Labor Shortages: North Carolina
We’re going to start a new series on spotlighting labor shortages issues on a state by state basis. We don’t think we’ll ever run out of states to write about…
Labor Shortages: Spain Approach vs UK Approach
We write a great deal about labor shortages in the United States but the problem isn’t unique to the US. The labor shortages in the UK are beginning to become…
The Fed, JOLTS and Social Security Beneficiaries
The Fed hiked a quarter point today to bring the Fed funds rate to 4.5% to 4.75% and Powell mentioned that goods inflation was coming down however services inflation is…
Demographic Consequences: School Consolidations
There is something strange and interesting happening with the growing demographic changes in America. We’ve written about the upcoming “boomerpocalypse” whereby society changes in many different ways due to lack…
Labor Shortages: Airlines Dire Straits
The music group Dire Straits has a song entitled, “Money For Nothing” and that appears to be what the airlines conjured up for last year and will repeat again this…
Healthcare Labor Shortage – One Year Later
In January of 2022 we wrote, The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail where we outlined the crisis in healthcare labor shortages competing against big retail chains for the same…
The Boomer Crisis Is Finally Being Recognized
The New York Times had an excellent article entitled, “Retirees Are One Reason The Fed Has Given Up On The Worker Rebound” which outlines the fact that many people close…
The Boomer Business Time Bomb
We’ve covered the labor shortage aspect of boomers retiring over the last year in the articles below but one aspect that we haven’t covered is the fact that Boomers own…
Oregon’s Idea: Steal Employees From Other Businesses
There is a labor shortage in Oregon and people are beginning to come to terms with It’s The Boomers Stupid! KGW8 reports that Boomers are leaving the workforce in a…
Update on Germany’s Demographic Problem
Back in January we wrote Germany’s Demographic Problem and reported on how Germany was attempting to attract 400,000 workers so how’s it going? Bloomberg reports that Germany’s problems continue to…