Germany’s Demographic Problem
A very good article from Reuters via Yahoo Finance about Germany’s ongoing demographic problem worthy of a read in its entirety. Germany’s new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified…
China’s Demographic Problem
We’ve covered the American demographic problem here in various posts on this blog but the United States isn’t the only country with a demographic problem. According to this article, China’s…
Health Care Deserts and Higher Costs
The Texas Tribune is reporting on how ‘maternity deserts’ are popping up all over rural Texas and the cause isn’t covid but that certainly helped accelerate the problem. Declining populations…
What Can Search Words Tell Us? Google Trends
It is January 2022 and we are trying to figure out where we go from here. To find some clues, we took a look at some key words in google…
Another Nursing Home Files For Bankruptcy
Last week in The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail, we wrote about how QHC filed for bankruptcy citing severe labor shortage as the main cause. This week Eagle Senior…
Wage Inflation Powers on in 2022
Goldman Sachs CEO had something interesting to say recently and if this firm is having trouble retaining people then what do you think that says about hiring across America? Goldman…
Evictions Are Here, What’s The Fall Out?
Since covid began, most people have been free to skip rent payments for both residential and commercial properties but those days have come to an end so what’s going to…
Top 10 Global Consumer Trends from Euromonitor
Euromonitor released their consumer trends outlook for 2022 and it’s worth a read. You can download the full report here. A common theme across the list we think is appropriate…
Worker Strikes Across America
While everyone is aware of the great resignation of 2021 very few are paying attention to the great worker strikes across America. Let’s take a tour of what’s happening now.…
Bad Batch of December Economic Data
The latest economic news releases show a bit of bad data for December, retail sales down however with store shelves emptying out and items hard to find, it isn’t really…