co.com If you would like more information, send an email to: thebusinessadvisor@zmail.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have a business question, issue, or would like to bounce something off another business profession, schedule a 60 minute session with me by going to: www.lodge-co.com If you would like to email the Business Advisor, send it to: TheBusinessAdvisor@zmail.com Journaling: https://gretchenrubin.com/articles/jump-start-your-habit-of-keeping-a-journal/ Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All the problems of 2022 moves over to 2023 and nothing changed for the good. instead we got new taxes $225 Billion in corporate income tax hikes which will be passed on to household, every American $74 Billion in stock tax which will hit your nest egg - 401(k)s, IRAs and Pension Plans $12 Billion crude oil tax which will increase household costs. $6.5 Billion natural gas tax which will increase household energy bills $1.2 Billion coal tax which will increase household energy bills In President and the Congress never resolved the nations inflationary problems, they just added onto it. Every single American suffers. Free excel budgeting program to get your finances under control for 2023: http://www.lodge-co.com/60minutebusinessadvice.html Click on Personal Budget Worksheet. If you want more access to me and would like to book a free 30 minute consultation with me, go to: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You would like to schedule a 60 minute consultation, confidentially, go to my website at: http://www.lodge-co.com Get bonus content on Patreon The best place to learn about business is by joining our daily business podast: https://plus.acast.com/s/the-business-advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.