What’s in This Week’s Issue…

Good morning. America’s leaders love to boast about low unemployment. Headlines celebrate a “strong job market” and business leaders talk about opportunity everywhere.

But behind those headlines is a hidden crisis.

Millions of young Americans aren’t unemployed in the traditional sense. They’ve disappeared from the system altogether. They’re called NEETs: Not in Education, Employment, or Training.

And here’s the truth: this invisible unemployment crisis is being accelerated by AI.

So this week…

• 🏆 The Big Play: How America’s invisible unemployment crisis is quietly erasing a generation

• 💪 The Power Move: How you can still make a career

• 💵 Follow the Money: Who Killed Charlie Kirk? 

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🏆 The Big Play

The biggest money power story of the week.

America’s Invisible Unemployment Crisis

At first glance, the numbers look reassuring. Official overall unemployment hovers around 4.3%. But official statistics don’t count the millions of young people who aren’t even trying anymore.

By 2024, nearly 16% of 18–24-year-olds (just under 5 million young Americans) were NEETs.

That means that because they aren’t looking for work, they don’t show up in unemployment rates.

This isn’t just a short-term disruption. It’s the start of a generational fracture in how Americans work, earn, and build lives.

To understand how it got this bad, you have to follow the chain reaction through three stages.

1. The Vanishing Ladder of Work

For decades, the economy operated on a predictable pathway: go to school, get an entry-level job, build experience, climb upward. But that ladder no longer exists:

• Research shows that up to 30% of job postings online aren’t real. They’re used to collect resumes, create the appearance of growth, or keep pipelines warm.

• 60% of jobs labeled “entry-level“ or “junior “now demand three to five years of prior experience. Roles that once served as first steps now require you to have already climbed the stairs.

• One posting can draw hundreds of applications, filtered by resume-screening AI that eliminates more candidates than it selects.

So, the system tells young workers to keep applying. But the structure is designed to reject them. That broken entry point is where the crisis starts.

And it’s here that AI doesn’t just add pressure, it removes the first rung altogether.

2. How AI Turns First Jobs into Last Jobs

Automation used to replace routine labor while creating new categories of work elsewhere.

AI is different. It’s targeting exactly the entry-level positions that once trained new workers:

• Junior coding jobs fell by double-digits in the past year, while demand for senior engineers increased. New graduates are being asked to skip directly to expertise.

• Paralegals and junior analysts are being replaced by AI tools, while senior partners and managing directors scale up their productivity.

• Call centers and retail support, once the reliable safety net for new workers, are being gutted by chatbots and automation.

The impact isn’t evenly distributed. Young workers aged 22–25 in AI-exposed industries have seen a 13% employment decline compared to older peers.

So, AI isn’t replacing all jobs. It’s replacing the jobs you were supposed to start with.

And when you remove that starting line, the entire ladder collapses. Which brings us to the long-term cost of locking a generation out.

3. How it Creates a Lost Generation

The worst part of invisible unemployment is not what happens today, it’s what happens tomorrow. And every year spent as unemployed leaves permanent scars:

• Missing just one year of early work experience can cut lifetime wages by up to 10–15%. Many never recover.

• Nurses, teachers, and tradespersons can’t afford to stay in jobs with long training periods and low starting pay. That’s also how communities end up with shortages of exactly the workers they need most.

• Online NEET subcultures transform joblessness into identity. Instead of temporary disconnection, it becomes a lifestyle.

Meanwhile, the wealthier side of society compounds its advantage.

Professionals with high-income use AI to multiply productivity, scale businesses, and build wealth. The divide grows sharper: one side is permanently excluded, the other side accelerates ahead.

By the time official statistics finally register the damage, the wealth transfer will already be complete.

This is why the invisible unemployment crisis isn’t just about jobs. It’s also about power: who gets to shape the future, and who gets erased from it.

💪 The Power Moves

Playbook for understanding the game of power.

How to Survive When the Old Pathways Collapse

The invisible unemployment crisis makes one thing brutally clear: the economy no longer rewards participation, it rewards positioning.

If you’re waiting for the old system to come back, for entry-level jobs to reopen, for politicians to intervene, and for degrees to guarantee stability, you’re betting on ladders that no longer exist.

Here’s the mindset shift that you need to make to not get left behind:

• Focus on building skills, assets, and positions that put you in demand, not at the mercy of the system.

• Don’t fight for jobs that algorithms are designed to eliminate. Build where AI makes you more valuable, not replaceable.

• Eliminate non-asset debt, build cash reserves, and create multiple income streams so volatility doesn’t crush you.

The Takeaway:

This isn’t just a labor market story. It’s a wealth transfer in real time. It doesn’t matter whether unemployment rises or falls.

All that matters is whether you’re building the new ladders or waiting for old ones that will never come back.

💵 Following the Money

Three of the wildest financial and corruption stories from around the world.

#1 - Search for shooter continues hours after Charlie Kirk killing on Utah campus

#2 - ‘War is escalating’: NATO shoots down Russian drones over Poland

#3 - Alleged Venezuelan drug boat blown up by the US had turned around

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