March 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the March 2024 snapshot and it’s a huge jump in enrollments. For March 2024, there were 148,000 new social security enrollees over the age of…
Labor Shortages: The Canary In The Airline
You may have heard of the “canary in the coalmine” which was a method used by miners deep inside a mine, carrying a canary, to determine if there was toxic…
Japan, Russia, Spain In Race To Hire Foreign Workers
It’s March 2024 and the western world labor shortage continues to climb unabated. We wrote about dire consequences hitting the airlines in Labor Shortage Consequences: Aviation but the problems aren’t…
Labor Shortage Consequences: Aviation
Back in June of 2023, we wrote, “Demographics and the Airline Ecosystem” where we highlighted the massive shortage of aviation mechanics in the airline ecosystem. This past weekend, there was…
New York Community Bancorp Meltdown
The big news of the day while Fed Chair Powell was testifying before Congress about potential bank pain was the meltdown of New York Community Bancorp. The stock went down…
Jan 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the January 2024 snapshot and it’s a huge jump in enrollments. For January 2024, there were 140,000 new social security enrollees over the age of…
Nvidia vs Cisco
Back in August, we wrote this post wondering if Nvidia is the new Cisco stock of the 21st century given it’s stratospheric rise so let’s take a look at a…
No Nurses, No Hospitals
We have spoken a great deal about labor shortages and the coming baby boomer demographic time bomb but today we’re going to focus on the real life consequences and impacts…
Dec 2023 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the December 2023 snapshot number so we now have a complete picture of social security enrollments for the entire year of 2023. The total enrollments…
Labor Participation Down 676,000
The big news out today was a huge drop in the labor participation out and many seemed surprised by it but we’re not sure why. We’ve been writing about the…