BLS: Inflation 8.3 Percent YoY
The BLS released August inflation report, let’s take a look: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis after…
Fed Funds vs Consumer Credit – Uncharted Territory
We like to take a look at data in different ways often magnifying or shrinking data points to try to get a better understanding of what data is trying to…
July 2022 – US Top Trading Partner Inflation Check
While inflation in the United States seems to have moderated a bit, that doesn’t appear to be the case with the top 10 trading partners of the United States. United…
Inflation Won’t Be Going Away…Plan Accordingly
In researching some investment opportunities, we realized we needed to take a look at three key data points: Fed Funds rates, 30 Year Mortgage rates, and CPI. We wanted to…
Colombia’s Digital Nomad Visa
We’ve written about possibly relocating to a lower cost country as a solution to the demographic blues the United States will reach in 2030. In What About Moving To Malaysia,…
June 2022 – US Top Trading Partner Inflation Check
Both the UK and Canada reported June inflation today. Canada came in at a whopping 8.1 percent while the UK came in at a scorching 9.4 percent rate. We did…
How Long Will Inflation Stay?
With the whopping 9.1 inflation report yesterday, we decided to take a look and try to figure out how long inflation may be here to stay. Fortunately, Finance Yahoo had…
BLS Inflation: Whopping 9.1 Percent! Ouch!
The BLS released the CPI inflation report for June and it came in at a scorching 9.1 percent! The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.3 percent…
Labor Shortages: Air Traffic Controllers
We’ve been warning about the growing crisis with a shortage of labor across the United States primarily caused by 10,000+ boomers retiring every day. We’ve written about the pilot shortage…
Health Insurance Inflation On The Way
CNBC is reporting that health insurance premiums for many people will be exploding over the next few months exacerbating an already troubling inflation issue. “The default is that the expanded…