$80,000 Is The New Starting Salary?
CNBC has an article stating that $80,000 is the new starting salary. Here’s a quote: According to the latest New York Federal Reserve employment survey released Monday, the average “reservation…
July 2023 – Social Security Enrollments Up 132,000
The Social Security Administration publishes a monthly snapshot of social security recipients which you can find the July report here. According to the over 65 enrollment numbers, there was an…
Labor Shortages: Alaska
It is August 2023 and long gone now is the talk of “nobody wants to work anymore” because of free stimulus checks, PPP loans, or other government hand outs we…
We’re At Peak Boomer Retirements
Investor’s has a great article on reaching ‘peak boomer’ whereby the bulk of the baby boomer generation is now hitting age 65. From Investors.com: According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s…
China Demographics In News
Both CNBC and the Wall Street Journal have articles highlighting China’s demographic problem and what it means to the global community. From CNBC: China is facing a demographic problem and…
Will Forced 401k Participation Save Equity Markets?
The year 2025 seems to be a pivotal year for a variety of demographic paradigms. First, we’ve written about the university enrollment cliff in Colleges & University Death Spiral that…
Demographics and the Airline Ecosystem
Flight cancellations have been in the news this week and there is a great deal of finger pointing and blame to go around but the fundamental issue with the airline…
Labor Shortages: Aging, Behaviors & Covid
The CDC recently released research stating that long Covid is keeping at least 18% of the labor force from working. You can view the presentation below or read an article…
Colleges & University Death Spiral
In January 2022, we wrote, One Million Fewer College Students in 2022 and followed that article up with Colleges Scrambling for Students where we outlined the crisis that few people…
Fed Pause, Demographics and Inflation
The Fed did not raise interest rates yesterday and opted for a pause to collect more data before making a decision however it did suggest there would be two more…