You're going to want to use an oscillating tool with a bimetal cutting blade to get in under the edge of your tile there -- if you used mastic adhesive to do the backsplash, it's going to gum up quickly on the blade and you're going to need a lot of paint thinner/mineral spirits to get that off.

In the new global economy this means aggressively off shoring for repetitive tasks.

China economy causes global recession due to hits in supply chains.

The global market is crazy right now, everything is teetering on the brink and could essentially fall in either direction.

After these projects concluded and were sold, a decision was made by him in part due to financial stability (I still needed to work) created over last 2 years and cracks we began seeing in the global economy. 

Get started househacking and you'll be in a good spot regardless of what the global economy does.

Major global conference mega-locations like Vegas have already announced no conferences rest of year. 

Now they have enough global cash flow and equity from the properties to keep getting lender loans even if their income is not that high maybe 80k a year or so.Then there are the doctors, tech space people, etc. that make very high incomes.

Global warming? 

To me, it feels like you're taking a micro view (looking at the CRE market as the thing, rather than the global economy).