Health Care Deserts and Higher Costs
The Texas Tribune is reporting on how ‘maternity deserts’ are popping up all over rural Texas and the cause isn’t covid but that certainly helped accelerate the problem. Declining populations…
Another Nursing Home Files For Bankruptcy
Last week in The Labor Battle Intensifies: Healthcare vs Retail, we wrote about how QHC filed for bankruptcy citing severe labor shortage as the main cause. This week Eagle Senior…
Wage Inflation Powers on in 2022
Goldman Sachs CEO had something interesting to say recently and if this firm is having trouble retaining people then what do you think that says about hiring across America? Goldman…
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.…
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…
Which Bubble Will Burst First?
At the start of 2022, Bonds were in a bloodbath, stocks seemingly are starting a correction and expected rising interest rates may blow the real estate bubble. We are currently…
Does This Look Like A Recession?
There is a highly anticipated Fed central rate bank coming in March or later so the conventional wisdom seems to be that it will “kill” the economy but looking at…
Feeding Frenzy For Industrial Real Estate
Wall Street Journal is reporting that CBRE is buying $4.9 billion of warehouse space from Hillwood. We are happy to see this transaction happy because it reaffirms our investment in…
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…