Crisis Management with Fexingo: Recessions, Layoffs, and Business Survival Stories

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Crisis Management with Fexingo: Recessions, Layoffs, and Business Survival Stories

Lucas and Luna sit in the low-light war room, a crisis-status wall glowing behind them. This show is a forensic examination of how companies navigate recessions, execute layoffs, and survive existential threats — not through platitudes but through real numbers and named cases. Lucas brings the macro lens, parsing GDP contractions, unemployment spikes, and yield curve inversions from yfinance and FRED data; Luna interrogates the human and strategic side, pressing on how leadership communicates cuts, why some firms emerge stronger, and where the hidden costs of downsizing show up on the balance sheet. Each episode starts with a fresh data point — a weekly jobless claims jump, a retailer's bankruptcy filing, a central bank rate decision — and builds into a conversation about decision-making under pressure. They discuss specific case histories: how Delta handled post-9/11 furloughs, the tech sector's 2022-23 mass layoffs, the retail apocalypse of 2017, and the supply chain shocks of COVID.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Lucas and Luna sit in the low-light war room, a crisis-status wall glowing behind them. This show is a forensic examination of how companies navigate recessions, execute layoffs, and survive existential threats — not through platitudes but through real numbers and named cases. Lucas brings the macro lens, parsing GDP contractions, unemployment spikes, and yield curve inversions from yfinance and FRED data; Luna interrogates the human and strategic side, pressing on how leadership communicates cuts, why some firms emerge stronger, and where the hidden costs of downsizing show up on the balance sheet. Each episode starts with a fresh data point — a weekly jobless claims jump, a retailer's bankruptcy filing, a central bank rate decision — and builds into a conversation about decision-making under pressure. They discuss specific case histories: how Delta handled post-9/11 furloughs, the tech sector's 2022-23 mass layoffs, the retail apocalypse of 2017, and the supply chain shocks of COVID.

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