U.S. Inflation – What’s up with cows?
Yesterday we took at inflation around the world and we didn’t like the numbers we saw and today the BLS released consumer inflation data and we don’t like those numbers…
Global Inflation vs National Inflation
We read a whole lot of information from a variety of sources including economic data from governments around the world, journalists and economic bloggers and the debate amongst many seems…
Demographics: Businesses Dropping College Degree Requirements
The Wall Street Journal today had an excellent article by Lauren Webber and Chip Cutter about the growing difficulty businesses are having filling open positions. The article covers things employers…
BP reports Q3 earnings
On November 2, 2021, oil giant bp reported earnings which failed to be spectacular in our opinion however the interesting news from the conference call provided some useful insight into…
The Open Economic Sea
In our first three port of calls we discussed the changing demographics of America, the projected shortfalls and surpluses of the job market in 2030 and how businesses need to…
Demographics: Farmers, Boomers and Business
We have been hard at work looking at demographic information and trying to put together a navigation and treasure map. Our goal is to find investments that will help produce…
Safe Harbor Ahead – US Treasury I-Bonds at 7.1%
In our journey to find better fortunes and grow our investment portfolio, we have found a small treasure chest ahead in the form of I series bonds. El Captitan logged…
Third port of call – Business
In our first port of call we visited the demographic landscape of the United States from now till 2030. In our second port of call, we looked at the job…
Second port of call – Labor Statistics
In our first port of call, demographics, we cautioned that the United States will face a tsunami of aging boomers that will likely retire at the age of 65. In…
Our first port of call – Demographics
As we set sail for the economic future we need to understand one fundamental thing about economics and that is that economics is about people. If the animal kingdom has…