Fuel Inflation and Airline Pilot Shortage
With Covid seemingly coming to and end, the demand for air travel had started coming back to life so much so that airlines are now passing on fuel charges and…
Rural Demographics in Decline
An interesting article by Reid Wilson had an update on population demographics and the news is a bit glum since it reports that rural areas of the United States have…
Tough Choices: Prison Guards or 911 Dispatchers?
NBC News reported this week about the shortage of federal prison guards and the significant risks associated with the shortage. Watch the report here. In Denver, there is a shortage…
What If Boomers Don’t Quit?
The Wall Street Journal had a great report by Lisa Bannon on what an age 60+ workforce might look like over the next decade. We’ve been pondering this ourselves and…
Food Inflation, Rural Depletion and Vertical Farming
The Guardian is reporting that Tesco’s chairman, the UK’s largest grocer, is expecting food inflation of a whopping 5% for 2022. “In some ways the worst is still to come…
Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
In Demographics and the Tough Choices Ahead earlier in the week, we made the case that tough choices will need to be made about whether the US labor forces chooses…
Boomer Math: y=41.228249x + 3032.9326
Do you remember high school algebra? Perhaps you were a specially smart kid and took algebra in the seventh or eight grade and already know what this formula might be:…
Palm Oil & Malaysia’s Labor Problem
We’ve discussed demographics problems in the US, China, and Germany but the aging demographic problem isn’t limited to those countries. Finance Yahoo had a great article from Bloomberg on the…
Intel’s $20 Billion Ohio Plant Mistake
Intel was once an innovator in the chip industry then it lost its way and now it’s trying to make a come back but in our opinion, it’s already made…
A Sneak Peak At 2030
We recently came across a great demographic book, The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny by Bradley Schurman that dives into the demographic quagmire society will find itself in over…