Fuel Inflation and Airline Pilot Shortage
With Covid seemingly coming to and end, the demand for air travel had started coming back to life so much so that airlines are now passing on fuel charges and…
Retail Sales Up 3.8 Percent in January
Two interesting bits of information this week. CNBC reports that retail sales surged 3.8 percent in January. Consumer spending bounced back sharply in January as rising inflation and a post-holiday…
What If Boomers Don’t Quit?
The Wall Street Journal had a great report by Lisa Bannon on what an age 60+ workforce might look like over the next decade. We’ve been pondering this ourselves and…
Food Inflation, Rural Depletion and Vertical Farming
The Guardian is reporting that Tesco’s chairman, the UK’s largest grocer, is expecting food inflation of a whopping 5% for 2022. “In some ways the worst is still to come…
Recession or Expansion?
The great debate seems to be whether we are headed in for a recession or an expansion. The latest jobs report shows more jobs added than expected at 467,000 and…
Boomer Math: y=41.228249x + 3032.9326
Do you remember high school algebra? Perhaps you were a specially smart kid and took algebra in the seventh or eight grade and already know what this formula might be:…
Inflation Through Business Eyes
Some bloggers spend their time looking at bond yields for clues to inflation and if that were your only lens to inflation, you would have been woefully wrong this entire…
Demographics and the Tough Choices Ahead To 2030
We’ve written a great deal about how 60+ million baby boomer retiring over the next decade are going to drain the labor force of productivity but what does that mean…
Germany’s Demographic Problem
A very good article from Reuters via Yahoo Finance about Germany’s ongoing demographic problem worthy of a read in its entirety. Germany’s new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified…
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…