What Can Search Words Tell Us? Google Trends
It is January 2022 and we are trying to figure out where we go from here. To find some clues, we took a look at some key words in google…
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…
Evictions Are Here, What’s The Fall Out?
Since covid began, most people have been free to skip rent payments for both residential and commercial properties but those days have come to an end so what’s going to…
Top 10 Global Consumer Trends from Euromonitor
Euromonitor released their consumer trends outlook for 2022 and it’s worth a read. You can download the full report here. A common theme across the list we think is appropriate…
Retirement Portfolios By Age Group
CNBC had a nice summary of how Americans have saved money for retirement. We encourage you to click the link and read the article. We took some of the data…
Some Trucker Pay Up 40 Percent
For anyone who thinks that inflation is going away anytime soon, look no further than a recent article from FreightWaves.com by Todd Maiden that describes how Lawrence Freight is now…
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…
How Long Does It Take To Replace Professionals?
One key narrative on this blog has been about the coming “boomergeddon” where by tens of million of baby boomers will hit age 65+ in the year 2030. As a…
University Apocalypse 2025
Over the holidays we met with various families and people and discussed many topics including our favorite: demographics. One of the family members I spoke to works at a university…
Boomer Consequences: Pilots, Truckers, Nursing and More…Shortages
Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be aware of an acute nurse shortage largely caused by Covid these past two years but the problem existed years…