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…
City Services Chaos 2022
If you haven’t heard about the labor shortage around the country then you can catch up by reading this, this, this, and this. Now that you are caught up, let’s…
Labor Shortage, Wages Heats Up
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how businesses in Louisville, Kentucky such as UPS are having to up the hourly wage to $20/hour to find and retain…
Is Housing Correction Starting?
Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors released their latest pending home sales data and instead of a forecast 2.2 percent the numbers came in negative 2.2 percent. Our favorite Youtuber…