Pension Scheme Forces 1000 to Retire from Ford
Finance Yahoo had an article recently which stated that 1,000 Ford employees were better off retiring to receive higher pension payouts than to remain working. We are sure that the…
Will Rail Workers Quit By The Thousands?
There are all level of labor shortages in the United States today. There are skilled labor shortages, unskilled labor shortages and everything in between. Recently Congress passed bill forcing rail…
20 Million Utility Shut Offs?
We came across an interesting article on yahoo finance that expects 20 million customers to potentially be cut off from their utilities. According to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association…
Update on QQQ & SPY Crash Comparisons
We like to periodically check the current declines in QQQ & SPY to previous steep declines such as those that occurred during the ‘dot com’ and ‘housing’ crashes so let’s…
Rail Strikes, Nursing Strikes, and more
CNN reports fifteen thousand nurses walked off the job yesterday and the issue for them isn’t wages it’s quality of life. “We are not on strike for our wages. We’re…
Slave Waged Boomers and FATFire Youth
We have written quite a bit about the demographic crisis that will hit the United States in 2030. In summary, there are 40 million or more baby boomers that will…
A Winter of Discontent and More Inflation?
In 1978 inflation was running rampant in many parts of the world. The term ‘Winter of Discontent’ refers to this period. From Wikipedia: The Winter of Discontent was the period…
Revisiting 2007-2009 Housing Crash
George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We have been thinking about the parallels between the 2008 financial crisis and the current…
XHB Forecast?
We have been busy running models on XHB and someone wondered what an XHB crash would look like if we modeled it after the 2006 crash. We thought it was…
Welcome To Eviction Country
After rent moratoriums, eviction moratoriums and all sorts of other delays to restoring the landlord / renter equilibrium, that time may finally be arriving. All over the country, evictions are…