Producer Price Index 9.5 percent!
BLS released the PPI report and it shows producer price index at a whopping 9.5 percent! So much for inflation abating any time soon even with the Fed jawboning interest…
US Top Trading Partner Inflation 4.3 Percent, Trending Up
We wrote about US inflation topping out at a whopping 7.5 percent last week so we were curious about inflation with the U.S. top trading partners and the math came…
Inflation at 7.5 Percent!
The big news out today from the BLS is that inflation is running at 7.5 percent for all items measured in the index. To put this into context, if you…
What If Boomers Don’t Quit?
The Wall Street Journal had a great report by Lisa Bannon on what an age 60+ workforce might look like over the next decade. We’ve been pondering this ourselves and…
Food Inflation, Rural Depletion and Vertical Farming
The Guardian is reporting that Tesco’s chairman, the UK’s largest grocer, is expecting food inflation of a whopping 5% for 2022. “In some ways the worst is still to come…
Recession or Expansion?
The great debate seems to be whether we are headed in for a recession or an expansion. The latest jobs report shows more jobs added than expected at 467,000 and…
Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
In Demographics and the Tough Choices Ahead earlier in the week, we made the case that tough choices will need to be made about whether the US labor forces chooses…