Demographic Realities 2025
Following up to our last post on what happens during demographic death spirals there have been a few stories released that help illustrate our point. The New York Times reports…
Following up to our last post on what happens during demographic death spirals there have been a few stories released that help illustrate our point. The New York Times reports…
Reaching the 73 million milestone for social security enrollments had us researching demographic death spirals. What happens during demographic death spirals? Defining Demographic Death Spiral A demographic death spiral occurs…
The social security office released the January 2025 social security snapshot report and it shows further growth in enrolls. For January 2025, there were 144,000 net new social security recipients…
Not good. The BLS released the PPI report and it’s more bad news following the inflationary CPI report. PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - JANUARY 2025The Producer Price Index for final demand…
The BLS released a whopper of a CPI report this morning and it showed inflation flaring up again. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - JANUARY 2025The Consumer Price Index for All Urban…
The BLS released the December 2024 CPI report and we’ll let this chart speak for itself and let you decide if this is good or bad. Note that positive (deflation)…
The BLS has released the December PPI report for 2024 and we don’t think it’s good trend for inflation despite some respite. PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - DECEMBER 2024The Producer Price…
Happy New Year! It’s 2025, do you know where your labor shortages are this year? We started the year with some interesting news from three different industries. Elevators First, there…
On the heels of a hot CPI report, the BLS released the November PPI report and it’s hotter than the CPI! PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - NOVEMBER 2024The Producer Price Index…
The BLS released the November CPI report and CNBC’s Rick Santelli calls it “warm” but we call it troubling. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - NOVEMBER 2024The Consumer Price Index for All…