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…
Back To Office Ultimatums? Call Their Bluff!
Fortune has a story about Roblox CEO David Baszucki issuing an ultimatum about returning to the office or get fired. The threat is laughable because they’ve been calling for return…
Texas Tapping High School Students for Water Works
They say politics makes strange bedfellows and nothing is more perplexing than a state with dire labor shortages that is impacting the distribution of a key resource like water and…
Labor Shortages: Doctors, Manufacturing, Fast Food
If you wonder where we get some of our ideas for our research, a great source is News.Google.Com and the key words: “Labor Shortage.” We check periodically to see what…
Demographic Depression
The Missouri Independent has an excellent article on the demographic crisis in the United States and asks a very important question, “Who’s going to work there?” We encourage you to…
Is NVIDIA The New Cisco?
After hours the price of Nvidia stock is $502 per share after earnings and it reminded us of another tech stock from the dot com era called Cisco. Back then…
$80,000 Is The New Starting Salary?
CNBC has an article stating that $80,000 is the new starting salary. Here’s a quote: According to the latest New York Federal Reserve employment survey released Monday, the average “reservation…
Labor Shortages: Alaska
It is August 2023 and long gone now is the talk of “nobody wants to work anymore” because of free stimulus checks, PPP loans, or other government hand outs we…
Uber & The Flash Mob
It’s summer and team members at the Econonaut decided to take some time off so we halted posting a articles but some of us are back and we come with…
Inflation Down But Not Out – Raises Galore!
The current narrative is that inflation is down and all of our inflationary problems will soon be part of the distant past but there are things happening right now that…