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…
It’s The Boomers Stupid!
In the not too distant future, we think “It’s the boomers stupid” will become the cliche of the day. In 1992, James Carville came up with a similar phrase, “It’s…
Real Estate During Inflation
Under normal circumstances, real estate during inflationary period makes perfect sense because debt (mortgages) held against the property generally gets inflated away over time during high inflationary periods. Unfortunately housing…
Global Economic Outlook + Today’s Fed Decision
While everyone is talking about Wednesday’s FOMC meeting where the Fed announced: In addition, the Federal Reserve will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80…
The Current State of Oil & Gas Production
According to Oilprice.com, the current rig count has been steadily but slowly climbing up. The total rig count rose to 576—a figure that is 238 up from this time last…