Top 10 Global Consumer Trends from Euromonitor
Euromonitor released their consumer trends outlook for 2022 and it’s worth a read. You can download the full report here. A common theme across the list we think is appropriate…
Worker Strikes Across America
While everyone is aware of the great resignation of 2021 very few are paying attention to the great worker strikes across America. Let’s take a tour of what’s happening now.…
One Million Fewer College Students in 2022
NPR is reporting that there were one million fewer students in college since covid began and in our opinion the situation may not improve. More than 1 million fewer students…
The Next Civil War Will Be About Labor Not Politics
If you enjoy economic blogs it is likely you enjoy reading up on politics too. We often read, and shake our head, at most of the political nonsense that happens…
Food Shortages in 2022
Both CNN and CNBC are reporting on the depletion of food stocks at most grocery stores so we went out and took a look for ourselves and we can confirm…
Retirement Portfolios By Age Group
CNBC had a nice summary of how Americans have saved money for retirement. We encourage you to click the link and read the article. We took some of the data…
Some Trucker Pay Up 40 Percent
For anyone who thinks that inflation is going away anytime soon, look no further than a recent article from FreightWaves.com by Todd Maiden that describes how Lawrence Freight is now…
China Has Their Own ‘Boomer’ Problem
We’ve written quite a deal about America’s baby boomer but China has it’s own problem with their population. Unlike the US where the problem is simply aging, China’s problem is…
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…
Is The U.S. Health Care System About To Collapse?
We like to conduct research through as many unconventional lenses as possible and to that end, we periodically stroll through different internet sites like Reddit.com to see what people are…