Labor Shortage, Wages Heats Up
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how businesses in Louisville, Kentucky such as UPS are having to up the hourly wage to $20/hour to find and retain…
Is Housing Correction Starting?
Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors released their latest pending home sales data and instead of a forecast 2.2 percent the numbers came in negative 2.2 percent. Our favorite Youtuber…
A Closer Look At Truckers and Driver Shortages
The Atlantic had an excellent article written by Dariusz Matejko as told to Sonya Matejko about what one long term veteran of the trucking industry thinks the problem is with…
How Long Does It Take To Replace Professionals?
One key narrative on this blog has been about the coming “boomergeddon” where by tens of million of baby boomers will hit age 65+ in the year 2030. As a…
University Apocalypse 2025
Over the holidays we met with various families and people and discussed many topics including our favorite: demographics. One of the family members I spoke to works at a university…
Seasons Greetings!
From the team at the Econonaut, we send our warmest seasons greetings. We hope you have been enjoying our economic navigation during this past turbulent year and look forward to…
Coronavirus New World Order
We don’t think the world will be the same after Covid-19. There have been fundamental re-thinking of the supply chain and how things are manufactured, shipped and distributed to their…
Boomer Consequences: Pilots, Truckers, Nursing and More…Shortages
Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be aware of an acute nurse shortage largely caused by Covid these past two years but the problem existed years…
Cumulative Risk: 2030 Catastrophic Failure?
A news article that came out on Saturday had us thinking about total global debt which has now reached 226 trillion dollars. We wanted to take it a step further…
What’s Happening With Hourly Wages? T-Rex Will Eat First
The future of hourly wages for many workers seem to be moving up. T-mobile recently announced that it would raise minimum wage to $20/hour. Earlier in the year, Bank of…