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…
A Closer Look At Truckers and Driver Shortages
The Atlantic had an excellent article written by Dariusz Matejko as told to Sonya Matejko about what one long term veteran of the trucking industry thinks the problem is with…
Upcoming Boomer Caused Shortages 2021-2030
In attempting to find investing opportunities over the next decade, we wanted to focus on where and when shortages would arise driven by boomers. We have already seen labor shortages…
Labor, Inflation, Immigration, Boomers – The Perfect Storm – 2022 thru 2030
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article out entitled, “Companies Plan Big Raises for Workers in 2022” and the article essentially states what we already know, finding workers is…
The Future is Mental
In order to build a resilient investment portfolio, we wanted to understand the trends over the past five years in healthcare so we turned to Census data and picked up…
The Future of Work: Self-employed or Not?
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article on the current employment changes to existing work structures. Many people have quit their jobs to pursue their own personal businesses, investors…