The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail
In Indiana, hospitals can’t keep healthcare workers because Walmart is offering higher pay and lower risk. Why work at a hospital with sick patients and worry about them dying when…
BLS JOLTS: 10.6 Million Open Jobs
The BLS released the Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) for November and it shows a whopping 10.6 million open jobs. We can attest that the great resignation is still…
City Services Chaos 2022
If you haven’t heard about the labor shortage around the country then you can catch up by reading this, this, this, and this. Now that you are caught up, let’s…
US Export Prices Up 18.2 Percent
Last week, the BLS released a report on November’s US export prices which have been the highest since 1984. Of great concern were agricultural prices which were up 21.4 percent…
Labor, Inflation, Immigration, Boomers – The Perfect Storm – 2022 thru 2030
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article out entitled, “Companies Plan Big Raises for Workers in 2022” and the article essentially states what we already know, finding workers is…
Understanding The Road To 2030 and The Boomer Demographic
As we continue to review our investment strategy and how to position our portfolios for the coming 2030 timeline we have been looking at Boomer stats and data. Interestingly, CNBC…
US JOLTS Report – Is it the boomers?
Yesterday the US Jolts reported, Job openings were little changed at 10.4 million on the last business day of September. Hires and total separations were little changed at 6.5 million…
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…
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…
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…