QQQ and the Federal Funds Rate
In Predicting The Post Pandemic Stock Market Crash, we took a look at past stock market crashes trying to figure out where we are headed next. We also looked at…
Labor Choices: Insurance Agents or Pharmacists
The headline stated “$75,000 Bonus for Pharmacists” at Walgreens as a way to entice people to join the company. It’s August and while some companies, mostly in tech, have started…
Microsoft Warns of Labor Stagflation
It’s been a slow journey for corporations, governments, and people to get to the realization that the global demographic is changing and things aren’t going back to the way they…
BLS JOLTS Report – 11.3 Million Jobs Open
The BLS released their JOLTS report and it looks like there are still 11.3 million open jobs out there. From BLS.GOV: The number of job openings decreased to 11.3 million…
Green Card Company Benefits for Labor Shortages
The labor shortage has gotten so bad that companies are now offering immigration benefit services to foreign workers. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that companies like Amazon, Tyson and…
Indiana Wants Immigrant Labor To Slaughter, Process and Truck Meat For Restaurants
America is sometimes a peculiar place where in some areas, like “red” states, that have a disdain for immigrants or “replacements” as they like to call them, suddenly find themselves…
Amazon To Run Out of Workers in 2024?
We can across an article from Vox.com which states that internal studies from Amazon show that Amazon could potentially run out of workers by 2024. Amazon is facing a looming…
Walmart Can’t Find Managers Even at $200,000
The Wall Street Journal had a great article on Walmart’s struggle to hire managers for their stores. Many managers leading the company’s roughly 4,700 U.S. stores have been in their…
Top Trading Partner Inflation Check
The Federal Reserve’s favorite measure of inflation came up at a whopping 6.6 percent. From CNN: The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index increased by 6.6% for the year ended in…
Demographics: 500,000 Less Teachers
There is a teacher shortage across the United States and the problem has become worse since covid changed the teaching landscape. The Hill has an intriguing look into what some…